1 minute ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I'll be curious how history eventually judges the "worst" trade:

Shields for Tatis

or

Castillo for Boston

I'm not. Smith prays every night to have a fraction of the career Tatis has had. It might be the worst trade in franchise history.

1 minute ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I'll be curious how history eventually judges the "worst" trade:

Shields for Tatis

or

Castillo for Boston

Boston Smith will have to be a damn good bat to make it worse than the Tatis trade. Don't see that happening. In Hahn's defense, Shields was at least worth 0.7 WAR when they got him. Castillo was worth -0.6 WAR, lol. Don't get me wrong, Shields still sucked when they got him. But Castillo was just plain awful before they acquired him.

Edited September 4Sep 4 by ron883

12 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

I'm not. Smith prays every night to have a fraction of the career Tatis has had. It might be the worst trade in franchise history.

Trading Semien and Bassitt for Shark Bait wasn't great either.

Todd Ritchie trade

Gossage/Forster

Sosa/Bell

Gio/Sweeney for Swisher

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Edited September 4Sep 4 by caulfield12

18 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Trading Semien and Bassitt for Shark Bait wasn't great either.

Todd Ritchie trade

Gossage/Forster

Sosa/Bell

Gio/Sweeney for Swisher

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1 hour ago, ron883 said:

This will literally make you cringe.

1 hour ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I'll be curious how history eventually judges the "worst" trade:

Shields for Tatis

or

Castillo for Boston

The Shields / Tatis Jr. trade will always be worse. Tatis Jr. was six years younger than Boston Smith when he was acquired by the Padres — age 17.

Smith could still be bad but he would literally have to be called up tomorrow and tear it up to even attempt to match the Tatis Jr. trade in badness, and it still wouldn’t be as bad.

Tatis Jr. already had a 3 fWAR season in his rookie season at age 20.

Edited September 4Sep 4 by WhiteSox2023

1 hour ago, ron883 said:

Seranthony did that s%*# with us all the time. He'd blow up, have like 5 or 6 good outings, make you think he's back on track, and then blow up out of nowhere again.

maybe this organization has a false sense of fixing pitchers

3 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

maybe this organization has a false sense of fixing pitchers

How many organizations had five guys within a decade getting legit Top 3-5 Cy votes?

Sale Rodon Crochet Giolito Cease

9 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I'll be curious how history eventually judges the "worst" trade:

Shields for Tatis

or

Castillo for Boston

lol…a bit premature to view Smith as 1/100th of the player of Tatis

Baffling trade at the time that's somehow even worse than I thought. Still like the Doyle deal.

8 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

How many organizations had five guys within a decade getting legit Top 3-5 Cy votes?

Sale Rodon Crochet Giolito Cease

and not one of them is in a Sox uniform

20 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

and not one of them is in a Sox uniform

Man let's start to get some value out of that Cease deal. Call up Thorpe!

The biggest problem with this trade is that Getz is going to make sure they keep pitching him. There's no chance they let Venable move him to the bullpen because of what they gave up. This guy is going to continue to lose games for the Sox in the middle of a pennant race. It's actually really hard to make your team worse at the trade deadline when you're BUYING, but Getz did it.

25 minutes ago, Paulie4Pres said:

The biggest problem with this trade is that Getz is going to make sure they keep pitching him. There's no chance they let Venable move him to the bullpen because of what they gave up. This guy is going to continue to lose games for the Sox in the middle of a pennant race. It's actually really hard to make your team worse at the trade deadline when you're BUYING, but Getz did it.

And if we make it to the playoffs, you bet your ass he's gonna start one of those games too. Because he's got playoff experience.

5 hours ago, chw42 said:

And if we make it to the playoffs, you bet your ass he's gonna start one of those games too. Because he's got playoff experience.

Has to be Fedde now…or Martin.

Think Kay would fit in pretty seamlessly as a long reliever.

6 hours ago, chw42 said:

And if we make it to the playoffs, you bet your ass he's gonna start one of those games too. Because he's got playoff experience.

There's no way he starts a playoff game with how he's looked. Absolutely no chance.

On 9/3/2026 at 3:54 PM, WhiteSox2023 said:

Like I said, the Sox would be a better team right now if Getz simply made no trades at the deadline instead of the horrific ones he did make. Mason Adams would be in the rotation right now and we would have Hays or Pereira instead of Doyle. Boston Smith in the minors too.

As much as it pains me to say, you’re right. Hopefully they can turn them around and surprise us all again this year / or next year…

They’ve got a chance to prove their worth or take a lesson in humility to cut down some of their pride.

I’ve been hopefully optimistic about Getz’s trades WHILE GRILLING HIM for not getting a second starter… but there isn’t any more room for optimism when it comes to looking at deadline preformance.

Big fat turd.

Poop, even, I dare say.

1 hour ago, hi8is said:

As much as it pains me to say, you’re right. Hopefully they can turn them around and surprise us all again this year / or next year…

They’ve got a chance to prove their worth or take a lesson in humility to cut down some of their pride.

I’ve been hopefully optimistic about Getz’s trades WHILE GRILLING HIM for not getting a second starter… but there isn’t any more room for optimism when it comes to looking at deadline preformance.

Big fat turd.

Poop, even, I dare say.

Well, you and @Chicago White Sox were right that Getz needed to acquire a second starter but he was too worried about only acquiring players with additional year(s) of control instead of rentals.

Edited September 5Sep 5 by WhiteSox2023

Mariners fans have little to laugh about this year, but dumping Castillo AND acquiring Smith and Dominguez has been a decent consolation prize.

29 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Mariners fans have little to laugh about this year, but dumping Castillo AND acquiring Smith and Dominguez has been a decent consolation prize.

It was highway robbery.

14 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

It was highway robbery.

We thought that with the Kopech trade.

If could be Getz is hoping next season will be better for Castillo

31 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

We thought that with the Kopech trade.

If could be Getz is hoping next season will be better for Castillo

The Sox are in the playoff hunt right now. There is no guarantee that the Sox will be in this same position next season. That’s why the trade already looks terrible. Also, Castillo is only here for one more expensive year. There’s no way to shine this turd of a trade.

Edited September 5Sep 5 by WhiteSox2023

18 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Well, you and @Chicago White Sox were right that Getz needed to acquire a second starter but he was too worried about only acquiring players with additional year(s) of control instead of rentals.

Hopefully the player development staff pulls a rabbit out of their asses and shocks us but I have seen enough to write his deadline guys off this year.

And I’ve never wanted to be more wrong in my life. 😆