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I posted right when Bart was DFA that he would be a great replacement for Maldonado. See below.

Joey Bart, a 27 year old catcher with an .820 OPS. Getz could have acquired him for a song when the Giants DFA him. Getz decided to stick with Maldonado.

Chad Kuhl sucks. Who knew?!?

On the positive side, he may not go deep into double-digit losses now.

I don’t. He was paid well by Hahn to barely play and suck during the rare times that he actually does.

You think those two additional players would have accounted for 25 to 30 more wins to make this awful team competitive? Thank God JR stopped responding to your letters with your offer to be the Sox GM. You would be worse than Hahn and Getz combined.

What a job by Jerry and our new GM! You’d have to actually try to be this bad and lose this many games and yet Getz still managed to do it, even with his stellar offseason! “HISTORY!!!”

Multiple $100 million dollar contracts? It’s not happening. It will be one of those contracts, perhaps another big contract but no where near $100 million, and a bunch of dumpster diving in between when they are competitive again.

Drinking several Allagash White’s while grilling steak and Mahi Mahi fillets.

CWS has a nice idea of packaging Flexen with Crochet to a team. The team could offload most of Crochet’s innings to Flexen until the playoffs.

Remember when Sheets appeared to have improved his hitting earlier this season? Current Line: .224 / .315 / .379 / .694 Career Line: .228 / .297 / .395 / .692 Sheets, you are who we thought you were.

Now imagine when almost every talented and tradable player is removed from this team. That is when they are truly going to challenge that 2003 Tigers record.

Don’t give up. Keep drinking. You do your best work on the sauce. Perfect grammar and writing.

https://www.mlb.com/news/jazz-chisholm-jr-rumors

Crochet will only accept 3/$50 in Jerry and Getz’s dream world. Not happening.

Great point. This is true.

Nah, that’s a weak excuse. The Sox have sucked for years. What does a .490 baseball get anyone? No playoffs, no chance at a WS, so what does that do for you? You may as well just be excited about every win the Sox get in a losing season cuz .490 doesn’t get them anything better.

No, that is not what I am saying. Your expectations are understandable but too high considering the current Sox owner. I understand being upset about not extending a stud like Witt in the hypothetical scenario in which the Sox drafted him but you are the same guy that wanted to bring back the decaying corpses of Abreu and Anderson so you can watch them attempt to play .490 baseball. The fact of the matter is that there are some teams with cheap owners like JR that don’t want to and won’t spend on all facets of their organization to win. But obviously that is no excuse. There are other ways to win, even with a low MLB payroll. Look at the Rays for example. They are competitive almost every year because they have a good front office, good scouting, and good development. Instead of being upset about not extending players that may or may not be past their prime, you should be wishing we had a team like the Rays that know how to: 1.) Draft the right players and develop them. 2.) Trade away their MLB players as they get more expensive via arbitration and approach free agency for promising prospects. 3.) Don’t waste a combined $20+ million dollars on garbage veteran bench players year after year like the Sox when your own developed prospects would be better for a fraction of the cost. Instead of championing a wise change like this, you wish we would sign over-the-hill nostalgic vets like Abreu and Anderson because you are apparently happy watching .490 baseball. The question is, why are you happy to watch .490 baseball that leads to absolutely nothing?

If Witt was on the Sox, yes, he would be traded in about 1 or 2 years from now for sure. Getz/Jerry wouldn’t have given him an 11/$288.7 million dollar extension like the Royals did. Instead, Witt would have turned down Getz/Jerry’s offer of 10/$200 million with the possibility of earning $300 million if Witt won the Triple Crown in both of the last two years of the deal when Witt is in his mid-30’s. ?

Maybe he is shooting up Compound V from the show “The Boys”? ?

I just took a guess and looked up the 2003 Detroit Tigers schedule. The 2003 Detroit Tigers went 25-67 prior to the All-Star Game, which coincidentally was held at U.S. Cellular Field on July 15th that year. I’m not sure if this is the worst record prior to the All-Star break in a 162 game season but it has to be close if it isn’t. So our Sox have currently “bested” that terrible Detroit team by 2 games so far, depending on what happens in the next 2 games before the All-Star break. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/schedule.php?y=2003&t=DET

Well, I know one poster who disagrees with us. ?

If that is possible, he makes perfect sense for a team with a big division lead that doesn’t necessarily need him to win their division.

Are you like an old man yelling at the kids that ride their scooters past your lawn or something? Look at the Sox record. At this point, does it matter if they pitch Crochet for only 2 innings or 9 innings against any opponent? A win or a loss at this point means jack squat cuz the Sox are trash. I agree that they set this up so he can get an All-Star Game appearance. But in the larger scheme of things, I don’t think the Sox are too concerned with his innings count because they know they are trading him soon and he won’t be their problem (innings limit or performance decline) in a couple weeks. What part don’t you understand?