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And decent organizations see their guys get past it.

The Sox seem to have more faith in 3other teams 30s relievers than they do in developing their own young pitchers by their own recent moves. If they believed in their own people, why do they need other people's journeyman in another in a string of 100+ loss seasons, instead of developing their own for pennies on the dollar?

Looks like he is an 18 YO Cuban 3b and ranked #33 in MLBs top 50 international prospects.

It's the continued gaslighting of Sox fans who are supposed to believe that we fixed all of the drafting, scouting, and development problems in the organization with all of the new hires, titles, and the rest, while also believing that needing to bring a bunch of bad to mediocre players at the expense of recent draft picks and prospects, as well as the current arrivals playing time, because they aren't good enough to be developed into usable major league pieces. At best this is a 4-5 year process, but if this group still doesn't have faith in their own ability to train up their own people, this is going to be a lost decade until someone takes over for Jerry and puts real adults in charge.

Which is why they keep blocking them and trading them away, to much fanfare.

It's really scary that Sox management doesn't seem to believe in their own ability to develop nobodies either as now we are sending prospects and signing other people's nobodies. The signing part doesn't bother me as bad as giving up prospects for them. They seem to have zero faith in their own people's ability to create players, even sending out kids they just drafted.

The best I can do is nobodies.

Hadn't really thought about this in terms of Montgomery, but if this blocks them from rushing him, that's at least a positive. I guess we will see.

100% this. And the quality of this signing is 100% tied to how he is used.

Again this is what he SHOULD be. But recent vintages of roster management haven't looked like this. Getz has very actively put mediocre veterans in front of young players who should be playing, even those ones he acquired recently.

This dude seems to be a pretty bad SS defensively, so it would not be really surprising.

With as many complete unknows as we have, I am ok with guys like this sprinkled into the roster IF THEY ARE USED RIGHT*. *we all know they probably won't be used right

Judging by numbers and previous experience, feels like a $3-5 million signing, maybe with an option for next year.

That's never stopped the Sox before. But really he does help on defense in most spots, especially the way the Sox will use him.

2 fWAR last year with a negative offensive rating. Big time positive UZR/150 at 2b, positive Lf/RF numbers, and really negative at SS, 9 runs below average at 3b

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Got it. You are calling him a liar and mocking him. Not sure what the over the top exaggeration and hyperbole was about, because there is about a hundred miles of space between this post and a "better haul" as was previously said, but the rumor is obviously out there, so you can save the hysterics for the next offense.

I have no idea what you are actually trying to say here.

We do have a poster who swears this is true

Underrated response.

He's a 31 year old journeyman who hasn't been able to stick in the majors and was going to be unemployed. There is a metric fuckton of them on the market.

You sign guys like this on the FA market, and not give up your guys to get them. Getting a reliever to flip isn't the problem, it is diminishing your return by wasting your farm system to get them.

It feels like Getz thinks he made 1 good trade last year so now he is doing everything he can to replicate it. It is also disappointing he still seems to have zero faith in his drafting, scouting, and development teams because he is already trading away the people he brought in for pennies.

Deals like this one which keep happening also tells me that Getz has zero faith in player development still.

Implied, but yeah.