[Cease To Padres per Passan]

Last time Rosenthal wrote about a specific player was Juan Soto and he was traded a week later.  

Cease will be gone soon, the question is to who?  I believe it will be the O's or Yankees

[Glasnow traded to Dodgers]

If O's don't want to give up their prospects, I would immediately call the Reds as both them and the Cubs would miss out on Glasnow.

[Cease To Padres per Passan]

These are the packages I would accept from teams that are interested in Cease:

Reds: Lowder, Petty, Jorge, Starla (I loved this ask from Getz)

Braves: Kelenic, Grissom, AJSS, and Waldrep

Orioles: Cowser/Kjerstad, Mayo, Beavers

Dodgers: Rushing, Pages, De Paula, and Bruns

[Cease To Padres per Passan]

4 minutes ago, Rusty_Kuntz said:

To me, Petty is younger than Lowder, further along in the system, and he thoroughly dominated last year at A+ and a little AA, albeit only 60 innings. Don't think Lowder has even thrown a professional pitch. 

 

Lowder is a stud.  Him and Petty in the same deal ++ would be a great Cease trade.

[Cease To Padres per Passan]

Just now, baseball_gal_aly said:

this guy nailed it.

 

That's not it at all.  Every MLB insider has said the Sox will get a haul because of his durability, pitch ability, and contract status.

Bennett K has always and will always be a moron.  That dude sucks

[Cease To Padres per Passan]

1 hour ago, SoCalChiSox said:

I.e. add more to Busch and Stone/Frasso. 

Hard no on Busch.  Dude is already 26 years old with barely any MLB experience.  

 

Give me Rushing, Pages, De Paula and Stone

[Cease To Padres per Passan]

2 hours ago, Rusty_Kuntz said:

ATL probably isn't going to trade Smith-Sharver. I think they are planning on having him in the rotation. Past that it's Waldrep who looks like he could be great but is a few years off and can't be the centerpiece. Past that? No one who's been past High A. Just not enough there imo, especially with all pitchers. 

Then Atlanta isn't getting Cease.  If they want Cease, Smith-Sharver has to be in the deal unless they include one of their position players currently on the MLB roster and they aren't going to do that.  

[Cease To Padres per Passan]

I'm gonna guess it's going to be the Dodgers.  They need a ton of pitching and can't afford to wait.

Cease for Rushing, Pages, De Paula and Bruns is going to be my guess

[Bummer to ATL]

Soroka and Shuster will be in the rotation next year.

Lopez will be the starting 2B.  Shewmake could be the starting SS to start the season too.  

Gowens.  If he does well, should be a fast riser through the system.

I'm fine with the trade.  No bullpen piece during a rebuild should be making over 5 million anyway.  Let the kids give it a go.  

 

Now go trade Cease and Eloy

[GM Meetings Thread: MLB Rumors and Elaborate Boras Metaphors]

Lourdes Gurriel Jr makes 0 sense because he has been exclusively at 1B/LF his entire career.  

Duvall could make sense because he can play all 3 OF positions

Gallo could play RF and hit 7/8 in the lineup. Sure

[Benetti to Tigers]

The Sox franchise is just the absolute worst in all of baseball.  They do nothing well and now they can't even retain a homegrown, nationally known target.  Truly pathetic

[It’s official - Getz named SVP & GM]

The Sox have no chance at competing next year.  It's going to be another miserable year on contrary to what JR thinks.  

I would expect to see Cease, Eloy, and TA traded this off season

[Riordan: Physical altercation between TA and Grandal before AS break]

 

 

Keeps getting worse lol

[Mark DeRosa for Manager]

This thing needs to burn from the top down.  

I'm fine with Grifol with Hahn and KW here because nothing would change.

Only way Grifol is gone is if these clowns are gone

[2023 MLB offseason signings and rumors thread]

Must be nice to have committed ownership.

Reinsdorf is a f***ing joke of an owner

[Liam Hendriks coming up in trade discussions]

I'm cool with trading Hendriks.  Sox have more than enough capable bodies to close.  

 

If Hendriks can help this team at position of need and create more depth, then I am all for it

 

[TLR 2022 Thread]

Tony La Russa is by far the worst manager amongst all the competing teams.

We sat through a 5-6 year rebuild only for Jerry Reinsdorf to ruin it with this hire.  

 

TLR is incompetent, unlikable, clueless, and has cost this team far more wins in a year plus than he has won.  And that is what we were promised.  It's been nothing of that.

[**World Soxtalk Championship Wrestling Thread VI**]

On 9/10/2021 at 3:10 PM, scs787 said:

I really hope his "Doofus son in law" gets to take over. Love what he had done with NXT. 

Sad thing is now that NXT just went through their rebranding, Vince is taking over.  Also hearing that many people on NXT are set to be fired.  Ciampa, Gargano ect.

 

Also, difference between AEW and WWE.  AEW was in Cincinnati this past weekend and let Pillman main event that night.  Smackdown was in the MSG 1 day before 9/11.  Zelina Vega had a match scheduled and special gear made because her dad died in the twin towers.  WWE cut her match because of time constraints and she didn't even get on camera.

 

[**World Soxtalk Championship Wrestling Thread VI**]

I went to All Out on Sunday and it was one of the best wrestling shows I have been to.  Lucha Bros/Young Bucks putting on a 5 star match.  Jericho and MJF match was also good.  Punk looked in shape and could go, which was nice to see.  

Seeing Adam Cole and Bryan Danielson come out at the end of show was just spectacular.  I didn't think we would get both in the same segment.  

Also, rumors what I saw on why Cole left WWE is that Vince wanted Cole on Smackdown to be the GM and not even wrestle....

[Trade an asset]

What I would do right now:

Trade Jimmy Lambert and Rutherford for Eduardo Escobar and Joakim Soria

Trade Crochet, Sheets, Adolfo and Thompson for Gallo and Kennedy

[Will Hahn be more active this deadline?]

3 minutes ago, ron883 said:

The Eduardo Escobar trade seems a bit steep tbh. Same with the Marte trade. It really depends on salary considerations for Marte. I'm really high on Jose Rodriguez. I would hate to give him up for a half year rental.

Gotta give to get.  Out of the five players I proposed to send away, four of them have no futures here given the current state of the Sox.  

IMO, capitalize on this great team.  Get more depth and let's win a fricken ring.

[Will Hahn be more active this deadline?]

Deals I would do at the deadline as we speak:

Acquire Ian Kennedy for Kade McClure

Acquire Eduardo Escobar for Jake Burger and Tyler Johnson

Acquire Starling Marte for Micker Adolfo and Jose Rodriguez

[Will Hahn be more active this deadline?]

Escobar and Marte are both rentals.  Definitely can be attainable. 

[Madrigal.]

1 minute ago, caulfield12 said:

How much rope did Gordon Beckham receive during a time when we were expected to compete every year?

I could care less about that.  The opportunity is now and Danny Mendick has been outplaying Madrigal.  If there weren't injuries in the OF, Mendick very well could be replacing Madrigal at 2B

[Madrigal.]

Madrigal isn't very good.  For him to be useful, his OBP needs to be in the 350-380 range because he has 0 power.  

If he gets on base at a 300-330 clip, he's Billy Hamilton and that is a failure at the #4 pick.  

Madrigal has already proven his defense has been average at best and the dude swings at anything.  He needs to pick it up or we'll be looking for a new 2B in a year or two.