3 minutes ago, Snopek said:

GMs cannot approach their job with the assumption that there will be no season next year.

I agree with that. And as someone who wanted to at least see what Castillo could do, I think the trade is a failure. Doyle was a failure as well.

With that stated, Southsider has a point. I don’t think Getz was being overly aggressive. I think he made a lot of calls and thought he was shopping at Aldi, but found himself in the aisles of Shop N Save

5 minutes ago, nitetrain8601 said:

I agree with that. And as someone who wanted to at least see what Castillo could do, I think the trade is a failure. Doyle was a failure as well.

With that stated, Southsider has a point. I don’t think Getz was being overly aggressive. I think he made a lot of calls and thought he was shopping at Aldi, but found himself in the aisles of Shop N Save

Dude was at the yard sale in the alley, and bought himself a fake antique along with his bargains.

Speaking of keeping Castillo around who now isn't even pitching:

From the MLB.com site:

The Phillies have claimed right-handed pitcher José Urquidy off waivers from the Chicago White Sox. To make room on the 40-man roster, right-handed pitcher Caleb Kilian was transferred to the 60-day injured list. Phillies President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski made the announcement.

Urquidy, 31, has appeared in 11 games this season between the Pittsburgh Pirates and White Sox. He made one start on Aug. 24 against the Texas Rangers, however his last three appearances have all come in relief. On Aug. 30 against the Twins in Minnesota, he allowed one run over 5.0 innings. On Sept. 3 in Houston against the Astros, he tossed 1.0 scoreless inning. And, on Sept. 8 against the Pirates, he allowed two runs over 4.0 innings. Combined, he has a 2.70 ERA over his last three appearances (3 ER, 10.0 IP).

Braves, Cubs, and Guardians seem to have won the trade deadline moves. An obvious swing and miss for the Sox.

26 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Speaking of keeping Castillo around who now isn't even pitching:

From the MLB.com site:

The Phillies have claimed right-handed pitcher José Urquidy off waivers from the Chicago White Sox. To make room on the 40-man roster, right-handed pitcher Caleb Kilian was transferred to the 60-day injured list. Phillies President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski made the announcement.

Urquidy, 31, has appeared in 11 games this season between the Pittsburgh Pirates and White Sox. He made one start on Aug. 24 against the Texas Rangers, however his last three appearances have all come in relief. On Aug. 30 against the Twins in Minnesota, he allowed one run over 5.0 innings. On Sept. 3 in Houston against the Astros, he tossed 1.0 scoreless inning. And, on Sept. 8 against the Pirates, he allowed two runs over 4.0 innings. Combined, he has a 2.70 ERA over his last three appearances (3 ER, 10.0 IP).

Urgiggity gone…

Do you fire him if the team didn't make any trades at the deadline?

24 minutes ago, Texsox said:

Braves, Cubs, and Guardians seem to have won the trade deadline moves. An obvious swing and miss for the Sox.

A bonus of having better farm systems.

1 hour ago, Texsox said:

Braves, Cubs, and Guardians seem to have won the trade deadline moves. An obvious swing and miss for the Sox.

The Rays did well too.

21 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

A bonus of having better farm systems.

The Padres had the 30th rated farm system and still managed to improve their team...ofc part of that was Tatis and Machado playing much better.

Now one GB the vaunted Cubs.

Could have easily sold off Miller King Morejon and even Salas.

White Sox were roughly around #13-16 system.

33 minutes ago, Texsox said:

Do you fire him if the team didn't make any trades at the deadline?

Nope.

The AL Central has been hiding or let's just say masking the true weaknesses of those five teams for most of the season.

But now the pen is hiring after getting overused all season long.

Three players look beyond help until the offseason.

And it still ALMOST worked if Grant Taylor executed a better pitch vs. Rocchio.

One thing is 100% true, Castillo and Brazoban actively hurt the team's chances of holding things together and dragging over the finish line into postseason play.

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by caulfield12

Crazy that Jake McCarthy (yes Colorado helps!) is 25th in mlb ops.

Vargas 23rd .826

MurakamiTatis Jr. 30th .816

Antonacci 64th

Meidroth 73rd

Peters not qualified, nor Grichuk ofc