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Well I'm six beers in so f*** off.

I'd like this a lot more if we were close to 85 wins on paper than 75.

One of the more lamentable things about being such a sad sack franchise is that (understandably) even the good players will get critiqued and labelled as "losers" at times. It's not fair, but it's predictable.

Balta is an AI chatbot, I'm convinced.

When he kicked the wall or whatever and missed a couple months was exactly when the Mariners went on their little run. He's got talent, he's also a complete head case. A team like the Braves can probably keep him fairly productive; I have no faith the Sox would be able to keep him healthy, let alone productive.

I'd draft him, how cares if he puts up -3 WAR, if there's a 5% chance he's a useful player take it. 2024 is sadly a throwaway year now so at least fill it with some intriguing players.

There's a lot of interesting guys out there. Especially on the pitching side imo. Hopefully they drop the pretense of competing and bring in some of these names. https://www.mlb.com/news/one-intriguing-rule-5-draft-prospect-for-each-team

Good, keep clearing out dead wood. I'll say that given the s%*# sandwich he inherited so far Getz is doing the (straightforward) but necessary first steps to improve the overall state of things over the next few seasons.

Seems like a good deal for the Mets. The money doesn't even matter to them so they can just move on if he sucks. The White Sox would not do that.

The offseason outlook:

Quick: Keppinger or Jon Jay!

it's a bit of a gamble, but Dylan seems pretty durable to me. TINSSAAPP and all that. Maybe there's like a 5% risk of significant value altering injury. I do think after reading @WestEddy's post that there probably are several good offers on the table right now and that it might just be better to move him now. Among other things you'd clear a 40 man spot and some salary, might allow getz (lol, yea right) to make a good move on the margins that wouldn't otherwise be there.

Cease is worth at least a top 50 guy, plus another top 100 guy, and then another couple a ball lottos. You sure as s%*# hold out for at least that return. If you have to wait until next summer, you wait. His value isn't going to decrease in that time, and at worst it will stay the same, with a good chance of increasing. If you can restock with 4-5 top 100 guys (including Montgomery) maybe you can squint and see a decent team in 2025 with the right FA signings.

lol, what a fucking dumpster dive. Why wouldn't have you just give literally any internal option 600 PA and see what happens?

This guy can't hit. He will fit in perfectly.

I doubt he's much more than a middle reliever the rest of his career but just being on a MLB team long enough to get a few contracts will give him generational wealth if he spends it smartly. He was always a good soldier here and I'm sure he's happy to go to a club that has a shot of winning something.

I assume one year before he retires he will hit 280\340\560 and play 140 games. So there is 4 or so. The other 7 years or so I'm thinking 4 or so total. He's not a good player and he doesn't have many paths to value as a full time DH other than a 130 or so wRC+, and he doesn't seem capable of that with any consistency. Trade him while some better franchise still trusts their staff to get the most out of him. It probably won't work for them or Eloy but someone is gonna believe.

Put me on record as predicting Eloy has 8 WAR rest of his career. At best. Trade him for some A ball lotto tickets.

I've been to spring twice since 2016 and spent hundreds on tickets and merch and concessions at camel back. Prior to Covid I would get tix behind Sox dugout at Seattle every year. Last two years? No mas. Zero. Not even MLB.tv. Forget it.

Stacey King remains an employee of JR. Oof.

I'm still not sure he knows what Luol Deng looks like.

I grew up listening to Funk on AM1000 and only when late in his career and he switched to TV did I realize how awful Funk was at actually describing what he was seeing. One of my favorites of his was "And Scottie pokes in a three pointer". How the hell does one "poke" in a shot from 22 feet away?

Occam's razor to me at least suggests the Sox were unhappy with jason's nationa obligations and used that as a pretext to underpay him relative to what the Tigers will. Just seems like example one billion and two of the Sox being cheap on stuff they shouldn't be cheap on as it is important to the fan experience and really compared to other expenses is a drop in the bucket. I don't like Jason, but I'm in a minority on that and this move will no doubt lower the fan experience for many.

Or that after 4 years he still couldn't tell a no doubt HR off the bat.

Is Lee Elia still alive? Let's get him in the booth. Should be entertaining.