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Just no young-for-old trades. Now it would be insane to do it coming off of 60 wins and unwise to do it almost anytime without a top-tier farm system – but none of that ever stopped his predecessor. In that interview, Getz went on for a while about trusting other GMs – still naive. Boston didn’t ripoff Getz last time, and might be out to remedy that.

I guess. Anyway, McDaniel has a less favorable opinion of our prospects: Bonemer: 34 Schultz: 96 Carlson: 100 4 or 5 in his next 100 I believe Our drafting team certainly has gotten a pass in all of the reshuffling.

Taylor too, rotation-wise.

Ending up with an average of average is fine; but the goal of a first round pick isn’t to draft an average player. One year you might draft Fulmer….later that is counter-balanced with Crochet and the math says average. I’ll take a Fulmer and Crochet over 2 Royce Claytons any day. Now we need the offsets for Collins, Burger, Madrigal, Vaughn, Gonzalez, Kelley (paid like a 1R pick) etc.

What happened to Berroa? (also part of that trade). Haven't see him in a while. Injured?

He has a negative defense fWAR. He's an okay player, but they really need to look at Baldwin, Acuna, Pereira and hopefully Sosa. While Hill and Peters are hopefully earmarked for Charlotte, they are clogging the 40-man, presumably for insurance purposes.

Just go with what we have. Tauchman can hit ok but he’s not much of an OF.

I wouldn't be; we'll never get anywhere if high draft choices can't hit. We need solid regulars, if not all stars. William Bergola is a really good defender. Defensive SSs aren't that hard to find. Ones that can hit are.

I’m not sure what I should/allowed to post. But “Carlson is an electric defender at shortstop with an 80 arm and surprising power for someone who has barely begun to fill out his frame, coming into pro ball with a high floor thanks to that combination and the upside of a frequent All-Star if the White Sox can help him get to more contact with some swing changes.” Law List Athletic

Law: 30: Montgomery 44: Bonemer 58: Smith 66: Carlson 95: Schultz List

Reliever, if keep both Rule 5 guys, which I hope they do. Otherwise bench player because the Sox have a lot of position players to audition;

Well, Acuna, Baldwin and Pereira should be out there most days. Benintendi of course. Kelenic, per some, has a handshake agreement for a spot. Korey Lee might get more time in OF – have to figure something with him. Sosa, and maybe other IF, might shag balls in the OF. Then there are Hill and the Tampa guy; both should be Charlotte players but, as of now, they are not. Could use a good OF, but otherwise, I hope not.

A $5 mill outfielder would just be a blocker and make things worse. Don’t have enough to get a good player, so they are entering “spending just to spend” territory.

The Getz trade acquisition that could really help is Pereira. He looks like a blueprint AAAA hitter – rakes in AAA but can’t do squat in the majors – but his major league sample size is still slight, so there is hope. The Sox gave up 2 major league pitchers for him, albeit back of the roster guys.

Has either pitched beyond A ball? I doubt either will be “ready.” But if they have the talent, which I suspect they do, hide them for a season. they are likely better than the org guy Getz will get when he trades his Free Agent middle reliever in July.

Should have gone SS in '24 and Pitcher in '25. (I say that because I really didn't like Smith ) Carlson may be good; just surprised he's ranked so low this soon after the draft.

Re the pen, I see these 5 as locks Taylor Vasil Leasure Gonzalez Newcomb And they need t0 find a spot for the 2 rule 5 guys, 1 for sure and 2 likely in the pen. For 1/2 spots, you have Gilbert who was decent and Eisert almost decent. I hope failed starters like Cannon get pen time. There really isn’t much room for Getz' $20 mill. in a rebuild pen situation.

To me, the #10 pick in last year’s draft ranked only #91 was disappointing.

Maybe so, isn’t this on along the same lines as those trades? Aren’t most/all Getz trades (except Crochet) kind of similar? Those tampa trades, low stakes as there were, stand out to me as Getz at peak naivete, just accepting soon-to-be org guys. I still get the sense that he evaluates a lot of our return based on what the other GMs tell him. Listen to him go on about how the Mets hated losing Acuna. Getz seems awfully trusting of these GMs who are trying to rip him off.

I realize that - @fathom lists the players that he thinks Sox will add; I'm listing the ones that I hope the Sox will add. I agree his list is more likely.

I hope not. Those would be a signings just to sign. Overall, they would likely make things worse. Do a deal with Gonsolin; give him some $$ this year and some club options for next 2. Or sign one or both of Verlander and Scherzer to a 1/$20, with the promise that we’ll trade them to a contender in July.

the Sox have jammed themselves up with so many questionable players who are at the point in their career for which the Sox have a “use ‘em or lose ‘em” decision that any positional free agent would crowd out necessary auditions…particularly of infielders playing outfield. Conforto would be ridiculous ; Just sign a good pitcher.

Another infielder….always on the other teams’ terms. Hard to see the urgency to come away with this deal. But let’s see how he spends the $20 million.

I thought that ban-bets were like duels of the old days, when you just shoot into the air. But I guess this one took the Aaron Burr approach.

Gonsolin on the cheap for the rebound.