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We've got our own Tungsten Arm O'Doyle stat!

Well now I feel sad

I'm not unconvinced that MLB: The Show could be a better GM and manager

Grandal at least put up a good 2020 and good (albeit injured) 2021. Let me show you the video that sums up Maldonado's seasons before signing with the Sox:

Deserves every penny of that $4M. After all, we've been told ad nauseum that it was Grandal holding the team back and that once he was gone, any catcher would be an upgrade.

Changeup on that strikeout was nasty

Well, Jerry is the obvious answer

But what about the campfire milkshake?!

I love that the league tons of anti-tanking rules and Getz is operating as if none of them were put in place.

Bro it's not even May

I should probably add that the no-rush rotation lasted until April and they don't even have injuries to blame. Just pure suck.

I love that us Getz detractors were told ad nauseum that pitchers like Flexen, Clevinger, Soroka and Fedde were brought on board specifically to avoid rushing guys like Nastrini and Cannon. And here we are.

Maldonado Gang rise up!

It has also been shown — repeatedly — that Reinsdorf only moves on from the status quo if that status quo is national embarrassment. It's why Thibs got canned (leaking stuff to the press that show Bulls dysfunction), why GarPax got jettisoned (the ASG protests), KW/Hahn finally being fired, etc. Now imagine if the status quo is national embarrassment? Getz has done f*** and all to show that he can put together a roster, with his best MLB acquisition so far being (using fWAR for the sake of something quantifiable)...Kevin Pillar and Steven Wilson. So a guy that they dicked around in free agency and a reliever that was part of a trade package for their ace. Pedro will be this year's sacrificial lamb, but if they're hysterically bad (I'm talking minus-60 wins) while Reinsdorf is trying to get a stadium deal — Getz might actually feel heat. If he gets them to even 70 wins, his job is safe.

Sheets is a what now?

Time to reuse this.

I enjoy that Getz says this after adding 23 new players to the 40 man roster.

Lol, Greg I think I only have hard copies after a hard drive crashed, but if I find it in emails to my professors I'll DM it to you.

Eh, to be fair, Lopez and Soroka are decent buy-low fliers that were included with Bummer. The rest, however...

Hey asshole: I wrote my thesis on Minnie Minoso, watch the Dash every time they come to Brooklyn, bought my dad artwork of Aparicio, own jerseys and hat for three of their minor league teams in addition to the Sox swag that makes up my wardrobe and I'll be dead before I root for the team that failed my grandfather before he died (my mom's side was Cubs fans, she converted). Despite all that, I want the owner who's stomped on my fandom, his lackey GM and braindead manager to get their just desserts. But you go back to pissing on what could be the best thing for the Sox in decades in the form of a new stadium because you've got some vendetta against dirt.

This is my reminder that, unlike his approach to trading Cease, Getz blew his load on adding guys like DeJong and Maldonado

Martin Maldonado is clearly worth the $4M to be a coach on the field, or so I've been told.

With Getz so good at being a GM, they don't need the #1 pick.

Amazing that Maldonado is still far and away the worst.

Lee DHing is so mind boggling in its own right. He's better defensively than Maldonado except for reputation. You can hit Gavin at DH because splits don't matter when one hitter has a .083 average with a .245 OPS and the other a .333 average with a 1.159 OPS. Not only is this team poorly built because Getz can't GM, Pedro can't even make simple managerial moves that a computer could make.