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Guys in the Rays dugout hugging it out. It would seem its for a player off their 26 man.

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Locklear has been red hot in AAA, but honestly this one feels like AZ doing Seattle a solid.

Nah, I'm good.

So we keep this collection of huge maybes together chasing 63 wins, what have we actually accomplished? 63-99 is still really bad. Yeah, it's a enomorous jump from 41-121, but its still 36 games under water.There's nothing to indicate that this current group can make another 20 win improvement in a year's time. And even if by random chance they were, we are still looking at a .500ish team with no hope of winning anything meaningful even if they snuck into the last Wild Card spot. Don't sacrifice future growth by focusing on the record of a rebuilding team.

And why the f*** would we want that?

As far as we know. Doesn’t make him a good or smart GM though. 😊

AL Wild Card race is basically NYY, Boston, and the AL West. I can see why LAA would go for it and try to sneak in. Better than waiting til next year while Trout gets another year older.

At least go with a Chicago-centric food theme. Chili’s? GTFO!

An absurd hot streak no doubt, and probably a combo of the above, but it will be interesting to see where he's at once the tear he is on levels out.

The consensus about this trade generally seems to be positive yet you feel the need to throw barbs over longstanding past grudges. Like, we get it dude, you just want attention, but this s%*# just isn't necessary.

This is true. For some players, how the message is presented matters just as much as the message itself.

At least I don't have to figure out who Austin Slater is now.

We heard rumors that he was lazy and didn't work on his game, and was resistant to analytics and change. Maybe getting sent down then traded was the wake up call he needed? Not saying he's gonna be Aaron Judge-eque for the rest of his playing days, but even great coaching/instruction will fail if the student isn't open to learning.

He was just promoted to Birmingham, there’s no way he’s ready for OD 2026. Even if he completely destroys AA the rest of the year I’d give him a few months in Charlotte to open next season.

Is it Thursday yet?

IDK, they are made of hog anuses? Or cow anus in the case of Vienna Beef? Damn, I could really go for some Jim's Original right now...

Getz isn't winning any trades with what he has to trade. He already fucked up the trades of his best assests sans one.

Smart orgs tend to have kids work on positional flexibility in the minors, not throw a guy into a new position they've never played before in the majors. Yes, Montgomery played like 5 games at 3B in Charlotte, but that's not a large enough sample to consider him experienced.

It's almost as if those in charge don't have fucking clue what they are doing.

In a vacuum, Vientos isn't a bad return. It isn't an overly inspring return, but Robert has fallen so far that we have to temper our exceptions on what we get back. The issue is Vientos' fit on the Sox, and Getz targeting a guy already in the bigs who may not be around by the time they are legitimately on the upswing. If Vargas weren't around, Vientos would make more sense, but both is too redundant IMO.

Niether of them are SS. Acuna is a 2B whose bat lends itself more to a Utility role. Mauricio is pretty solid at 3B so far, but he's the youngest and best of the names listed, and there's no way in hell the Mets are trading him straight up for Robert. The reason why Vientos and Baty keep coming up is because NYM has a logjam with those guys and need to part with someone to give the others ample playing time.

I agree that the time to trade Robert was in 2023 vs now, but there’s a huge difference between what teams were willing to offer in 2016/17 vs now or even a few years ago. If the hauls Hahn got back are the measuring stick, we will be disappointed in the return no matter what.

Vientos > Vargas at 3B. Not that either should be viewed as the longterm solution.