TaylorStSox

Shut up. Adults are talking.

They didn't rush him. They gave him the opportunity to enter the majors early and then turned him into a front of the rotation starter. Yeah Jerry sucks, but using every Sox move as an opportunity to disparage every member of the Sox is so fucking tired. The Sox actually have tons of competent people working under a shitting owner. Don't devalue them. f*** that.

There's never been a scenario where an MLB team turned a reliever into a starter and doubled his innings? Wtf? Of course it affects his "career" innings. He was drafted 3 years ago.

Duh

The White Sox gave him the opportunity to showcase his value by allowing him to start.

The Sox certainly aren't pushing him. They're limiting his innings and gave him the opportunity to start when most organizations would have kept him in the pen. This is bullshit, man.

Let's remember that 4 months ago crochet was an afterthought with zero value. The White Sox gave him every opportunity to improve his own earning potential. For him to sabotage the organization is backhanded af. f*** him.

I'm generally very much pro worker, but f*** Garrett Crochet for doing this. It's insulting to every pitcher who came before him.

Maybe prime Scherzer or Verlander could have pulled this stunt, but not 4 months of good Garrett Crochet.

And his employer's won't give a s%*# about his independent doctor's opinion. This is about about MLB owners relinquishing leverage. Crochet isn't that powerful.

I don't think Crochet should be forced to pitch to injury, but if he actually tries to use an extension to leverage his trade value, he's done. MLB is bigger than Garrett Crochet. The league will destroy him before they give that much leverage to players.

If the pitcher announces that he won't pitch past a certain point if traded, MLB will murder him. This isn't hypothetical. Crochet's team is laying a sign and trade ultimatum. This isn't the NBA. MLB will crush him.

And MLB can respond by blackballing him. We've already seen MLB collude on Boras clients and Bauer over the last couple years. I wouldn't be surprised if the owners used Crochet as an example. He's playing a dangerous game.

We're working under the assumption that Crochet will refuse to pitch without a contract extension. If traded, he has input, but not the final say.

The team employs the physicians, not the player.

Obviously. However, that doesn't give him the latitude to break his contractual obligations to his employer. I have the risk of being hit by a car on my way to work, that doesn't preclude me from my employer's demand that I come back to the office.

You're trying to quantify the likelihood of injury. Good luck with that.

I can't imagine shitting on Dylan Cease of Drew Thorpe just to win Internet points.

Good luck trying to make this quantifiable. It's a laughable proposal.

Undrafted players aren't under contract.

If he just straight up refuses to pitch, then teams will collude and refuse to pay him. There's no chance MLB gives players the power to sit out while actively under contract. They will crush him.

He doesn't dictate his inning limit, his employer does. Crochet has zero leverage here.

If we don't trade him, we just shut him down and do it in the off-season. There's zero risk here.

This isn't the NBA. Crochet has no leverage in this situation.

The idea that the Sox would take less for Robert to get Benintendi off the books is pretty unfounded and absurd. Their cheapness is more about investment than payroll.