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He will play like crap at 80% just like ILoy and Robert have until he eventually gets healthy again, or hurt again. "Pushing" him isn't going to achieve anything, just like the rest of them.

A man's man right here.

We continue to be the dumbest franchise in baseball.

That sounds about right to me as well. Maybe this is even one of those deals where they move 2-3 more lower guys with one guy like Norby at the top if there are guys who are on the fringes that the Sox like so as to help Baltimore with their numbers game, but still put together something that would beat out other teams.

Intellectual stuff from Harry and Hawk? Wat?

an entire minute of talking, but saying nothing at all

Does it really count if this was the 1950s and you have been gone longer than he has been alive?

https://www.baseballamerica.com/teams/2027-chicago-white-sox/prospects/?season=2024

There is a middle ground you are missing here, where instead of throwing the guy 100 innings in the first half of the season, they use him for shorter outings at the beginning of the season, thus leaving him more innings for the end, and for a team who might trade for him to utilize. He's worth more today than he was in March, but he also could still be worth more if he had more innings availability projected.

At least.

If you get him to give up any free agent years, it won't be cheap.

Crochet has to want to he extended.

If you watch interviews with him, he 100% admits that "Hawk" is a made up TV persona.

My point is we control a superstar potential asset for 3.5 years. If you don't get what you want, you take the chance. This isn't a guy who leaves in three months, or is limited ceiling. Rick Hahn did this to perfection with Jose Quintana, waiting almost a full year past his initial other deals to do it. I don't start worrying about depreciation on him until we hit 2 years of control.

And trading Crochet 3 years ago would have been a disaster.

Yeah, this. Hawk was this on steroids.

I don't like operating a large market MLB franchise like cowards. Get value for your players.

Cool. Or it might. That's the game you play.