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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.

I hope Pedro isn’t advising him. Describing Nick Senzel as “a strong right handed bat” is not the sort of advice Getz needs. Hr should at least objectively consider the twins and guardians offers.

What would that accomplish? The payroll is going to be low enough as it is next year. This team has one for sure major league hitter going forward. One. Are we going to give away our best trade chit? yes, he clogged others’ development. I’m tired of looking at him. Just DFA him. or just let him sit on the bench and play solitaire. Pedro doesn’t use his bullpen like a competent manager anyway, so they don’t need 13 pitchers.

And even if they were contenders, who cares? The AL East teams trade with each other all the time. Schueler had that "we won't trade with the AL" nonsense when he was white flagging it; we ended up with Foulke and a pile of crap instead of the Lowe and Varitek that Boston got for Slocumb who wasn't as good as Roberto Hernandez, not to mention the other players that the Sox threw into the trade.

i think Law was probably right - hasn't been the same since the back injury. There really wasn't any sign of him being unable to hit velocity before that. Hopefully he can recover from that. But he may not - great prospects turn to crap all the time. The one plus is that he's not changing his approach.

For Tampa, it may be as simple as they suck at DH and they have someone waiting in the wings who can play 3B. Meanwhile, they pick up 2 power arms. They probably could have gotten some good prospects from another team, but they don't want to rebuild, just retool. They know what they're doing.