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And what is your lineup of starting position players to score runs after you have extended Fedde? The Sox have almost nothing in the cupboard.

Greg, in your mythical world of baseball, is every good Sox player signed to a lifetime contract like the MLB prior to free agency? You have to factor in years of control in on every player, where the Sox are as a team and if they can compete (they can’t yet), as well as an owner that doesn’t like paying a premium to starting pitchers that are hitting free agency. Your ideas would get the Sox to maybe be a .500 team and nothing better. What does that achieve?

Not a huge injury but starters are dropping like flies… “Mariners placed RHP Bryan Woo on the 15-day injured list with a right hamstring strain. Woo has been phenomenal this season for Seattle, registering a microscopic 1.77 ERA, 0.69 WHIP and 28/3 K/BB ratio across 40 2/3 innings (eight starts), but has struggled to stay healthy. The 24-year-old righty was lifted from the fourth inning of Monday’s start against the Rays with a right hamstring tightness, and a subsequent MRI revealed a low-grade strain. He’s going to miss at least a couple weeks, even with this being arguably the best-case scenario outcome.”

They better be worth something. The Brewers just acquired our old friend and are apparently throwing him into their major league rotation.

Throw him back in the rotation and he could put up a 5+ ERA and hurt his value even more. At least they will be trading him with an extra year of cheap control.

Usually, impending free agents are the ones traded. The additional value is already in the extra two seasons of cheap control over Crochet, not some expectation of him signing an extension. The Sox aren’t going to worry about trading Crochet to a team expecting an extension. If a team requested that, the Sox would say CYA and trade him to another team.

He’s twice the size of every other kid on the field and he knocked out two horribly lobbed pitches. Like Lip said, check his birth certificate. ?

He’s also as old as La Russa and turning 80 at the end of the year. I don’t think we need to see yet another manager taking his old man naps during the start of games.

I’m not sure what you are seeing when Kopech pitches, but you are going to be disappointed in the return for him when it finally happens. Kopech isn’t sniffing a return of the #62nd ranked prospect in the MLB. Cease returned one top 100 prospect — Drew Thorpe, who was rated #85 at the time of the trade.

That’s takes some talent. Amazing job by Getzy.

Not hindsight at all. I remember numerous posters specifically calling the Maldonado and Lopez signings terrible wastes of money when they happened. Also, that Brebbia was a bit too pricey for a team that was going to be awful either way. Play young players in a season you know you are going to be non-competitive. Don’t sign garbage re-treads unless they are cheap and you think they are flippable. Maldonado and Lopez were never going to be those guys. Getz didn’t even stick to his supposed plan of bringing up prospects slowly so it was all BS anyways. Improved defense for the rotation — yeah, that worked out well. But I guess we should all be excited that Getz got one or two signings right in his offseason and ignore all the many more awful acquisitions. You have very low expectations.

If Getz avoided dumpster diving for a few of his junk DFA candidate veterans this past offseason in preparation for a no win situation/season, he would have Benintendi’s $16.5 million covered for next season already. Maldonado, Lopez, Brebbia, and Hill. These bums cost $16.1 million dollars and provided around negative 2.5 WAR up to this point.

Yup. I wouldn’t put my own money on it happening but there still is a small chance he finally hits well enough to be worth half his salary and an even smaller chance that he is worth all of it. You can’t neuter a Crochet return just because of Benintendi’s salary.

Which record are you referring to — the Sox franchise shutout record or the MLB shutout record?

Very different, yet still very bad.

MLB has Caba as the Phillies #5 prospect and #99 in the MLB top 100. I can’t imagine Kopech could net that kind of value for 1.5 seasons of control with the way he has been pitching. But yeah, if the Phillies are dumb enough to offer that kind of value for him, you take it.

It was a very short delay, like 30 minutes.

Blasphemy. If I was the coach of the other team, I’d ream those two little kids out for congratulating big boy and bench them for the rest of the game. If I was big boy’s coach, I’d ream him out too and bench him for raising his arms and asking for applause as he rounded third base like some MLB star.

Funny how it would sound like sh1t if we were Dodgers fans but it seems like an impossible feat with our team. I can’t even imagine them getting close to that.

Wilson and Kopech bringing the heat but guaranteed to give up runs every outing. Nice timing by them considering they were our two best bullpen trade chips.

On the positive side, a certain poster’s job tracking the stat just became a lot easier now that the counter has been reset.

“And the Sox no shutout streak is… OVA.”

Good god, what team would want this loser?

That little kid with the ice cream cone had a bigger gold chain than Moncada.