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Hays was unavoidable (if they couldn't trade him) but dumping Pereira and Gonzalez while keeping Joe Rock (and others) seems nutty.

It's unbelievable really. The 1-inning drop off in mph is crazy. Smith practically falls off the mound after every pitch. Why do the Sox draft so many sidearm/low slot guys? Is that what Bannister orders? Getz? Shirley on his own? All of the above? And it was the same thing in the 2026 draft.

Smith's delivery looks even more pronounced than it was in college. Seems like it would be hard to throw strikes, much less hold pinpoint command..

Sadly, in most cases, that's probably the right move. At least there's a chance to get something out of them. I'm hoping that Taylor and Vasil start next year. Vasil for sure;

Bottom 1/3 is the Sox natural spot over most of the last 60 years (c. 1990-2006 excepted). After 2022-2025, it's absolutely ridiculous not to have more talent than that stockpiled; our major league team isn't that loaded.

How does that happen? I didn't like him much in college, but at least he was throwing 98; or so they said. 93-94 is pretty much the norm for a Sox pitching prospects. Do any of the draftees this year have velocity? I know they have funky deliveries, odd arm slots, pitch shapes, and I would guess spin...but velocity?

In the 12th, we get 3 hits and a walk and score 1. They get no hits and a wild pitch and score 1. That was that. Getz traded for a terrible Castillo, and, not surprisingly, he's still terrible. And moving Fedde to the pen has been a disaster. Except really for the catcher trade, these were trades just to make trades. And they were done on the other teams' terms....and he listens to these GMs who are trying to rip him off.

Feels like we have been off a week. Time to play ball.

Yea but we had Perez out there too. Could have kept Hill in lieu of him. Anyway, if Doyle can re-channel 2024, we're set.

So we traded for what we had and then virtually gave away in Hill. We’ve done several of these zigzag sort of things over the last couple of years.

I give it a C-. After calming down, the only trade that really annoys me is Luis Castillo. What should have been a salary dump, Getz sends Seattle one of our more interesting prospects, and who plays a position in which he was the only interesting prospect. The best trade was the Bart trade. Otherwise, it shows that our farm still has a long way to go.

Well yea. He whiffed on that one.

Maybe, but he's got a point (although it begs the question of whether not protecting him was the right move.). and as another x-blogger pointed out, 94 mph isn't that great and the Sox really lack high-end pitching prospects (lack ofquality international signings and draft?)

Right. Heck we were in similar positions with Robert, Cease, Crochet and waited for offseason. Angels have/had a lot of good players. Could have an expedited rebuild.

That's the one piece of comfort. To me expecting these players to revert to 2024 form is mostly wishcasting. but if they can hit on one of the 2, it's a Win.

5.5 out of wildcard; 2 behind Pirates. They've won 4/5 post ASB series. Guess they just want to play it out.

I hope they are; otherwise what's point? They can't hit.

Getz loading up with negative WAR. on what planet do we need a 5th OF? We had one and sent him to Philly for chicken feed. Stop listening to these other GMs. They are not you friend.

Who said for nothing? Oh, and grow up.

Like us. At least he's not pitching like a clown and shouldn't cost that much. I'm moving this idea here. For Cease, we received a back end top 100 low-ceiling pitcher, plus 2 A ball players and a middle reliever. H. Smith, 2 A Ball pitchers and a middle reliever for Detmers. That's about what we received for Cease. H. Smith has twice the ceiling of Thorpe and Cease is better than Detmers, but 2 extra months of Detmers and it is July. I'd rather do that for Urena, but I guess that's unrealistic.

And Adams will be put into the acquiring teams' rotation and will outpitch the Robbie Ray/Singer (and his 5.17 FIP) that we acquire. Should have traded for Urena.

Getz is a naive negotiator.

So with Getz apparently seeking another starter; with H. Smith pitching short stints apparently to bring into the pen, is the idea to also move some incumbent relievers out? Are they going to do some buying and selling with the staff? Richards? Murphy (but he's the lefty with velocity; he's been really good once fixing his control).

Schriff is over the top with his schoolboy schtick; but there are others that are worse (like Boston's radio guy). But he doesn't seem to know the league; he should be able to provide some insight into other teams' players and stuff. I thought Benetti was okay, but nothing special. Don't know why he became a "thing."

Leave Schultz alone. Charlotte would be ridiculous. It would make more sense to send Castillo down there to work on the fix that Bannister has identified (at least media house-horses claim that's what happened). Fedde to the pen . Fine, but is Castillo any better?