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Here’s the source article… “Garrett Crochet headlines star-studded MLB trade market“

Think there may be a cynical reason for that? 🤣

Getz should have kept his signing a secret and announced it as a surprise at SoxFest.

Just looked him up. Looks like a good move on paper. A younger lefty power bat 1B… Maybe he can be everything Sheets failed to be! But he did go to Mount Carmel… 👎🏻🤣

Sounds like he’s back to normal now. He thinks it came from something he ate. I can understand the Phillies not wanting to pay him ~$6.5 million via arbitration though. https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/mlb/philadelphia-phillies/phillies-news/austin-hays-kidney-infection-phillies-playoff-roster/616260/?amp=1

Maybe not in our eyes, but I think Getz will want to try to show everyone why he acquired them.

Would’ve been good had Getz not already pounced on his #1 target. He’ll pass cuz he already has his savior Austin “The Slayer” Slater.

Why you don’t jump to sign scrubs early… Younger, better, and hits lefties as well.

I can’t believe anyone would actually pay to go to SuckFest.

In the future? By not acquiring horrible players in the first place. But obviously it’s too late for Getz to undo his bad moves from last year and he has to play these bums.

I think they will spend more on pitching but I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the biggest bat they sign. Getz still has to try to prove out that the bums he acquired last year (Vargas and Fletcher) are major leaguers.

I just think it’s sad. Slater will be yet another guy that will be lucky to finish the season as a White Sox. Chances are he will be DFA and playing for another team before the end of the season and we will be trying to forget he ever existed.

He did look good for awhile but dude can simply not hit at all. He’s a Tasmanian Devil typhoon strikeout machine.

No GM should have to say such a thing to a veteran scrub who put up a .586 OPS and -0.2 WAR last year. It just proves more of the same from last offseason — that Getz values bad players. That negative WAR sure looks familiar to most of the players he acquired last year.

Top Targets for Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, Blue Jays: #1 - Juan Soto : #97 - Austin Slater Top Targets for White Sox: #1 - Austin Slater : #When hell freezes over - Juan Soto

Good lord, Getz truly is an embarrassment. He’s the perfect GM for Jerry’s thrifty ways and his pathetic team.

I guess I was overdoing it by including Sale. But I think he has big tall lanky lefty ace potential, like Crochet.

He’s at #16 on the 2017 list, but I don’t know the timing/date of this list in 2017.

I actually do think it will be a massive disappointment if Schultz doesn’t somewhat follow in the footsteps of Sale and Crochet. I think it will be due to injury if he doesn’t succeed.

He was ranked as high as #11 in the MLB’s top 100 prospects. I agree there were some ref flags but a prospect with a ranking that high is usually expected to be an ace. https://www.milb.com/news/yoan-moncada-michael-kopech-headed-to-futures-game-239471812 EDIT: He was actually ranked #10 in 2018.

Kenny and Hahn were master shovelers for years. They had the biggest and best plows in the shoveling business.

In hindsight, yes. But at the time of the Sale trade, Kopech was supposed to be the super ace. Also, if Abreu is involved in a Crochet trade, I wouldn’t be surprised if he is the headliner and none of the additional prospects the Sox receive in addition are from the Red Sox top 4.

5 years of control rather than 6 from a top prospect. Already turning 26 in June. Obviously he can improve but right now he’s a just under .800 OPS guy. Fairly high strikeout rate. Definitely a nice player but the Sox need to hit on a star, or at least closer to a star than Abreu.

It was a “Player Development Affiliate Intern” job posting on FanGraphs… https://blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/job-posting-chicago-white-sox-player-development-affiliate-intern-3/

No specific Crochet mention, but more talk about the Red Sox trading Wilyer Abreu…