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What a stupid a$$hole. Even worse is the GM continuing to employ a stupid a$$hole.

Well, there's very little chance of that. Aside from very few teams willing to trade a top 20 for anyone, we have Chris Getz who lacks the skills to execute such a trade (he let Mozeliak lead him around by the nose). We can keep him, but we're 50 below with him. Hard to see a path to improving the team without trading him.

They still need to trade him, imo, because I believe that the odds that Getz learns a thing or two between now and December, recognizes he effed up the Fedde trade and tries to learn from it and expands his horizons beyond west coast teams, are a lot less than the odds that he and Pedro seriously deteriorate Crochet's value on the field between now and season-end.

Giving Getz the benefit of the doubt, I think he deals with the western teams because he has more knowledge of the prospects via Arizona facility. I really don't think he's pulling names from BA's rankings list. The Dodgers like the Sox players (the good ones); little disappointed that the Dodgers allowed St Louis to ripoff Getz yesterday; should have stepped in and said St Louis needs to send prospects to the Sox. While that is naive, abetting a ripoff is not good business. Too bad Jones has a bad swing. That makes him a no-go, at least as a centerpiece.

OK, then we got ripped off on the Fedde/Pham side of the deal. If the reports are right that Getz agreed with Mozeliak that Edman was fair value for Fedde, then the starting point of this trade was incongruent and it’s easy to see how the White Sox got ripped off.

Well, considering he hadn’t given up an earned run in July and only one hit in July; and considering the prices that teams are paying for relievers, yeah we should’ve gotten at least something for him. We got nothing for him. Tanner Banks will likely be traded tomorrow. We’ll see if we get something for him.

About 15 years ago, the Pelicans changed ownership and brought in a new and inexperienced GM. Chris Paul was demanding a trade, so the GM traded him to the Lakers for 3 or 4 veterans that the Lakers were trying to dump to get under the cap. David Stern stepped in, voided the trade, and negotiated a trade with the Clippers that included some youth and draft picks. The White Sox need David Stern to step in.

With all due respect, that's not what yall were saying before the draft. As for an up the middle player, I'm all for that, but the big get in today's trade wasn't that so how much of a priority is it? I think the problem with today's trade comes down to the inclusion of Kopech. It was like a throw in to make the trade fair for the Dodgers. The trouble is that it was the Cardinals, not the White Sox, who hadn't contributed enough. And relievers are going for sky high prices, so it's an opportunity lost.

And then there is Peralta with his 88 mph heater. This dingleberry doesn’t even realize that Tanner Banks is the best reliever he has.

Wrong decision every time without fail z

I wonder if Getz doesn't box himself into a corner by insisting on position prospects. To some extent it goes back to the draft when they had a choice of the 3 position players that they had dreamed of, and passed on all 3. Now, they almost have to take position players, even though the value may be in pitching.

Being perfectly honest, the Jays' return doesn't make me feel any worse about this afternoon's debacle.

There you go Astros. Just who you need to solve your 1B problem: Vaughn

4 hits and one run. Vaughn does his thing.

Could be why they’re still trying to trade him, even though his value is not what it was. If you smite Jerry, you gotta go.

Watch the Dodgers fleece us for Crochet, and then, since he won't do them much good this season, send him to the minors to collect the extra year.

I agree with the comparison; it's too early in Getz' career to make a lazy trade like that. But it was far from the worst trade.

Pedro Grifol doesn't like Colas. That was obvious last season.

Why do they keep brining Peralta back? He's terrible. I'd like to see them call up Dominguez. Not that I think that he'll be good; but he's nearing 30 and his a White Sox lifer, so it would be cool to see him get his moment in the major league sun (such as it is).

Foot-long Comiskey dog is spinning it nice on Twitter. And Chuck is showing minor-league highlights

I hope you're right; but I would think just the fact that there would be prospects coming from St Lous would have been announced.

And Vargas is exactly the "Big Piece" the Dodgers were trying to dump. And to throw in Pham and Kopech? Getz being led around by the nose. This is pure amateur hour.

Seems awfully light. Trade on the Dodgers and Cards terms: they each traded exactly the player they were hoping to trade. And to not extract a prospect from the Cardinals....

That may say as much about Pedro and the White Sox then it does about Fletcher. And they insist on running sheets and Eloy and Lopez out there the rest of the season, then he just got a wonder what they’re doing.

You may be right. But his minor-league numbers were bad last year and they are even worse this year. He hit better in the majors than the minors last year. I don’t know if that was just happenstance or what. and I just hate to start the rebuild off with a bad defender.