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“Bare minimum: They’re going to catch the baseball, they’re going to be in the right position and make sound decisions,” Getz said. “I look for players that have high baseball IQ, can direct traffic in the middle of the diamond. On the catching position, they build a solid rapport with our pitching staff and they educate our pitchers and they can make adjustments within a game, postgame, pregame. We’ve got a lot of pitchers that are still developing in their careers or once again have something to prove, and I feel like we’ve got two additional coaches with the catchers that we’ve brought in with Max Stassi and [Martín] Maldonado.” lol

Oh, you definitely go O-Line and D-Line heavy. The only way you could justify Jeanty is if the top O-Line are off the board and they tackle it in free agency. Even then, it'd be a hard, hard sell after the chaos we just watched.

How I feel about this:

And logically, I agree with this. This team is the perfect setup for him to try and grow. If he can actually succeed, I'll shut up. Just like I did for Yermin until he capsized. I'm just a sucker for homegrown guys. It's why I haven't given up on Jacob Gonzalez despite a giant 🚨🚨🚨 sounding above him. Or Oscar Colas — last year was perfect for him to try and get a shot at the big league level, but since he wasn't a Getz acquisition we had to bring Tommy Pham aboard to shadow-box his way into being a trade throw in. As for the Dodgers not disclosing something, that's what physicals are for. The Padres hid stuff in 2016 and the only reason I'm still annoyed about that is because the Sox were the only team not offered the opportunity to reverse a trade with them, not because acquiring James Shields was stupid from the start.

I look at Vargas like a lot here looked/look at Moncada, Eloy, Robert, Sosa, Colas, Burger (pre-breakout — the threads about him during his rehab were not kind), Vaughn and Sheets: I don't enjoy watching him and I want him gone. If Rick Hahn traded for him in 2022, he'd be getting shredded by everyone on this board.

You're thinking wrong. The process was sign Fedde (smart), make Kopech a reliever attractive to teams (smart) and try to squeeze blood from a stone from Pham (ehhh). Who cares if the outcome was Miguel Vargas? We all know that sports aren't about outcomes.

All-time flex made even funnier by how awful the Bobcats-era was.

Wooooosh

Let's circle back to this, because I'm a little confused as to why you're using such corporate jargon for a baseball team. Sports is literally all about outcomes, but it's a bit concerning that you don't seem to understand that. Anyway, we can table this for now, because you're going to follow up with some strange logic like "Well, the excellence is showing itself by creating more opportunities for success to rise to the top."

The fact that they can't get ANY former players outside of Harold and those 3 (which are a good three) is so, so sad. For f***'s sake, Ozzie, Beckham, Pods and Frank are on the team payroll. Colson Montgomery and Noah Schultz will have to carry the entirety of SoxFest on their shoulders, because I don't think the other prospects will have endeared themselves at all to fans since their rises were during last year's horror show.

Ok, so your opinion is that being skeptical of people who have previously hurt you is a terrible outlook on life?

This doesn't even include the fact that Baker Mayfield has just gotten better as time has progressed.

To be fair, you'll never guess who had a pretty triple A sLaShLiNe before making the majors.

You think that's bad? Charlotte's NBA team used to be named after Robert Johnson and their next owner made them wear his clothing brand on the court.

This isn't happening until they have new owners.

His boss sucks.

I'm cool with this. I also had to look up who Nick Maton was and learned he's a local boy (as in Illinois) with the nickname "Wolfie." If he resurrects my profile picture from the dead, I'm on board.

1) The Bulls strategy! 2) They need to stop fucking around and just ID actual top candidates. If Ben Johnson wants the job but has to go through 3 rounds of interviews as they narrow it down to 10 finalists, it'll only bite them in the ass.

The fun thing when people list out the Gio-Kopech-Cease-ReyLo-Dunning group (note: only Gio's stock was down when they acquired him, everyone else was trending up) is that it doesn't even include Rodon, since he was just kinda there on the Sox staff. If you include Rodon, that's 4 guys who have been All-Stars / gotten Cy Young votes + Dunning/Kopech - just never at the same time.

Ok, I guess it'd be funny if Roki just never responded to the email.

I mean, we know that he's spoken to the Sox. It could have been a "thank you for the presentation, but I'll pass." But they still talked. The only team I think was confirmed to get iced out was Philly?

Slide 1: How to be a Leader of Men - Lead men - Bear down - Get tough Slide 2: The grind - Wake up at 4:30 a.m. (no alarm) - "Steel the mind" - Workout to 90s playlist - Take notes, pray to sketches of Halas Slide 3: Take the North - Run the ball - Big hits! - O-line? - Lead the men

Made this last year, but it fits. Padme is a 2017/2018 fan.

The Sox have to improve by 40 games to be .500. The only way they get good free agents is if they break the bank, which we know isn't happening.