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Unless this is supposed to be sarcasm, Julks is hardly a prospect. He’s 29 years old.

It’s also tough to do your job when your sacks are packed with seamen.

Slater and Houser were traded. A righty bench bat OF and a usually mediocre SP that had 11 good starts. Teams weren’t ever giving up good prospects for them, which makes sense. They are normally just two mediocre cheap vets. I hated the Vargas trade last year but I’m not sure what you expected for two scrubs like Slater and Houser.

Definitely possible. Perhaps unlikely.

Not a surprise. Jerry may have approved Robert’s $20 million dollar option but I’m sure he doesn’t want to actually pay it in full.

Gotta love when worthless Julks hits 2 doubles to make Getz think he’s good again…

Bring back Madrigal next season if you want an easy replacement for Rojas. He can play the same positions and won’t get $3.5 million. He will also OPS above .504. 🤮 What was Getz even thinking with this Rojas signing? He was a splurge bench signing for a contender, not a signing a non-contending team should ever be making with numerous younger players/prospects that could play the same positions already.

No one knows. Probably not even Getz.

Who knows? If Robert stays hot for the rest of the season and ends up with an .800+ OPS, 20 HR, and 40 SB, I wouldn’t be surprised if a contender is willing to trade for him in the offseason. 1-year at $22 million or 2-years at $40 million isn’t a bad deal for a 28-year old potential All-Star CF. You aren’t going to be able to sign a player like that for that kind of minimal contract length and money in free agency.

I assume Ramos will replace Rojas on the roster next season, without burning $3.5 million in the fire pit.

Per FanGraphs:

@chitownsportsfan looking like a genius for starting this thread now. 👍🏻

Gus Varland also DFA’ed to add Amaya to the 40-man roster.

Probably doesn’t matter, but Cannon is likely just a jizz mopper who has obviously been getting lucky over almost 2 seasons with his 1.40 WHIP and mediocre hit, K, and BB rate.

Andrew Vaughn — steal of the century. 🤣

They finally have a chance to get both Sosa and Mead in the lineup with Vargas out and Venable wastes a start on Rojas.

Does Nightengale not know how low the starting payroll is going to be for the start of next offseason? Maybe he isn’t as tight with Jerry as we all thought?

It will be a horrifying result. What do the Sox need most right now? A power hitting 1B.

The Sox have one of the coolest logos of all time. Remember all the Starter gear that rappers wore from the Sox and Raiders back in the 80’s and 90’s? We need a good team, not a new logo.

This probably just proves that Osik’s comments were accurate. This is likely still just a fluke hot streak, but perhaps Vaughn didn’t take things seriously until the Sox sent him down to AAA and traded him for a mediocre pitcher.

He has literally been Bondsian…

He should probably just play regardless of matchups. We all know Rojas is gone after this season, if he even lasts that long.

At this point in the season, why would you ever start Rojas, especially over a guy who will be here next season in Mead? And the even bigger question is — why hasn’t Rojas been DFA’ed yet?