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If you don’t get two legit prospects (not top 25 or anything) plus a power arm who could play in pen or some other quality flyer (or international money or draft picks), you hold onto him and see if he can do it for rest of the year and deal him on offseason. Dude is dealing and is for real. Not Crochet good but he would be a great get for any team in July. Note: Fingers crossed these guys stay healthy and keep dealing / hitting (in case of DeJong and hopefully Robert).

He has 2.5 years of control. Whether you extend him or not that is plenty of control. Extending him is not a leverage thing to get more in trade it would purely be a we want to lock a front line starter into our rebuild. For the record - if Crochet hadn’t been consistently hurt, I would not be proposing to trade him, cause he has an elite arm, but with his checkered past and the Sox being the biggest small market club on the planet, you got to go get a haul for him.

I think if you trade Crochet - you probably want a high end pitching prospect and a high end bat plus two other solid prospects. Same goes for Robert. I would also try to get some international slot and draft picks in these deals - seems like teams are more willing to ocassional give that up so take advantage of it.

The thing is - my 9 year old saw same thing I did. Why was Lopez not on 2nd base on the ball that got away from the catcher the pitch before Vaughn hit the grounder.

Ok Pedro. You’ll take a different flight back. Let this be the nail in the coffin.

I will say as someone who has ripped Beckham a ton, he has gotten better.

Would be huge if Wilson pitches well next few weeks - you know what contenders will pay for a quality reliever like him.

He looked toast - those were two lousy sliders and his bat just looked slow and off.

I don’t think he was going to get paid a bunch over last couple years - he has barely pitched. Given what he has done this year someone would give him something north of 75M for his arb years plus two years. If you are still healthy - than follow that up with a Rodon like deal.

Let him get thrown out at home vs getting two outs and not trying

Nice inning for Kopech. I legit forgot they still do this runner on 2nd in extra innings.

Given his injury issue - I do understand the concept of - get a big bag of money for your first real payday now…guarantee yourself generational wealth for life.

Im fine with TLR in an interim role too lol

I really think if they keep this up on the road trip the club cans him.

I agree - this looks like a Rick Hahn type deal.

I like this kid.

Can’t let him go another batter. Hopefully he can win it here cause I think you have to pull him if Cal gets on.

Southside stand up….grifshit has managed his last game

Why the f*** is the infield in. A catcher is hitting - turn two

I’m thinking Grifol won’t be on the flight back to Chicago. JR figured If he dumps him dump him when he is as far west as possible so you can maximize the airfare savings

Wow. If I was Cal I’d get tossed. They were calling none of that in top half of the 8th. One more here Kopech!!! Get er done!

I loved Beckham in the 8th….this club has really looked different as of late (paraphrasing)….are you kidding me…team is like 3 of their last 23 or something

Come on Kopech - I need you to get through this and have a clean sheet. Strike the side out here right now. want a great June / July run to than turn you into some prospects!

What did he say?

This makes sense - I think the Sox have extended durations with both players and so with Robert having missed most of the year and kind of in a down place - unless he just crushes in June / July - you probably don't get the value you could for him if you wait it out and trade him when he is having a great season (we don't know when that will be - but in a 3.5 year span - I suspect he'll have at least one year where he has it all just rolling (if not two) and that is absolutely the time to max out for him. Re: Crochet - I presume the reality is - this offseason will be a better time to deal him or even part way into next year where he is (hopefully) continuing to show his dominance. I think the reality is a team paying what he's worth now is probably discounting the payment given the fact that he'll hit his inning limit and need to get shut down. The balancing act here is Sox NEED to be smart and not get Crochet hurt. This is delicate given his injury history - so if Sox got a good (but not great offer), I see the reason to take the offer and run, because there is definitely a chance he goes down again, misses half or a whole season, and at that point you don't have much upside. With that said - if he has a good year, you shut him down smartly, I could see a club looking for a cost controlled pitcher paying a ton in the off-season, and I could also see the same if he came out next year and had a really strong 1st month or two -> at that point you are going to get a haul. However, Crochet is pitching so well (*knock on wood*) that there is a non-zero chance someone decides they really like him and makes an aggressive enough offer to make it work this year. I think more likely on Crochet than Robert -> but thats mainly because Crochet has the production this year to drive it; If Robert had a month of June where he hit 10+HR's and put up a .950+ OPS while playing really good D, and than carried that into July -> I could see the Robert momentum improve significantly.