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presuming he was actually scouted. Trade mistakes, yes.

Jared Kelley sighting; the 4-round wonder. Nice job. It wouldn't surprise me if he finally turns it on at some point. Hope it's soon.

Heck pay 1/2 the freight, Getz; make it 2/3. What a gust of air that would be. Getz should do more business with Atlanta. Anthopolous ripped him off last time; but he told Getz that he was ripping him off so his honesty was admirable.

Re the game today, Hicks got hit hard. 2 Singles and a lineout for DP. it's early of course; but Sox have him for 2 seasons. I will confess that I enjoyed today's broadcast; prefer this group to the regular Cubs crew (and Sox crew for that matter). Hire some women broadcasters, JR!

Murray's better than Mead (comparison as both are the products of oddball trades with the Rays). I can't see keeping Kelenic around if he isn't hitting. What's the real upside there to make him worth the wait? If there was a tangible/discernable reason why Wade was so bad last year, that makes him interesting than just a Charlotte player. Benintendi is the culprit in all of this....really the FO that signed him...we still owe him for 40% of his contract!

Well Carlson is already an A++ SS defensively, so that may be like splitting 10s in blackjack. But maybe he'd be that in CF as well. Regardless, wasn't much of the idea behind drafting the Middle Infielders is their position flexibility? . Sox are obviously letting IFs play OF very carefully, and so far it's just Baldwin. But the philosophy seems sound.

Hope he has a big year and someone overtakes him; then we can trade him for pitching prospects. Keep the pipeline flowing for a change. I know they don't want to mess with what so far has been a good thing (real good thing), but I think Colson would be a good CF

Yes, but he's better than most of the waiver wire catchers.

The Sox knew this was coming with Lee. Best hope is that there are multiple teams in need of a backup catcher, with no others available, at the end of March. Getz just needs to be patient and not give him away too soon. Mead shouldn't push out anyone.

He was the one player among the top 10 that I begged they not draft. He looked like a pure reliever to me. Should have taken the Middle infielder in 2024 and the pitcher in 2025.

He's another reason that the Hicks trade was unnecessary and really quite terrible, in contrast to the early reaction that it was clever bit of arbitrage.

Yes, that's a concern of mine...giving Baldwin (and/or others) away to the Rays, while we keep the players that the Rays and others have been unable to squeeze value out of. I'd prefer not to have the older guys around at all, so as not to tempt. The older guys should be here for the purpose of trading in July (and not for more org guys, please). As for wins, last year the Marlins won 79, with a 72 win Pythagorean. The Sox won 60, a 15+ game improvement from 2024, with a Pythagorean of 71. 77 or even 82 wins isn't inconceivable. But players will have to show progress and this is the time to let them show it (or not). Baldwin, Sosa, Vargas, Cannon, Burke...it's "this is it" time or close to it.

That would really help. But the Sox still owe him $30 mill and it would probably take at least $20mill to move him. Madness!

Why trade him if he's good? He wasn't a "Sign-to-trade." That's what signing middle relievers is for. Plus, if he's good, the Sox will likely be .500ish and WC contenders (as long as the pitching doesn't take a step back, which, but for the Rule 5 guys, it kind of did last year).

Suwinski had an Eloy-like career trajectory. Hard to get anywhere when promising players do that.

Roch faces my Green Wave tomorrow night. Can't wait!

You just don't trade a young player with upside for a mediocre salary dump, even with proviso that 90% of the time, the young player with upside won't make it. Hahn was better about which prospects to trade later in his career; of course he had other weaknesses as well. This Getz situation to me is just another example of his naivete. He doesn't really know Acuna. He kind of knows what the Mets front office told him about Acuna. Switch hitting is a skill, and he was just talking of the top o his head about a player he doesn't really know. I think that applies to most of the out of options, aging prospects, org guys he acquires, which is the largest demographic of his acquisitions. Reminds me of Lance White: "Why would he lie, Jim?" (Rockford Files).

Those Rule 5 guys, if they show anything, are more important than Fedde, Hicks, etc. They need to keep them.

That would be interesting. Also interesting would be the comp pick that the RedSox just picked up. But until proven otherwise, I’ll expect the usual org guy.

I think they've signed enough veteran 5th starter types. Still have a lot of younger players they need to evaluate and make a decision on.

Yea, I wouldn’t dump Gilbert for Banda. Prefer Eisert to both as he is a lot younger, Ks more batters, and showed he could handle closing. Eisert’s stats are a bit behind, but he could become more than the last guy in the pen.

Given that Detroit’s number was silly-low, I wonder if Detroit intentionally bid low to let Skubal win, knowing in that in winner-take-all arb, his ask would not be absurdly high. As for JR, his failure to build infrastructure (i.e. farm and development system), given his reluctance to spend at the top of market, is one of his 2 biggest failings. Some of that may be on Williams and Hahn….holding onto those 2, is the other.

Sounds like a blast. I’ll probably call it a career soon, so I’ll have the time. Tooling around and seeing other teams, not just the Sox, appeals to me too.

Why not? He's only 23 and the Orioles got him for free. I still can't believe Sox DFAd him, as well as the guys DFAd for Hicks, with 30 year old Derek Hill and his career .624 OPS on the 40-man.

I guess Hicks was good in 2019 when he pitched 28 innings. He’s had a .9 BWAR in 2023 and 2024 (as a starter). His fWARs aren’t much better. And we’re stuck with him for 2 seasons including a cool 12.5 mill next season. Sox had plenty of iffy bullpen arms plus 2 Rule 5 guys to evaluate. So we did a prospect swap. But we got nothing for the salary dump. This was a far better deal for Boston (salary relief and 2 spots on 40-man!) than it was for the White Sox.