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Fairly certain Sox just picked up a little bit of Pham's $500k assignment bonus for being traded. Its probably safe to assume Pham had basically no surplus value and was in fact just a throw in.

Very unlikely. Cash is always just an option in case they don’t want one of the players they agreed to select from. Dodgers didn’t even send anyone making any $; cash doesn’t make any sense.

It’s a 30 game sample, yes. But his minor league sample is quite good. Look, I’m not defending the trade, but Vargas is a much better player than 90% of Sox fans are giving them credit for. Return should have included one of STLs best prospects as well, tho.

DeJong sucks at 3B. Hopefully we can end that experiment after today.

Love when Luis hits.

https://youtu.be/TAwDG4XFhwc?si=ETxvnMAuedIWFwsc

I agree with this. The trade sucks. They should have gotten a better centerpiece. But Vargas has a chance to be a solid offensive producer; I mean he’s got a 108 wRC+ this year. I haven’t looked, but imagine that’d be top 2 on the Sox easily.

All that to just not let Colas try to learn major league hitting. So fucking stupid.

If anyone finds a link or a video with Getz full comments from today, please do share. Only thing I’ve found are the few snippets from DVS Twitter.

Looks like he has 5 years of service after 2024, even if he spends the balance of the season on the Sox.

Where we seeing this reported? edit: nevermind see it now. Probably covering a portion of Pham's trade assignment bonus. Probably proves he had negative value.

Not excited, but passable since Pham probably had basically no value. But Fedde for Vargas feel a really good prospect light.

Can anyone tell me where Perez and Albertus ranked on BA's updated list?

I've yet to see anyone try to defend the trade. Its awful.

I am guessing Pham had no trade value. Which makes sense frankly. Basically a 0 WAR player, league average hitter and isn't a good defender. Been bad for several weeks now, and still due a couple million (believe he has a $1M trade bonus), so perhaps he was just a salary dump. So if you look at is at Fedde for Vargas, and one of the low level IFs and Kopech for the other low level IFs, I guess it make slightly more sense if you wink like 50x. But still doesn't explain the STL/Edman side of it. Feels like LAD got hosed here too.

I am so confused. I just can't understand how STL gets Fedde for Edman.

Not a fan at this point. I don't even know if I'd love this deal for just Fedde.

I doubt its that good for just Fedde..

Those deals are all so, so much worse than Beni's.

This. I am all for moving Beni in a bad $ for bad $ deal. Its obvious he isn't what this team needs, and they just need to let Colas and Fletcher play the OF the rest of the season.

I guess if that's the best offer you have, you can always try to move Rushing for a different prospect this winter (or even via a 3-way in the same deal). I still really dislike an LAD package tho. Unless its a massive overpay from them, I'd rather just hold Crochet and move him this winter when 29 clubs will be interested.

Yeah, I’m not as anti Walker as some seem to be. Dude was a consensus top 5 prospect in the game 350 days ago. It’s gonna be tough to find more upside for Fedde, plus he still has 5 years of control even if Sox brought him straight up post trade. Not saying I love it or it’s without risk, but the talent is there. Sounds like Cards rebuffed the request anyway.

There obviously could be more moving parts to the deal. I doubt it’s just Fedde to STL, Edman to LAD and 1 player to Sox.

Sorry, thought you were referring to SS Culpepper they just drafted not P Culpepper you must be referring to.

Culpepper cannot be traded yet