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JR is going to be annoyed enough as it is that he has to replace Grifol and pay out the final year of his contract. Getz is safe for a long while, as he did what JR wanted — slashed payroll overall. JR won’t even notice that he wasted $22+ million on a bunch of shitbag players.

No, not at all. These guys were expected to be awful by most posters in the offseason while they were being acquired. Getz thought they would at least turn around the defense. Oops…

$22.1 million dollars literally burned in a firepit.

I updated my previous post. It’s like $22 million wasted on garbage players that are either gone already, should be DFA, or are injured.

$5.5 million for Brebbia to be precise. $4.5 million for Maldonado. Another $4.3 million for Nicky Lopez. $3 million for Soroka. $3 million wasted on Clevinger. $1.8 million for Tim Hill. It all adds up to $22.1 million and it’s all so so bad. Nice job, Getz.

I think Brebbia’s trade market just came and donged.

Where’s our Bobby Witt Jr.?

f*** yeah, you guys did it. #15!!! History!!!

Can’t stop, won’t stop…

I realize Busch is a 1B/DH, but we can only hope Vargas can hover around an .800 OPS like Busch.

Moncada? He will have another setback for sure or get reinjured the second he comes back. And even if he doesn’t, what would be the point of even playing him? A waiver deal? Not with his performance, disappearance, and bloated contract. The Sox should tell him to stay home.

When you have a lineup devoid of bats and not very many position prospects, you can’t afford to come up a player short in a trade of one of your last few trade assets.

“Little Hurt”

We keep seeing all of these quotes about someone other than Getz seemingly picking or recommending players. I know Getz gets the final say but is he always deferring to others or does he normally pick his own players to acquire?

Well, the Dominic Fletcher over Jake McCarthy recommendation from Josh Barfield worked out so well. Perhaps a Mike Tosar recommended player will work out even better?

Apparently, that guy worded his tweet and portrayed the news inaccurately. There was another tweet in which the guy accurately portrayed the news on how the trade happened.

Reminds me of the Bummer trade.

That’s easily resolved, without expecting to eat Benintendi’s contract. Cut Sheets. He’s worthless.

Getz probably felt he had to make up for dumping Pillar too early. ?

Probably, but just because Vargas has been in the majors the last three years and hit well in the PCL doesn’t mean he has a major league ready bat. I guess we shall find out.

He echoed some posters’ comments here — i.e., one player too short, didn’t extract full value from Fedde.

Berto from the west side, dude! And I sure hope he makes a follow-up call after this trade deadline.

Nah, it’s just further proof that he is who we thought he was — a bad GM.

I assume most people are talking about offensively.

Can we go back in time and offer Fedde for Jordan Walker in a one-for-one swap without the lesser prospects?