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I was under the impression he was Tony's guy.

I did not think I would see Julks before Robinson and Mead.

Again, with no context it is impossible to know what he is talking about, so everyone is just going to project on to this whatever they want.

This was on my bingo card, however.

Other GMs hate Chris Getz was not on my bingo card. Would have been worth explaining why a bit if you are going to say it out loud

Look, no matter how many special kids are in this draft, the Sox will select 1 pick later.

So when your boss puts limitations on you, and tells you that you can't spend in a segment of the baseball economy, you either spend what he tells you can spend on, or you quit.

Snitch.

Or if @Chisoxfn sees this

I do not care about 2025, or even 2026. These seasons should 100% be about accumulating assets for our next playoff team.

Why not both? But holding on to guys who are leaving in two months doesn't make a lick of sense.

The idea is pretty obviously that if you look at someone like Adrian Houser who has one year of control left, and then the return they got where they got somewhere around 18 years worth of control back from Tampa Bay that gives you more opportunity to capture future players with control. No matter how good, or bad Houser is, he is gone in a year. Either way we have 2 more months with him, and we have to try to resign him in the free agent market. But now we have three other players who might help us in the future, instead of nothing.

I mean obviously that is going to happen (playing the games), but if you are sitting here on August 1st talking about what you think is going to happen in the near future, a projection system isn't a bad thing to cite.

I've said it before, and I will say it again. If you come to Soxtalk needing to hear only your opinion reflected back at you in similar words, you are on the wrong website. This will never be that place.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6527576/2025/08/01/mlb-trade-deadline-grades-2025/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=6062851&source=dailyemail

I agree that if we leave out all of the bad parts, the Sox have been an OK team.

In all seriousness, I would expect the Sox to look at the pitchers and OFs that hit the wire.

Again, get Lenyn Sosa a LF glove and make room for this dude on the IF.

Can I interest any other MLB team in a slightly used Josh Rojas/

There has been talk of Grant Taylor being a reliever for years. The difference? Shane Smith has four months of history at MLB of being a really good starting pitcher. Grant Taylor has never been able to do that at the MiLB level

The Twins did have the #10 farm system at MLB before all of these trades, so it isn't unreasonable to think they would have a big jump.

Yeah, we aren't talking Panda Express here.

Shane Smith into the bullpen next year? Maybe at some point in August or September to finish the year and keep innings down, but there has to be a near zero chance of that happening to start next year.

Now that is a busy deadline.

This thought is exactly what prompted my initial "the money will be spent" statement.