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Only thing that concerns me about Johnson is just how good the Lions offensive line is. Is he as good as advertised or is the line covering up a lot of stuff?

Solely for keeping Eberflus, I think Poles pisses me off more than Getz.

They are running laps around the entire league.

Remember when they traded Mookie Betts for literal garbage?

Trading Crochet for future pieces is truly the only way the Sox (and how they operate) is the only way they can get out of this. He pitched every 5 days this year and it was the most miserable season possible.

I mean it's only been one rebuild year so far. 2023 they for sure didn't view it as a rebuild year, as they were 500 the year before and added Benintendi (which, whatever). It just turned out that Grifol happened to be the worst manager imaginable. Next year will also be bad, but you SHOULD start to crawl out of it in 26 and that is when you'd hopefully be looking to add.

Snell going to the Dodgers is probably good for trade market. Will make other NL teams a little more desperate, plus I didn’t love what the Dodgers could offer compared to others.

If there actually is a mystery team, I could see it being the Cubs.

You'd be getting two top 50 prospects along with him, and you can move him for more whenever you'd like.

If it's those two then I'll gladly take Bohm from them.

I'm very confused why people are so upset that the GM has a higher asking price than what he will get on November 26th. You'd be losing your mind if he accepted some offer you deem bad right now.

I think holding Robert for now and hoping for a bounce back is as much as a no brainer as trading Crochet. You aren't going to get anything of great value for him. If you are moving him for another player in a similar spot to him (Lux/Bohm/etc) then I'd at least like to see that person extended for a couple years.

The "leaks" that a lot of teams would like to have Garrett Crochet?

I really don't think Chris Getz (and by extension, JR) give a s%*# about what we think.

Maybe the Sox are getting a better prospect package if they take him off their hands?

Yeah I don't love Bohm coming over. He can be a third piece if the Sox are throwing in some other garbage or something, but he can't be one of the 2 (I'm assuming) big "pieces" of this trade.

Did Eberflus think a FG didn't win the game or something? He was just letting them march down the field.

Yeah. I'd rather watch a season of young guys and hope to see some growth instead of doing what they did last year and hope older guys peform so you can trade them.

I am not willing to make that proclamation yet.

Article doesn’t exactly paint it as him being the centerpiece, just a piece. I still don’t think Crochet is going to the Dodgers.

Just glad Sheets is gone. Hopefully new coaching staff finds something with Vaughn.

The only thing that (sort of, in their eyes) makes sense is he was originally punished for not listening to coaching and then continued to do that.

I don't take any baseball rumor as 100 percent truth. But I think your leap to "Chris Getz is making this up because there isn't much interest in Garrett Crochet" is insane.

I’m confused why it matters? First off, we have no idea if Chris Getz is leaking this information. And if he is then he is doing…what every other team/player does for their own personal gain.

We are hearing about teams interested in Juan Soto. What's the difference? Is Juan Soto thinking he isn't good enough offers that he hasn't even gotten yet?