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How much good is Andrew Benintendi doing for this roster right now? Because that is the type of free agent this organization signs. A roster full of C and D level FA is already the worst team in franchise history, and is on pace to be one of the worst teams in Major League baseball history.

I, for one, have faith they can make up those 4.5 games!

This will only serve to feed my vacillating opinion on the trade return.

Let's hope he's right. Attaching Benintendi's dead weight to any deal is such a waste.

The only context I can think of is if a player has a no trade clause and leverages an extension with the new team as a condition of agreeing to the trade. Crochet has no real leverage here though. I get him wanting to have a say in how he is used for the rest of the season and in the future, but he is under contract either way.

Man, do i really want to know Getz' definition of tireless work is?

It is certainly a potential monkey wrench. And what happens when the team who acquires him calls his bluff? He's still under contract for 2 more seasons so its not like a team risks losing him this winter.

Seriously, adding FA pieces now would be horribly premature. We all want to watch star players on our team, but there is no foundation yet. What does adding a Juan Soto do for a likely 120 loss team when there is absolutely nothing surrounding him nor anything in the upper minors?

I think it's a forgone conclusion that he's moved, it's just a matter of when. And we probably won't like the return.

NO. I love Bichette, but he's 26 and will be FA after next season. He absolutely does not fit the Sox timeline, and there's no way JR pays him either.

Aside from JR not wanting to pay people not to work for him, Pedro is the perfect punching bag/human shield.

If death is an option...

40 wins is closer than 100 losses. On paper. Yet 40 wins feels like a massive feat for this team.

Nah, we can judge now, as we could when he looked like a deer in headlights at his intro presser. Never fear though, he'll get many an offseason/draft/deadline to f*** up over and over.

Dodgers prioritizing Crochet scares me. I have no faith in Getz to not f*** up that return.

You say this as if he hasn’t already. His off-season doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that he’ll get any of these trades right.

An acid bath might not be enough...

We woulda had the GM version of Pedro. We were fucked either way.

Julio isn't going anywhere, but it's absurd to put him in the same sentence with those names. He's payed almost as many games in 2+ seasons as Robert has in 4 & 1/2. Julio's career WAR is nearly identical in half the service time as well

Something tells me he won't be footing the bill for this either. If it even breaks ground that is.

Cross the Mariners off your list. Starting pithing is the least of their worries. If they trade from their prospect wealth, its for bats, and or high leverage relievers.

Guessing it was a prior commitment, but NBA Summer League isn't exactly high profile. Of course the Sox brass is fine with it.

The fact that they have spent in the past? Granted, we don't know if Christopher Illitch will spend like his father, but they have a better history with FA spending that the White Sox do. Trading Skubal now seems rather premature.

Tigers are in a far different spot than the White Sox, and have ownership that has and will spend. Skubal talk is just that IMO, talk. Crochet and Skubal are in totally different situations and I don’t see why Detroit even entertains the idea of a trade.

Everyone is hitting terribly. But Pham might be a bigger negative than a positive for that clubhouse.