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Breslow would be tarred and feathered for trading even more talent to get Sandlin back...

https://www.mlb.com/news/prospect-trade-hauls-all-time-rankings&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiN9rq-3oqVAxXt48kDHagxG5IQFnoECAgQAg&usg=AOvVaw2NGY7eKCyS0i7-mQBXEwfO https://www.mlb.com/news/highest-ranked-prospects-ever-traded Moncada of course comes up...

Anthony has been hurt for most of the season. He's a Top 15-20 mlb talent still, despite the injury...and also with youth in his favor. Harrison and Hamilton/Durbin was even worse.

PDA cycle all hits in reverse order hr triple double single

"Most importantly, Skubal looked more or less like his world-beating self. He threw 19 pitches at 98 mph or harder. His fastball velocity was actually up more than 1 mph on his pre-injury season average (96.6 vs. 97.8). He induced five whiffs on his trademark changeup and three more on his slider. The command was more sufficient than elite, understandable given the context. All that rust will shake off in time." They just don't have the pieces that they're willing to part with like the Dodgers do...or Brewers, but that type of short term move not exactly in their DNA.

Or Teel/Quero favor Roch lol?

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/5-under-the-radar-mlb-trade-targets-from-reid-detmers-to-gavin-sheets-212312817.html Bender Sheets Detmers Ed.Rodriguez

Grebeck was tiny in terms of height but had a lot more power although hardly any speed...and was always more of a jack of all trades infielder, rather than an everyday player, due to the superior infield talent on most of those Sox rosters. Exceeding expectations/underdog/dirtbag types is their main commonality. Feels closer to peak Eckstein than Durham...who was such a dynamic speed/power threat in his 20s.

Two GA Tech picks. Interesting. No Thome/Contreras. Just picking on talent alone.

Ughhhhhhhhhh...

Yes might = future potential prospect suspect may might Brooks Baldwin might hit more homers for the Sox next season than Jacob Gonzalez. That's equally valid. He actually provides more positional versatility and speed. When's the last time a career 625-650 ops milb middle infielder ended up at 775-825+ in the majors over the long term without PEDs? Question still stands...

Murakami and Gonzalez have absolutely nothing in common. He's a career 2B and marginal major league SS...not a first baseman or DH. https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/player/51138/ Here's someone whose ops jumped 147 points at Charlotte compared to his prior mlb average and he didn't even merit consideration for a recall. Fwiw, there was never any question about Murakami's power playing over here if he could make enough contact. Jacob Gonzalez is probably a 15-18 homer guy like a Brooks Baldwin (minus the steals), but he's never going to hit 30-35 homers in a season in the major leagues like his Charlotte pace would indicate.

The Giants and Red Sox already messed up with Kyle Harrison. Robbie Ray should be their first/immediate priority to dump, by far. Then Houser or Mahle (il). Webb is their ace...they don't need to just give him away unless they're doing a complete rebuild. Doubt Posey will admit failure so quickly and easily on both the team and manager. They will also try to find takers for CF Jung Ho Lee.

No way he's that power bitter outside of Charlotte. When's the last time a career 625-650 ops milb middle infielder ended up at 825-875 in the majors over the long term without PEDs?

Everyone will probably say 1990, but that team had Thomas Ventura McDowell Alvarez Fernandez Radinsky…this current team still has to prove they have that kind of staying power.

Justin Dart? That can’t be a real nickname…

I would pick third base then second, but White Sox don’t have any real obviously position openings other than CF potentially. Meidroth and Sam have essentially the same OPS, só LF and second would be the two places to consider. Or 1B/DH, depending on how Murakami situation is resolved. Wouldn’t count on Jacob Gonzalez long term.

College player from a top elite SEC program...CWS participant, etc., the assumption must have been that he was close to a finished project on draft day. And 622 ops in Chicago isn't unexpected. Granted, they have been facing better pitchers than normal recently. The future All Star talk was very premature.

Has to be any position on the infield BUT SS or LF/DH.

Don't be a Negative Nelly... If i's good enough for team bonding/cohesiveness, Sox fans have a sacred duty to faithfully support it 100%.

cojones?

You've just made WestEddy's "enemies of Sox Nation" list...

So much for that speculated upon big league promotion...at least for the time being.

That last place finish in 2025 is a large part of the reason why they're now drafting 1-1. Would it be better to have won more games last year and likely ended up with Emerson/Lackey/Flora/Lombard instead? What is the "excitement value" to the fanbase in having that 1-1 pick to speculate upon ever since December, when no major free agents were close to being signed other than Murakami, who almost randomly fell into their laps at the last second...as his agent reached out to the Sox first as all other 1-2 year contract options evaporated.

It's also borderline psychotic to tell others how to be a fan. Look at the origin of the word fan. It's fanatic, which is the definition of crazy obsession in and of itself. TexSox and Ptac would hardly agree with your black and white definition of how to derive enjoyment out of baseball. You're basically saying Celtics fans are traitors/psychotic for inwardly cheering for Michael Jordan as well when he put up 69 points against them as a young Bull...in an ill-fated losing effort. The game was already out of hand. This wasn't Joe Cowley no hitting the Yankees in the mid 80s but losing 2-1 or whatever. You're going to have an even bigger argument with nba fans of multiple teams this season that deliberately lost games/benched healthy players to get those 1-4 picks. All their coaches GMs and owners are clearly psychotic as well. It's actually called strategy.