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The return is fine. We knew Paul DeJong was not going to net anything of real value. This pitcher is at least doing well in A-ball. Who knows?

My guess is we'll see DeJong and Brebbia moved near the deadline for little, and Crochet stays. We'll hear several teams were close but no one matched up well enough.

Brebbia had been pitching well recently. Hopefully his giving up the grand slam to Witt doesn't hurt his value too much...not that we'd expect much back for him.

After seeing how badly Getz handled the Fedde/Pham/Kopech trade, he can't be trusted with trying to maximize Robert's value right now. Even a good GM could only get .$75 on the dollar. Robert has not been great this year. Hopefully he can get back on track and finish the season strong. Maybe trade him in the off season.

Yeah, true. But Fedde alone is worth Vargas and one of those guys.

I can understand being hopeful of a couple promising Dodgers prospects and acquiring them for the future...the far future, but you need to get more. A guy or two in the team's top 15 that could help the team in 2025. I know Vargas will get much more playing time in Chicago, and maybe he'll be fine. But damn, this an historically bad trade.

Bruce hasn't deleted his post yet, so... If it's both Vargases (Vargi?), it's a better deal.

Is Bruce Levine seeing stuff no one else is, or is he uninformed?

I'm holding out hope for one or two more guys, hopefully from STL. I realize the prospects from LA could be good, but we're talking 2027.

Yeah, three potential future guys...maybe.

Fedde?

Some Cubs fans and media are all sad that Morel was traded, but this is a good trade for the Cubs. Morel is not hitting well this year, and despite being "one of the future Chicago stars" is not very good. Peredes is controlled for four more seasons and is a better player.

Just coming to share this. Interesting.

If he doesn't want to pitch in the post season, he can stay with the Sox...for like a long time.

That's a haul for Crochet. And the Robert trade seems pretty light. I think if either guy gets traded, the Crochet return will be lighter, and the Robert return would be a little better.

Yeah, Atlanta just signed a 35 year old Whit Merrifield to fill a hole in the infield.

If some team thinks they can help Kopech get out of his own head, I could see the Sox getting a nice return. Maybe him going to a contender that uses him appropriately will help. The guy has an electric arm and throws nothing straight. A 100+ mph fastball that moves is a hell of a weapon. We saw the best of Kopech in his immaculate inning, but we've seen the worst of Kopech often enough. One mistake, by him or the defense, and he melts down. I like Kopech, but I'm ready for him to move on.

Of all the things wrong with the Sox, this is very low on the list of stuff I care about. But, I'll offer my opinion anyway. If the team was good or at least not abysmally bad, Schriffen might be somewhat better. He was thrown into an impossible position, replacing a well-liked and very good play-by-play guy and having to give play-by-play of an historically bad team. That being said, I don't know how much better he'll get as the team gets better...or even if he'll be around when the team is better. I'm in the camp that liked Jason but wasn't devastated by him leaving. He's great at what he does, and as someone else said, away from Steve he's even better. I'm more pissed about why he left, with the Sox being the shitty organization they are. I thought that if Jason were to leave it would be for a national spot, not the damn Detroit Tigers.

Jimenez feels soreness in his hamstring in the first series after the break but decides to play through the pain. When running to 1st base a few days later, his leg literally falls off. Toward the end of July, after a night of drinking, Getz finds a loophole in his contract and trades himself to the Miami Marlins. The Sox receive Billy the Martin in return. After a barrage of trades, the Sox are desperate for warm bodies and sign Abreu and TA. Jose actually plays well but TA promptly gets into a brawl with Josh Naylor. Naylor absorbs TA like the blob. The Sox, looking to increase attendance, have a half-off campfire milkshake night. The park sells out, but they run out of ice cream in the fourth inning. JR, looking for more money, installs tolls booths at each restroom. The Sox have a new slogan: White Sox Baseball - Bring Quarters, Bitches!

Robert probably had the same thought we all had from the beginning of the inning. Once Kopech let the first batter reach, we all knew the game was over. Sure, he should have thrown the ball, but do we care? Not really.

Paul DeJong is better than Tim Anderson, and I never thought I'd type that sentence. Hell, Nicky Lopez is better than TA right now. The Sox have at least four players who can play 2B and SS better than TA.

After a very slow start, Vaughn is on pace for about 20 HRs, 30 2Bs, and 75 RBIs, which is where many of us thought he'd be back before the season started. Of course, he'll need to be more like June Vaughn going forward. Time will tell.

The Bummer trade was the definition of quantity over quality. Naperville Nicky has been exactly what he has been and what we expected. Soroka was terrible as a starter and is better out of the pen but still meh. Shuster has been okay but his walks to strikeout ratio is not good. Shewmake started out decent and fell off a damn cliff. And Gowens is still an unknown. At the time of the trade, I was optimistic a player or two would work out. I was hopeful that a change of scenery would benefit Soroka, but he will probably never return to form after the injuries.

Can't wait for this guy to be gone. This is beyond ridiculous.

I've seen the possibility of including Benintendi on a trade of Robert and taking less of a return several times. I don't know how to feel about that. Don't get me wrong, I want Benintendi gone as much as anyone else, but the idea of taking a subpar return on Robert makes me ill. However, I don't see the Sox getting a massive haul for Robert if he's traded alone. He's shown to be injury prone, and who knows if that'll improve any as he ages. As far as the money he's owed, it's not bad at all...if he can play 85%+ of the time.