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The Sox might win 54 games instead of 50 with Robert around next season. I’m not sweating him being traded.

Agreed. Is it a bit surprising that all he could get is $1.05 million after his last two seasons of performance? I mean, he made a million from the Brewers last year. Seems like he might have a bad agent or something.

Ely questioned some of Getz’s call-ups last year and also the pitchers he didn’t call up. He also made a joke about trading some of the Sox young pitching for established hitting but that at some point the Sox would have to pay the hitter. Definitely comments from a guy who is on his way out and doesn’t care about getting reprimanded.

Did Ely call Grant Taylor “Logan” Taylor? And the hosts didn’t correct him? They don’t know the correct name of the Sox 8th ranked prospect?

Well, they are both owed basically the same money over the next three years but there are opt outs in Robert’s deal. But Robert plays CF while Suzuki is a corner outfielder and three years older. However, Suzuki has stayed healthy and has put up an .840+ OPS in back-to-back seasons while Robert is always injured. I wouldn’t be too shocked if Suzuki does have more trade value. It would be no contest if Robert wasn’t perpetually injured and had such a horseshit year last season.

Because he’s got less power than both Nick Madrigal and Nicky Lopez after numerous cycles of roids.

The Sox should be looking to create guys like Booser and trade them away for youth, just like the Red Sox did. Not acquiring guys like Booser. The Sox are going to be terrible next season. They have plenty of opportunity to pitch guys from their own system that could be the next Booser. Like @Balta1701 said, isn’t it funny that the Red Sox, a team that is actually going to compete in 2025 unlike our Sox, would rather have the 18-year old Fajardo in their minors than Booser on their MLB roster?

Dude wasn’t good at 25 either… ”Booser, a 25-year-old on the Rookie-level Elizabethton Twins, had pitched 2 2/3 innings this season for Class A Advanced Fort Myers, allowing one run while walking seven and hitting two batters over three relief appearances. He went 0-4 with an 8.53 ERA, 34 strikeouts and 31 walks over 25 1/3 innings for Class A Cedar Rapids and Fort Myers in 2016.”

Yeah, definitely can’t have bullpen issues for a 50 win team.

You don’t even want to know.

Yes, he was one of the many bad reliever acquisitions that Getz made last year.

He’s likely the next cut if there is an additional acquisition that requires a 40-man spot.

Imagine someone saying that about your job. 🤣

He may never amount to anything but I don’t understand a team in the Sox current state trading any young pitching for old and potentially fluky pitching.

I only like this move because it led to the cutting of Julks.

But they really only saved $2 million for next season’s payroll, as they just signed Carlos Santana for $12 million.

I wouldn’t have been surprised either but Cotillo said it’s a pitcher, although Colas was a pitcher for Cuba…

And then they burn $12 million on old man Santana anyways.

Yep, what the heck?

Julks or Shewmake can see their way out any time now. Hopefully both.

Maybe, but he wasn’t good at all recently either in the minors from 2022 to 2024 with both Texas and Boston after returning from the independent leagues. Sure looks fluky to me. It’s actually surprising Boston even called him up.

The first thing Jerry did after firing Hahn and Kenny was promote the assistant GM to full GM after admitting he never interviewed anyone else for the job. He did not consider another candidate for the position, internally or externally. That sure seems like more of the same White Sox way operationally.

Yeah, he was the other bad lefty reliever that Getz traded a second round draft pick for and then dumped for cash two months later.

4.82 ERA and 1.56 WHIP in the minors. Last year may have been a fluke.