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Sir, we have Dominic Fletcher

A destination pitchers will want to go to.

He got run over by the Grifol Train that was going too FASTs

Sir, this is a SoxTalk

Pedro literally said it's not about who performs the best in Spring Training. Because Pedro is, well, dumb.

Moustakas with the edge of the infield power.

In 4 hours, Tray will need to consult his doctor.

They need to reframe their perspective from wanting to watch a competitive team to watching a comedic team.

From this spring or the last three years in general?

Homsar is twice the man.

I mean, Liam kinda cited SoxTalk when he signed here. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

BITIM HAS BEEN FREED

The highlight of last season was a fan getting shot by a mystery bullet in the stadium. I think we're allowed to direct some bitterness at an owner, front office and manager that shovel more s%*# than the poopsmith from Homestar Runner.

Pitchers are salivating at this 3-1 score though

This is key. They bring in Maldonado - who Pedro clearly views as his juggernaut, .191 hitter and league-worst defensive stalwart - as the starter. After they brought in Max Stassi as the vet. At the same time, they have Korey Lee (who was bad last year, yes, and could use seasoning), Quero (hopefully the future), Hackenberg (who could be a good backup in the future, but definitely needs time in AAA) and Perez (yes, bad, but again, Maldonado). With Stassi around there was no need to give $4M to the second worst catcher in the league (Eric Haase barely edges him out).

If I had to diagnose this thread, I'd say it's more about the fact that Getz is trying to half-ass build a "win-now" roster of older guys while trading youth. I'm ambivalent towards moving Thompson overall cause he got buried. But it might have been worth seeing him as a reliever. This isn't the Mena trade, which reeks of "call J.G. Wentworth, because I need a warm body in RF now!" The Sox are familiar with Horn, he's a lefty reliever which (as many have pointed out) is worth its weight in gold (or Nicky Lopez, Mike Soroka +++). He could become very valuable, or he could be s%*#! It's just that Getz' philosophy is "with Paul DeJong's glove, anything is possible for our pitchers. Empty the farm! Go!" Edit: He's obviously not emptying the farm, but that's clearly why people are panicking. Because this is what the prior regime - that Getz was a part of - did.

Oh, I was just listening to the podcast walking my dog when I heard that line and had a moment of "this dude is truly awful at the spin." Just say that you expect the best from them, we're working with them, etc. A lot like his team, Grifol likes to make unforced errors.

I know Spring Training is fluffy than marshmallows, but his interview with Vinnie Duber was hysterical. Time-stamped for your listening pleasure (misery)? On DeJong: "Has done it before. He didn't lose it. It's still there." - Hit .207 last year, was released by 2 teams. Hit under .200 in 2021 and 2022. On Lopez: "He hit .300 in the American League a few years ago." - So did former batting champion Tim Anderson! Lopez is a career .249 hitter, so 2021 is currently an outlier. On Maldonado: "I don't feel that he's a .180 hitter." - Technically correct since 2019. He's been a .191 hitter in five seasons since then. Grifol is going to be like TLR with Leury Garcia with us, but with 3 terrible hitters.

I didn't realize Getz posted here and was so vitriolic

I'm fine with this because Thompson hasn't figured it out and is buried on the depth chart (I wonder who was in charge of developing him ?), but man, the Tepera trade seems so worthless in retrospect. Also, Getz feels like he's in MLB: The Show mode.

Everyone knows you trade the 20-year-old with a plus curve for the 26-year-old platoon OF.

Gallantly ignores Chris Bassitt and Gio Gonzalez (for Nick Swisher)

1) Bears decide they like Maye more 2) Trade down to Commanders, take Maye 3) Use other picks from Commanders trade, hypothetical Fields trade and more to move from #9 to #3 4) Take Harrison 5) ??? 6) Profit Mostly likely it's 1) Take Williams 2) Take Odzune/Bowers 3) Trade Fields for some extra picks

I get to actually claim bona fides, because I picked which Dash-Cyclones game I attended based on him pitching (I wanted to see him or Vera). His curve made the Cyclones hitters look silly. Unfortunately this past year (when he was in AA), I got Dalquist. My wife's input on Dalquist was "he should stop pitching so poorly."