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If they had done that over the winter, we wouldn't be here at a low point.

If you are able to get a prospect that profiles potentially to the top half of a rotation for any of our existing starting pitching other than maybe Shane Smith, you send them off. Any vet that gets an offer should go for sure.

Any of those guys that Getz keeps blocking make sense as trade candidates.

This also. They have already had major injury problems, and are about to hit walls with most of the existing rotation in terms of career high innings outputs. Unless they want more surgeries, being careful now is a really good idea. Throwing someone off of the street to fill those innings is smarter than destroying careers. Look if we are going to go the LAD route of pitching guys until they are hurt, we are going to need a lot more arms anyway. Either way, we don't have enough depth, and never really did with anything but on paper.

I mean let's be honest. They might say they want the Sox to be where players come to revive their careers, but in all honesty, right now it's the place they go when no one else wants them.

Any bloodlines to someone like Oscar?

The crazy thing is over his last 7 days Colson is very Capra-esque .063/.167/.125/.292 Dude came back from AZ on a bender, but maybe he needs to go back again, as it has worn off.

A deal like this might have some potential upside. It is probably too late in the season to fix and flip, but in general, this is a much better route than we have been in terms of neverceiling guys.

Shane Smith trends coming into tonight

You hope this is fatigue for Smith, and not the league starting to figure him out.

Hit him clean up.

That's what I was thinking. I would think it should be pitching, since they seem to do that best, but who knows.

This too. Look, if Getz really knew how bad things were, and just lied to everyone about competing soon, he had to know that Robert was always at least a huge injury risk, and the mere act of running him out to play again was a huge gamble. Taking a bit less at his peak was always better than him being hurt and regression. And if he is so worried about how everyone else feels, he should find another job. He should know better than everyone else. As Stacey said, if you're scared, get a dog.

Then Chris Getz should quit his job if he is too scared to do it.

Or better yet, where the GM actually gets to hire his own manager (AJ Hinch) instead of Jerry's drinking buddy.

TA was physically broken by the time he left. I think playing through injuries did him in. It's possible Eloy and Yoan have similar issues as their explosion never came back. Robert has looked healthy, but just lost. Like he is hearing about being selective and trying, but he just ends up overthinking and in between.

They long since missed the window for trading Luis Robert. if the revisionist history really is true that Getz knew this was a major rebuild all along because Rick Hahn burned this franchise to the ground and this was going to be the worst season in baseball history, he 100% missed his window not trading him after 2023. If that was all a media lie, his blew it by not kicking in cash this off season to pick up two of the Reds top prospects per the winter reports. I have long since given up on a nice return for Robert.

So wait, you aren't only posting the good signings are you? Hopefully your next bit will not have the oversights and omissions when you try to make a point.

The Sox adding a $500 million contract to a 50 win roster, with a $50 million payroll would be hilarious. We'd piss away something like $100 to $150 million of his deal waiting for this team to be decent again.

That really feels like the point of no return.

The Thunder spent YEARS trading off Hall of Fame players because they couldn't afford them. They are the poster child of successful rebuild.

Get yourself a location spoofer if needed.

Those reports are non-existent.

Vinny Capra doing it for you? Josh Palacios stan? Josh Rojas fan? Jacob Amaya jaja? Slater Tater? Michael Taylor Sailor? Jank rank? Noda NoDuh? Hopefully you get the bit by now.