April 24, 2025Apr 24 19 minutes ago, 46DidIt said: How does a 91 win team like the O's have 33% larger pool than the Sox. Small market team + comp picks.
April 24, 2025Apr 24 That 10th pick is a kick in the nethers. Not that I trust them to make the right pick at the top of in the draft...
April 24, 2025Apr 24 34 minutes ago, Tnetennba said: That 10th pick is a kick in the nethers. Not that I trust them to make the right pick at the top of in the draft... 10th pick is why there was absolutely zero fucking reason to divebomb last season. They literally couldn't tank. It was just pure suckage from Getz and JR.
April 24, 2025Apr 24 17 minutes ago, Quin said: 10th pick is why there was absolutely zero fucking reason to divebomb last season. They literally couldn't tank. It was just pure suckage from Getz and JR. Imagine if they actually tried to be bad 😵
April 24, 2025Apr 24 1 hour ago, almagest said: Sox should get a bonus "pity pool" of at least $5 mil. Jerry would look for a way to trade it to another team.
April 24, 2025Apr 24 Author 12 minutes ago, Tnetennba said: Imagine if they actually tried to be bad 😵 Could they do worse if they tried? I am not sure.
April 24, 2025Apr 24 14 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said: Could they do worse if they tried? I am not sure. True. It is hard to top historically bad due to sheer incompetence.
April 24, 2025Apr 24 85-win Mariners draft 3rd. $11.1 Mill for #1 pick depreciates all the way down to $3.4 mill for the Guardians at #27. There's your incentive to tank right there: a 70% diminution in less than 1 round MLB draft is replete with counterproductive contrivances.
April 24, 2025Apr 24 5 hours ago, southsider2k5 said: Trade for a comp pick to build up the pool plz & thank you.
April 25, 2025Apr 25 5 hours ago, joejoesox said: Red Sox get a bigger pool than the White Sox? wtf? They got the Brewers comp A pick in the Quinn Priester trade so that put them ahead of the Sox.
April 25, 2025Apr 25 1 hour ago, Sleepy Harold said: They got the Brewers comp A pick in the Quinn Priester trade so that put them ahead of the Sox. The fact that there's a special round of picks and they are the only picks that can get traded and their pool counts towards the larger pool is so fucking stupid.
April 25, 2025Apr 25 10 hours ago, Quin said: The fact that there's a special round of picks and they are the only picks that can get traded and their pool counts towards the larger pool is so fucking stupid. The entire MLB draft process needs to be burned to the ground and redone. They’ve somehow made it more difficult for bad teams to get better under the guise of “you need to spend more $” while there’s 0 teeth behind it to enforce anything. Scum bag owners like Jerry simply say “No Thanks” and nothing happens other than the fans continue to suffer
April 25, 2025Apr 25 The draft rules are backfiring when it comes to the Sox. Their incentive now is to tank twice as long because there’s no hope they are going to build quickly. Most of their viable offensive talent is in A ball, and this year’s draft is HS heavy. They won’t have any incentive to spend until like 2028.
April 25, 2025Apr 25 Author None of this would be a problem if Jerry would operate this as if it wasn't 1955, but 2025.
April 25, 2025Apr 25 18 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said: None of this would be a problem if Jerry would operate this as if it wasn't 1955, but 2025. I would never defend Jerry, but during the .500 season under TLR, it became apparent the whole thing had to be blown up and scraped from the Earth. Top to bottom. That is with a crappy farm system. No amount of money would have fixed it. You can argue that hiring Getz was stupid, but from 2022 on, this franchise was doomed to something like a 8 year rebuild. The Sox arguably haven’t even started rebuilding yet. They are still in tear down mode as long as Vaughn and Robert are on the roster. So far, 3 guys have stepped forward to look cromulent — Smith, Quero, and Meidroth. They don’t have a core to add to, so even getting Soto and Burnes this offseason wouldn’t have made them competitive. Sadly, it’s gonna be a long and frustrating road.
April 25, 2025Apr 25 Author 1 hour ago, Timmy U said: I would never defend Jerry, but during the .500 season under TLR, it became apparent the whole thing had to be blown up and scraped from the Earth. Top to bottom. That is with a crappy farm system. No amount of money would have fixed it. You can argue that hiring Getz was stupid, but from 2022 on, this franchise was doomed to something like a 8 year rebuild. The Sox arguably haven’t even started rebuilding yet. They are still in tear down mode as long as Vaughn and Robert are on the roster. So far, 3 guys have stepped forward to look cromulent — Smith, Quero, and Meidroth. They don’t have a core to add to, so even getting Soto and Burnes this offseason wouldn’t have made them competitive. Sadly, it’s gonna be a long and frustrating road. Again, if we operated like a big market team, none of this would matter.
April 25, 2025Apr 25 1 hour ago, Timmy U said: I would never defend Jerry, but during the .500 season under TLR, it became apparent the whole thing had to be blown up and scraped from the Earth. Top to bottom. That is with a crappy farm system. No amount of money would have fixed it. You can argue that hiring Getz was stupid, but from 2022 on, this franchise was doomed to something like a 8 year rebuild. The Sox arguably haven’t even started rebuilding yet. They are still in tear down mode as long as Vaughn and Robert are on the roster. So far, 3 guys have stepped forward to look cromulent — Smith, Quero, and Meidroth. They don’t have a core to add to, so even getting Soto and Burnes this offseason wouldn’t have made them competitive. Sadly, it’s gonna be a long and frustrating road. Also have to dump Benintendi as well...someday. When his remaining money owned is less onerous.
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