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Except he has already shown he would rather do what is best for himself vs the team.

It's like Goldilocks of the trade block.

If the rest of the infrastructure fails, we can always post by gaslight.

A complete Venn circle.

That's fair.

Maybe one person.

That screams "I am not serious". It's like Cleveland asking for DeVries for Kwan.

The funny part is I was one of the few slow rolling the deadline saying I wouldn't be surprised if fewer players got dealt than expected just because of their nature as not being top choices, but if it ends up the Sox are largely in tact? yeah, we got problems here.

Because of course it was.

If we were actually blocking a real 1B, I would care, but we aren't. Get your best bats in the up on a daily basis. Plus this allows for whoever plays 1B to go to C in case of emergency without costing us a DH.

Totally co-sign here. If the Sox have most of these veterans on the roster tonight, Chris Getz absolutely failed in his job.

The Sox inability to develop guys doesn't necessarily mean they were trading for bad players. It could just mean that our player development was garbage.

This is literally all you had to say. without that context, is sure sounds like you are contradicting your own statements.

I will also note that at the very least, not dealing him over last winter with the Cincy offer looks a lot worse in hindsight. I won't even go back how 2023 looks.

Better yet, he gets injured in the next week and doesn't get the option picked up.

What exactly are you saying then? Because I have no idea with all of the extra qualifiers. Prospects are overrated. Not everyone values these guys... what do you mean then?

They would actually sign a superstar contract. The Sox refuse to.

A huge upgrade from worst of all time.

Guessing no one wants him.

Sure, because their ownership will spend, and the Sox wouldn't.

Well you also downgraded prospect values in two straight posts, so it kind of sounded like it was a good deal the non-prospect way.

Didn't you just say this wasn't an impressive return?

Always the fun of reading too much into a short term trend. We saw a bunch moved this time.

I wonder if any other Pope's had this weirdness when dealing with people from their home regions?