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We will win this.

I would bet money that package is better than what he goes for.

anyone telegraphed this long is unlikely to happen, imo.

Well it took me a long time to figure out this new forum s%*# so you better lie and say you love it

he was the prominent Sale hater, but yeah many thought it stemmed from like the Sirotka trade or something but was always pretty dumb - but it does seem like it died when everyone was convinced he was highlighting Tatis to get back at the sox and then it turned out he was just a 20 year old mvp candidate or whatever.

I am still of the mind that with as bad as our catchers have been, I still think that they will regress to better performance (i.e. are not this bad), and we won't be in as bad of a spot no matter if we upgrade or not. edit: originally said pitchers, meant catchers.

The problem is even if they don't pan out, they are still worth something - mainly the ability to have used in another trade. Hahn showed how tight the inventory was when he was already dipping into major league 'surplus' to balance the roster in '21 (lynn, kimbrel trades) and had nothing left that was plausibly valuable in 22 to get a difference maker. Shorter version - there is still in opportunity cost in that you can't trade them more than once, so you better be sure you target the right upgrades.

Sources tell me this is the start of something big!

I went to the Mariners game yesterday, what a fun park and time! Wild to get a game time start message at 9 am.

I maintain that these players will cost way, way less than the board thinks. But also that yes we may dangle higher level pitching prospects like MacDougal for a surer thing this/next year. If Detmers lands 2 top 100 guys it is because they are back half pitching prospects. Otherwise I’ll eat my hat.

ChatGPT please rationalize the tweet and my table please

I should have just hired this guy. Fick. Please help

Ugh why did I start this

thanks, grabbed the table from reddit.

Obviously all of my opinions ruled but it’s fun to read just to again be impressed that Getz actually did the impossible thing I didn’t think he could do in this thread - he improved our player development and scouting decisions. Everyone’s opinions are understandable when you remember the learned helplessness we were in where we knew we had to get a player already good because they would only get worse on our team. no zealot like a convert - and I’ve never been more of a believer in a gm than I am or Getz right now.

Enjoyed reading the little house books with my son and the great biography prairie fires on Laura Ingalls Wilder, a great companion to the natural and political disasters surrounding them. Anyway I say that because boy do I hate the new Netflix series. Absolutely bizarre tone, not sure who this show is for at all. Disappointing waste of what seems like a new interest in the books.

it's funny just because it ends with them all committing to each other that he doesn't have to ascend any faster just because of college or needs of mlb roster.

@DirtySox split this out here!

I really would like to know the sports performance convo around Thome.

Trying this for first time: Round Pick Rank Player Position Height Weight DOB School Signed? Amt Slot Amt 1 1 2 Roch Cholowsky SS 6'2" 202 lbs 04/07/2005 UCLA (CA) Yes 10,350,000 11,350,600 CBA-A 34 34 Landon Thome SS 6'0" 177 lbs 11/16/2007 Nazareth Academy (IL) 2 41 27 Cole Prosek 2B 6'1" 195 lbs 06/14/2007 Magnolia Heights HS (MS) 3 77 68 Joey Volchko RHP 6'4" 225 lbs 06/21/2005 Georgia (GA) 4 105 196 Eric Segura RHP 6'2" 214 lbs 01/02/2005 Oregon State (OR) 5 137 192 Cal Scolari RHP 6'4" 220 lbs 04/28/2004 Oregon (OR) Yes 550,000 547,700 6 166 159 Alex Weingartner OF 6'2" 198 lbs 12/13/2007 St. Augustine Prep HS (NJ) 7 195 248 Clay Burdette OF 6'2" 215 lbs 06/11/2004 Xavier (OH) 8 225 — Jayson Jones 3B 6'3" 225 lbs 08/05/2003 Wichita State (KS) 9 255 — Luke Craytor RHP 6'5" 220 lbs 03/19/2004 Virginia Tech (VA) 10 285 — Matthew Bucciero OF 6'2" 225 lbs 10/18/2004 Fairfield (CT) 11 315 162 Kyle Casteel RHP 6'4" 205 lbs 02/11/2008 Butler HS (PA) Yes 1,250,000 125,000 12 345 226 Braden Holcomb OF 6'4" 245 lbs 10/28/2004 Vanderbilt (TN) 13 375 — Grayson Fitzwater 1B 6'1" 215 lbs 01/05/2004 Virginia Military Institute (VA) 14 405 — Isaac Yeager RHP 6'6" 255 lbs 09/27/2003 Oregon State (OR) 15 435 250 Cameron Johnson LHP 6'6" 256 lbs 01/11/2005 Oklahoma (OK) 16 465 — Darin Horn RHP 6'4" 200 lbs 03/17/2003 Coastal Carolina (SC) 17 495 — Crew McChesney OF 6'0" 185 lbs 12/30/2004 Brigham Young (UT) 18 525 — Jackson Bergman RHP 6'6" 225 lbs 08/11/2003 Indiana (IN) 19 555 — Jake Berkland SS 5'9" 155 lbs 08/13/2005 Minnesota State-Mankato (MN) 20 585 — Connor Fennell RHP 6'1" 183 lbs 04/20/2005 Vanderbilt (TN)

he'll play 12 games, they will all be vs. us, and he'll hit .450 with 6 home runs

If the guardians trade for him you know what will happen

I just saw a trade hypothetical of the guardians getting Robert and it made me so mad.

Obsessively focusing on a single bad draft pick as a demographic problem is why this board cheered avoiding high school and “athletes” over ball players just because of Courtney Hawkins. Instead we got a bunch of fat college corner players who sucked and nobody blamed it on college.

Given sox predilection for height, I can somewhat imagine this.