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Great to see. Great start to his AA career .

Drew McDaniel . Thanks for the info. May have found a diamond in the rough. I look forward to learning more about him .

Usually he's wild as hell though. Kopech needs to get it right. Sox can't get it right unless Kopech holds up his end. Holding him longer does not guarantee better results.

There's a chance Clevinger is pushed back to open the Orioles series and Nastrini starts tomorrow.

Greg the only guys likely traded are those guys who have only a year or 2 left on their contracts and/or who were signed specifically hoping for enough of a bounce back in their careers to be traded. Moncada and Eloy didn't stay healthy enough to even present that opportunity. They'll be gone next year along with their inflated salaries. Soroka , Brebbia, Hill, Kopech, DeJong, Pham ,Wilson , Flexen all likely gone if they can find buyers for them. No one will take Benintendi's contract.Mendick is a 30 yr old jouneyman. Who are they supposed to keep ? Next year regardless is looking like a 3rd straight year of 100 losses no matter what they do unless JR opens his wallet back up a lot more than expected . And even if he does what then ? Anyone any good costs more than JR would pay. The leftovers are going to be guys just as likely to be bad as good but who cost a minimum of $10-20M per year for multiple years . This is where Hahn had to live and most of his signings in that price range were terrible.

Unlike Mr. Glass, Eloy is not a villain. There's no need to hate him. He is what he is. He can keep coming back and keep getting injured with another team and enjoy an early retirement with millions.

If he can pitch more like tonight leading up to the deadline he's as good as gone.

5 of 6 in save opportunities. Tonight wasn't a save situation but that was a dominant inning. As good as any 1 inning we've seen from him this year.

That's a big 5-0 White Sox Weiner on $1 Hot Dog Night in Toronto. Speaking of weiners, Danny Mendick blasted a 2 out 2 run double high off the fence in LF to give the Sox their final 2 runs. Crochet pitched 6 innings of 2 hit shutout baseball. Leasure, Brebbia and Kopech each pitched an inning without any runs . Kopech K'd all 3 hitters he faced looking. Sox snap a 4 game losing streak with the rubber match tomorrow, Bassitt v. Clevinger. Weiners for everyone !

Big Danny Dick 2out 2 run double !

PF and NH gone

He got way up when he robbed the HR in NY.

Too early for the NH watch ?

Theres also Wilmer Difo , 32, an MLB veteran who it looks like can play 2nd base pretty good from some recent highlite reels I've seen. He also looks like a better hitter than Lopez from his previous time in the bigs . He's doing pretty good so far in Charlotte. AAAA guy for sure and just another deck chair but he fits right in and may be a slight upgrade over most of the guys you mentioned.

I'd have to agree with your assessment and there's the unknown of ownership be it JR operating as he always has or a new owner. I also said 4 or 5 years down the road so if someone thinks it's 3 to get into a playoff game which was my other caveat besides ownership to qualify as a contender fine by me. But realistically the chances of making the playoffs in a shorter time period diminishes your chances of being correct. Not you T R U , I agree with you . Too many unknowns and counting on many prospects to play well when just Montgomery is expected to arrive in 2025. Arriving and thriving never seen to match up at the same time .

If you look at the 2024 Sox they are building from nothing. I don't see a many players who the Sox have on the MLB team now that will still be here when the 2027 season starts. Maybe Korey Lee and Ramos. Realistically who turns into a quality MLB player from AA in just 3 years from now ? Anyone who comes up will be maybe I'm their 2nd season . Others will be rookies or trying to get a foothold up here. I try not to overestimate the talent so I'm conservative with my estimates and knowing it'll take more than a few players from the farm to field a team capable of playing a wild card playoff game. I also don't know if JR will still be in charge or what level of talent will be brought back from a Robert trade or whoever else they get this deadline. I'd also feel better about massive upgrades in how they operate internationally and with player development. And while I don't condemn Getz because of JR I don't have much faith in the organization as a whole if JR is still in charge.

Did we ever figure out what is was that made him appear to have vertigo ? Was that 2023 ? I remember his play in CF was not very good at the time but his hitting didn't seem to suffer all that much and he put up best season of health and hitting even though you list 6 injuries in 2023.

Come on Lip. You know who the owner is. You know the budget was cut tremendously this year. You heard Reinsdorf say the Sox cannot compete at their current location. Use your head. Getz is a pawn in whatever game Reinsdorf is playing. He's got nothing to work with except the decent amount of talent that's in AA right now. His big acquisition was Fedde, a guy no one else of the other teams thought highly enough of to outbid the Sox even though most teams need starting pitching. All Fedde has to do is not implode for 2 more months. We'll see what type of talent he gets and the level in the system it goes to. Same thing with Pham. Cease brought in 3 prospects that slotted in our top 10 and he rolled the dice that Wilson might fetch a better prospect than a 4th prospect the Padres might've been offering. Every pitcher after Fedde was the reason he hired Bannister as are any yet to be acquired. When all you can do is scrounge among players that every other team rejected you can thank Reinsdorf for that. There's been no solid evidence that Getz has done much wrong. He hasn't been on the job long enough yet to decide that all the roster churning he's doing will make any difference. He knows they are at a minimum looking 4 or 5 years down the road. And even then who knows where thing will stand with the franchise . All we can do is hope he brings in more talent and that it develops enough to move the needle going forward with whatever JR has up his sleeve. I don't know if Getz will be any better or worse than any other pawn JR hired to GM the team but I do know that JR doesn't pay for talent because they refuse to operate under the constraints JR puts on them. When was the last time a JR hire was considered among the very best in any part of the organization ? Now imagine the best people at multiple key levels of the organization instead of just one position without Reinsdorf's short sighted approach on how to be a competitive winning organization .

He hit 96/97 consistently through the 1st 3 innings.Didnt seem to have control..Walked 4 guys but got out of the jams so looks like he can maintain it a certain amount of pitchers. I'm not sure how many pitches he had through those 1st three innings. I didn't see anything above 94 in his 4th inning but turned out to be either his best or 2nd best inning of the 4. I know people think he's toast but if you can start throwing strikes at 96/97 and find your command he'd get much better results and the Sox have 2 months to figure out how to get the most value out of him. Maybe he's just been holding back as a starter trying to go 5 or 6 innings by not throwing at max effort . He's had a tough row to hoe with all the injuries and is still young enough to readjust. There are mental and physical things to push through. That takes time to happen . It's hard enough to just figure out that your best that worked in the past isn't going to consistently get MLB hitters out and you have to add a pitch that can take years to figure out. Steve Stone said he tried a change up many times but could never get it right or feel comfortable with it. There are just so many different things you can try. As a player you could win Cy Young or MVP but that doesn't mean you ever stop trying to improve . Most players have enough talent to be decent MLB players but the true secret to succeed is often reinventing yourself. You're constantly revolving and developing as your body and strengths change.This is why we so often hear, yet disregard, that development isn't linear. It's also why player development at every level is so important. Baseball is so unique and required a great deal of patience and mental fortitude to work through many failures .

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2 runs that inning was a nice surprise. Pedro loading the line up with RHH. Likely takes more though to beat the Yanks. Julks solo shot to LF . Lee walked Remillard tripled Lee home. Remillard picked off 3rd with 1 out. Did someone miss a sign ? What happened there ?

Lots of people here agreed with that decision.

Is Nastrini going anywhere ? Is Thorpe ? is Cannon ? Horn came back and got traded for cash . Can we still not hit on some of the youngsters since we still have them to play the 2nd half and next year ? Why exactly should I trust your evaluation of talent ? You don't know who is going to move the needle . If you want to downplay the pitcher we got for a month of Grossmans low salary that's cool. Just remember to throw in that if Grossman was never acquired and Fletcher was still up we never get that pitcher while burning service time on Fletcher. Is that really better ? And now Fletcher is back up no fuss no muss.

You say why would he panic but then you said he did panic. Why would you consider the edition of Pham ,Clevinger or Grossman panic moves ? Clearly those guys wanted too much money in the off season and the price for them went down enough to offer them a contract after the season started. It's already paid off by trading Grossman. Pham should get you something decent too. Trading Wilson will add to the return on the Cease trade after paying his salary for a 1/2 season. If no one again wants Clevinger at least he might be able to eat some innings and keep the BP arms fresher. The last 14 games the BP has an ERA of 2.66 and the 4 innings by Soroka today turned out well. He was at 96/97 until the the pitch count got a bit higher in his 4th inning of work . There is still a live arm in the guy, how long it lasts seems to be the issue. If they want to keep the BP arms fresher and get prospects for Brebbia, Wilson, Soroka and Kopech they need innings from the starting pitching. I'd give Getz a C just because he had a lot of holes to fill and no money to work with. He'll likely get little to nothing for the guys he inherited like Moncada,Eloy, Vaughn, and Sheets. Most of what he gets will come from the guys he acquired. The guys he inherited were costly and injury prone and once again proved it. You're only using 1 option per season when u call up a minor leaguer and send him back down if he doesn't perform. You're burning less service time yo-yoing them while a guy like Grossman played enough to net you an arm and Pham will get you more. He gave Ortega a shot and he didn't perform so he's gone and replaced by Julks. Maybe if you sift through enough trash you find a Muncy , or JD Martinez or get a Yordan Alvarez in a trade. Plenty of good players started in other organizations then found their niche. Between the last trade deadline deals and the Cease trade there's been a good amount of talent added to the minors. I doubt Getz can get as much this deadline but he doesn't have as much to work with .

What's so hard to understand ? The more projects you get the better the chance to turn a couple into a minor leaguer. Remember Fedde was the huge expenditure at $15M for 2 years. You read way too much into things. He didn't panic. He couldn't buy guys in the off season but prices came down once the season started. Was Pham a panic move or a smart move ? Did the addition of Grossman work out ? It did.