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Getz hasn’t made a bad trade according to some around here.

That jumbo hot dog could basically be Sydney Sweeney in a bikini with the way Plesac is looking at it.

Agreed, that would suck. He should be an upcoming callup to improve the bullpen, not on his way to another team in a trade. Maybe they can find a way to nab Stephenson and Singer for a volume of lesser prospects in a package deal?

This is interesting to me. I know Quero has been bad but what catcher can they obtain that would/should be much better than Quero, assuming Quero hits his way out of his slump? Seems like it would be an expensive price to pay.

I didn’t rip on either the Mead or Gonzalez trades. I believe I said the Mead trade only sucks in hindsight and in case Murakami leaves via free agency. Mead would have been a nice fallback option to take over 1B, but I can see the reason he was traded before opening day. He didn’t hit at all last year once they acquired him and earn his roster spot. They also had to dump him for something since he was out of options. Jacob G was a calculated move. We’ll see if it pays off on the prospect side for the future versus what his own talent would have provided to the team. There is still some concern about the drafting and development of pitching. These guys are absolutely walking the world, and that just won’t fly in the majors.

You need to get better at reading the sarcasm of my second sentence in that post. 😉

Older guy calling another older guy “grandpa”? Don’t be ageist AND hypocritical at the same time!

How’s that pitching development team “blossoming” lately?

The truth is that Hahn drafted Crochet and Getz is reaping the benefits of the team being so bad and cheap that they would have never extended him anyways so Getz got to trade him for a haul.

He was probably one of the few catchers available that would have been worth a claim. Everyone is upset with Romo but there isn’t much out there. We just have to hope Quero is better this third time around.

I do not envy the position Getz is in. The Sox probably aren’t good enough to go deep into the postseason with their current rotation and catcher situation but Getz may feel the pressure to go for it and make some trades. And pitching is going to be massively expensive. I doubt he adds a catcher of note and just hopes Quero snaps out of his funk instead. Just don’t trade away any good prospects chasing the dream of an unlikely WS run and keep building for the future.

Crazy to realize he’s now 37 years old.

For a team that is so often wrong about injury recovery time and associated delays/setbacks, one would think they wouldn’t quickly readjust their initial timeline and just see what happens. Cuz like you both said, they are usually wrong. I mean, it’s almost like we saw the same player go through the same exact situation once this year already…

Kay and Fedde’s tag team name…

Gotta cover Pat McAfee’s renegotiated raise to $60 million a year.

That acquisition doesn’t really fit his description of a “fat contract”. Liriano was in his last season with the Twins in 2012 and was an impending free agent. Liriano earned $5.5 million that season. Obviously they gave up too much talent in Eduardo Escobar, but the Sox only had to pick up $2.1 million of Liriano’s money for the remainder of the season. The Sox picked up $27 million remaining on Shields’ contract.

It worked well for James Shields. He still got paid the rest of his contract.

You must’ve forgetten about Seby. 🤣

That’s two Beavis’s since Saturday. 3-2 looks pretty good with two shutouts in 5 games.

Say what?!?

Rocky Dennis could have pitched a better game than this.

Loser’s limpcitis.

Get this buster out of the rotation. Getting owned by Nicky freaking Lopez.

Depends if it’s Grade I, II, or III. My son came back from one in 2 weeks playing OL but it was a Grade I. He just taped it up. Definitely wouldn’t be fun as a catcher.

This is a choke job of epic proportions.