After missing a few games this is what I've come back to see:

• Colson is still smashing the ball but is now sitting with soreness.
• Luis out for year with a strain.
• Steve Stone likes Korey Lee's pitching form. Korey Lee hitting mid-80s and even 90 mph on a pitch? Korey Lee for 2-way player.

43 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

I'm thinking that will be more disappointment and expose how overrated the farm system is in pitching.

I often wonder if Ishbia would ever keep Katz and maybe some other coaches in the farm system. 

I am not a fan of Katz, so I wouldn’t be upset if he was let go.

2 hours ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

So back to back trade deadlines KC finds Ragans and Bergert. Both guys have elite level skills and look like they are real studs. Ragans hurt obviously now. 

That's how you identify a strength, scout to it and develop it.

And I loved both guys prior to their breakout so Getz blows again.

It's almost like he doesn't have the ability to spot talent.

43 minutes ago, Quin said:

After missing a few games this is what I've come back to see:

• Colson is still smashing the ball but is now sitting with soreness.
• Luis out for year with a strain.
• Steve Stone likes Korey Lee's pitching form. Korey Lee hitting mid-80s and even 90 mph on a pitch? Korey Lee for 2-way player.

I missed it....did Korey have a hammer like Matt Davidson to go along with that fastball?

Edited August 28, 2025Aug 28 by wegner

If it’s any consolation, the cubs are also getting rocked. 

19 minutes ago, wegner said:

It's almost like he doesn't have the ability to spot talent.

Based on his history that appears to be a true statement. But I'm guessing that also can apply to the Sox scouts and talent evaluators. 

Tonight was just...bad...really bad. 

 

12 minutes ago, nrockway said:

If it’s any consolation, the cubs are also getting rocked. 

In a way it is I guess, but they are still making the playoffs. 

24 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

In a way it is I guess, but they are still making the playoffs. 

Yeah, seems certain at this point.

2 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

I'm thinking that will be more disappointment and expose how overrated the farm system is in pitching.

I often wonder if Ishbia would ever keep Katz and maybe some other coaches in the farm system. 

Y.Gomez was the last "hot hand" in AAA remaining...

With diminished Sept rosters, won't see hardly many of the AAA relievers at all.

These days, more likely to go to the Arizona Fall League with Braden Montgomery.

Edited August 28, 2025Aug 28 by caulfield12

40 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Y.Gomez was the last "hot hand" in AAA remaining...

With diminished Sept rosters, won't see hardly many of the AAA relievers at all.

These days, more likely to go to the Arizona Fall League with Braden Montgomery.

I hope he goes.  

1 hour ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Based on his history that appears to be a true statement. But I'm guessing that also can apply to the Sox scouts and talent evaluators. 

Tonight was just...bad...really bad. 

 

Long before Getz.  I wonder how many of them along with coaches are JR's untouchables.

"We are seeing that trend where it’s really good up front and then kind of can fall apart a little bit like it did today," Will Venable said of Civale. "We’ll keep digging and he’ll continue to look to find ways to get better."

In Civale's defense, he was also a pitch away from from a regular ol' three-spot when Will Venable summoned Tyler Gilbert for a left-on-left matchup with Vinnie Pasquantino. But the Royals first baseman's hard groundball smash eluded Lenyn Sosa's range-limited grasp to plate two inherited runners, and started a season-altering disaster of an outing for Gilbert.

After Yastrzemski--another lefty--lifted a three-run homer out to dead center in the sixth that Michael A. Taylor clearly thought was going to carom off the wall, Gilbert left with six runs on his tab, having retired one of the eight batters he faced. His ERA went from 3.32 on the season to 4.61 in about a half hour's time, and he looked like he was grappling with such a realization as he bounded down the tunnel to the clubhouse after departing.”
 

At least Fegan still has his sense of humor intact over at SoxMachine.com

Korey Lee is probably the 3rd or 4th best bullpen arm the Sox have right now. Kidding not kidding. 

10 hours ago, Timmy U said:

Trading actual prospects for Gilbert and Booser was moronic in retrospect.

It was moronic in spect, let alone retrospect.

Especially the Booser trade.  Really moronic. Sox gave up Aaron Combs for Gilbert.

2 hours ago, oldsox said:

Especially the Booser trade.  Really moronic. Sox gave up Aaron Combs for Gilbert.

I totally forgot those guys came over in trades....I thought they were probably waiver claims, etc. Ugghhh.

12 minutes ago, wegner said:

I totally forgot those guys came over in trades....I thought they were probably waiver claims, etc. Ugghhh.

Fajardo for Booser.

Kind of evens out those HR signings of Tauchman and Slater.

Edited August 28, 2025Aug 28 by WhiteSox2023

1 hour ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Fajardo for Booser.

Kind of evens out those HR signings of Tauchman and Slater.

It's insane to me that a team coming off a 121 loss season is trading teenage pitching prospects for 30+ year old middle relievers. Wtf..

5 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

It was moronic in spect, let alone retrospect.

but it satisfies our trade frenzy

we ignore the history of failure. That failure is always not able to recognize and develop.   Bad teams do this all of the time.  It's that habitual losing syndrome fans accept.  We look at the "science" but not the results.

I think a A'[s fan suffers the most.  Look at decades of players they never keep.  

50 minutes ago, T R U said:

It's insane to me that a team coming off a 121 loss season is trading teenage pitching prospects for 30+ year old middle relievers. Wtf..

If Getz was thinking that relievers would be at a premium at the trade deadline, he was not wrong. However, you have to pick up relievers that will have some value.  

I am still waiting for someone to trade for Steven Wilson, who was a valuable piece included in the deal for Cease or so we were told.