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5 of those 10 losses were within a FG. They had some poor execution and bad luck down the stretch, where as they completely flipped the script in those same situations this year.

Not that Teel and Braden were a bad return, but no one should be off limits for a young bonafide ace.

Would Sox have gotten more by trading Crochet 2 months into the season? Would we have gotten Roman Anthony instead? It would be fair to grade Getz based on how Crochet trade has ended up.

On one hand it’s good to see Sox making effort to catch up in the IFA market. On the other hand, even if these kids pan out, we won’t see any major contributions from these targets until 2035..

Who cares? He’s young enough to be around for the next Sox competitive team, if that’s within next 3-4 years. If the would be return is something around that if Mullins and Bader deals, I’d rather keep him around for cost of $20M from JR’s pockets to see if he could regain his value under the new coaching staff and clubhouse surrounding him.

Zack Littell, JP Sears. Even Bailey Falter is getting dealt.

With this logic, there is no way Alex Call could have been traded before LRJ.. oh wait..

Anyone checked if Houser and Civale are now relisted as probables for this weekend?

Imagine not being able to move Houser and Civale and letting them walk for nothing.

Fair point, but as it stands there’s a good chance his option doesn’t get picked up next season, and he’ll be playing for much less. And with his injury history, guaranteed money is a much better option than betting on himself.

Like I said early, I would like to see a savvy move from Getz to restructure Robert’s deal before the deadline and extend him at a discount. He’s not worth $20M a year right now but it’s not like we’re getting his replacement any time soon. If you’re betting on him, keep him and work out a better deal.

Yikes.. s%*# return for Mullins. 1) Given how stingy teams have been dealing top prospects the last two TDLs, especially hitting prospects, I’m still shocked LDV got dealt today for an RP (even if it’s a great one). 2) Gotta keep Robert at this point.

Will we see any deals from Sox today? Is Getz OOO?

If Robert doesn’t get deal today it’s likely Sox does truly believe in him and held firm on the asking price. I would also hate to see them cave settle for a light return here. My thought is why not double down and lock him up. If they truly believe he can get back to some form of 2023, then convert his deal to something like 5/$60M with a 4th/5th year TOs and heavy performance based incentives. He’s still young enough to be around for the next competitive team, and we don’t have the next starting CF in the system yet.

Light return for Bader Mendez (#17) and a recent J15 kid. Market not looking good for LouBob.

I’d rather hold on to Robert than to trade with Padres. Sox has not done well in any trades with Padres, and they have no available positional prospects that excites me.

Let’s hope the likes of Vaughn, Sheets and Moncada turning things around getting rescued from White Sox help raise Robert’s trade value.

HS pick but turns 20 in September. Seems to be an impressive athlete with track and basketball background. Not sure if this our last HS pick of the draft.

Sox having a solid draft thus far. No low ceiling starters or college hitters with limited power profiles that are typical in this range. Shelton is an interesting profile and is great value for round 6.

The fact that TOR got 2 MLB ready players who are recently top 5 prospects in the org for Kukuchi and Sox gotten peanuts while giving up much more shows and is getting mocked by national writers speaks to truly awful of a trade that was.

Come on man. We’re comparing Kukuchi to Fedde here. One is a rental player worth 0.2 WAR this year and the other is controlled through next year and 4.7 WAR. Fedde is much, much more valuable, not even close.

That’s one of the bright side of this. Seems they didn’t have a lot of tough negotiations and was the first to sign all their expected signings (left only $50k on the table). Hope that these guys can start seeing game action soon.

I don’t see Saucke and Antonacci being ranked above their draft positions to warrant over slot. If anything they’re ranked lower than their slot on MLB. Even if this is true, what leverage do these guys have? Do they want to go back to college and hope they can get drafted in the top 3 rounds as a senior? I have a hard time seeing that happening. IMO unless the player is ranked way above their draft position and they player has leverage of going back to college and improve their draft position in their senior year, you shouldn’t have to go over slot for 4Y college picks.

I’m not seeing NIL having much effect on college players in mid rounds thus far. Only 4 college players from rounds 3-6 went over slot and Sox has 2 of them. The Sox somehow have to overpay for college players for whatever reason, guys like Steele Walker and Gavin Sheets. A team like Reds who loaded their draft with top 100 players is able to pay their college picks at slot.

The Sox are paying Casey Saucke and Sam Antonacci just about as much as Reds are paying Mike Sirota and Peyton Stovall.