With seven minutes to go until the 2024 MLB trade deadline, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic is reporting that White Sox ace Garrett Crochet will not be traded.
Crochet, a 25-year-old southpaw, has broke out this year with a move to the rotation. However, his 114 1/3 innings on the season easily exceeds his prior career MLB total. Recent reports suggested Crochet and his agent have expressed an unwillingness to pitch in October without a contract extension. The lefty is earning only $800K this year and is under team control through 2026, but his reluctance to pitch into October and ability to do so muddied the waters for White Sox GM Chris Getz.
Interest in Crochet was significant this month, as he leads MLB starters with 4.1 fWAR even with the White Sox backing off his pitch count significantly in his last three starts. Perhaps the White Sox will shut Crochet down prior to the end of the season, and entertain offers again in the offseason.
Lol
So clever, so insightful. Thanks.
He’s right though
He pretty much made sure of that….
Yeah now he has a shell of a team around him and it will not help his cause going forward.
Well it probably will help his cause because forget October, this guy should be shut down earlier than that.
Yeah, that’s fair.
His ERA is going to balloon and he will have a worse W/L record.
While I’m not like jumping up and down cheering him on here i do understand his motivations and gotta respect the cojones it took to play the situation this way.
Crochet and EAA Sports screwed Crochet out of money and the great opportunity to go to a contending team and much better contract opportunity in the future. Now, he is stuck on the bad White Sox team, will likely have middling stats and get an arbitration raise. Foolishness, immaturity, bad attitude, whatever you want to call it. Getz was right. Other GM’s simply moved on from him.
Nope. 100% nope. Crochet is too talented for any of that to make sense and I tend to think that the average gm is not nearly that petty shortsighted, juvenile or stupid. Exhibit A on why the average comment section schmoe could not in fact do a better job than even the worst gm. Any sensible business minded adult can recognize this situation for what it is
Once he made the comment he did, figured he wasn’t getting dealt
LAD gets Flaherty
Cue devastating injury in the 1st inning of his next start.
Epic fail
Wtg, Garrett! May you lose game 121.
Flaherty to Dodgers though
I never thought they had to deal him or even should have dealt him. He’s a very difficult player to value with such a small track record yet such little team control and a great performance this year.
Same. Loling at the vindictive, outraged comments from people condemning crochet to damnation and acting like nobody’s gonna want him in the offseason for not being a good little bootlicker here. Manchild sports schmoe tantrums are the best lol
Everyone knows you are a d0uche if you don’t want to put your body and livelihood on the line (and for a team you just joined. All those great teammates you just met. All the fans who just figured out who you were.) What an @ss he must be. I hope he gets hurt.
If you’re being sarcastic then bravo lol
I’m always being sarcastic.
Tommy John Surgery incoming.
Already had TJ a couple years ago
Does that guarantee he won’t get it again?
No.
And?
Getz is having an awful, woeful trade deadline.
Hard to believe it could happen, but the Pale Hosers have dug an even deeper hole in the ground.
I don’t know about that. It’s difficult to get a good return on the crappy players the Sox have. At least he unloaded Eloy! Wave good-bye to Moncada as he won’t be back this year and it would take a desperate team to want to take a chance on him. Look how Timmy crashed!
“More to come…”
How much more is needed?
He did that to himself, overplayed his hand. On the flip side, if they keep him (he is cheap for 2 more seasons..) the WS may have a killer starting 5 next year.
They’ll have an awesome starting 5 next year — if Crochet starts every game. There’s no one left.
While you may not endorse his goals and concerns here, it looks to me like he played his hand in a way that addressed his most immediate concerns about his career path and earning power. He’s extremely underpaid for his present value rn and with only two more years of arb starting from barely more than league minimum he is not likely to be paid commensurate with his value until free agency. I find it very understandable that a guy in that position would be wary of putting his long term arm health and earning power at risk for a run with a brand new org who isn’t invested in crochet in a way that matches his value. In that situation a lot of risk is offloaded to crochet in exchange for nebulous vibes. I can’t blame him for feeling more comfortable with starting fresh in a new uni next season.
I have no issues with Crochet’s position but he can say the same thing to any team he’s traded to in the offseason so it does hurt his trade value to the Sox. These are things spoken about behind closed doors bc nobody wins when it goes public.
Crochet won by the standards of his immediate goals and concerns. It’s not his job to prioritize the Sox and their max trade value over his own interests here. And I have felt for a while now that folks are assuming too readily that the Sox were necessarily going to get max value at the deadline in light of workload and injury risk concerns. Crochet’s situation is unique enough that it can’t be compared apples to apples with an established fully built up starter at this stage of arb.
I find it very likely the Sox will have plenty of suitors for crochet this offseason and can get a good haul for him. There may even be a more robust market for him since teams can take the reins with his workload and role planning at the start of the year instead of working around the conditions inherited from the Sox. Also, I see a clear path for crochet and his reps to pivot on messaging and make it clear to teams that this position was a short term product of the timing and situation of the moment. I’d bet anyone that plenty of gms will be able to understand and accept that especially if he’s willing to give a bit of a discount for the immediate security of an extension.
Not a problem. What can they get for JR and Grifol?
A pouch of shiny nickles and a bag of balls for the right to fire them into the sun.
For Grifol and Reinsdorf? I found some lint in my pocket. That’ll be an overpay on my part, but I’ll take the risk.
Also looks like Jack Flaherty is staying put. Weird.
Oops. LA steps in and nabs Flaherty.
Its good move for Sox, as they can make him available to all the teams this off season… Only reason to go see them anyhow
See? He won’t pitch in the playoffs after all.
You win the internet today.
Are you saying the White Sox will not make the playoffs? 😮 🙂
So now the Sox can injure him pitching the rest of the season and get nothing for him in the off season. Way to go Getz!
If Getz has a brain in his head (notice I said IF) he will be looking to prioritize preserving crochet’s value as a trade chip in the offseason starting now.
What makes you think they won’t shut him down early? They need him to be healthy to trade him in December.
Rays should have piled up some prospects for him and used him as an opener for the rest of this season. Wouldn’t have to worry about the playoffs this year either, plus they would have an affordable ace for three seasons…
Why is this on Getz?
Crochett got what he wanted. He gets to stay with the White Sox. Hope he has fun pitching every five days the next two months for nothing.
Why stop at 2 months? Chicago may as well keep him thru 2026 – a very affordable ace with 3 years of production has to be more valuable than a “prospect haul”, given the low success rate of prospects in MLB. After 2026 the WSox can give him a QO, which he’ll turn down, and they’ll take the draft pick. All the while, his preference to not pitch in October will be honored during the prolonged rebuild. Win-win.
Let him rot there.
Lol any gm with a roster/competitive window fit who wouldn’t go after crochet in the offseason because of this kind of petty judgment would deserve to be fired on the spot lol. It was a business move on crochet’s part. Teams make them everyday without considering the player’s interests and I don’t see yall getting this salty about it. I’m talking myself into stanning for crochet standing up for himself and leveraging for his own interests more by the minute here. As a union worker who has played hardball with management many times I give him props.
LOL ok.
Let him rot there on some moral high ground.
Idk why some of yall are seeming to take crochet’s moves this personal. It’s just business. Deals fail to come together at every deadline for any number of reasons. Nothing immoral about a guy playing the cards he’s got to look out for him and his. He didn’t break any actual rules that I can think of. Crazy to me how some people act like it’s immoral for a person to advocate for themselves instead of just deferring to whatever other people want from them.
How about we let everyone advocate for themselves like this? Teachers when they’re getting a violent and belligerent student. Police officers when they have to serve an aggressive and violent individual. Firefighters. Doctors. EMTs.
He’s a ballplayer. It’s a game. I hope he rots in Chicago.
I think everyone has a right to advocate for themselves. So I’m not sure what you think this comparison demonstrates here. Sidebar: lmao at the notion that cops are somehow disempowered when they have the ability to literally use lethal force on the job, often when it wasn’t at all necessary. Cry me a river for the poor lil cops.
But yeah, he’s a ballplayer. Its a game. If it’s such a trivial thing why do you seem this emotional that you want him to be punished for this? Why are you bothering to concern yourself with all this ill will?
Dude, he is gonna make millions of dollars. And I wish him boundless success and happiness. And I hope he rots on possibly the worst team in MLB history.
What a bum! He hurt his team for his own selfish reasons. And blew up any trust the Sox had in him.
And all you Getz haters out there have to realize that there would be no trade unless the team trying to trade for him would give him a contract extension he liked. My guess is that some team, maybe LAD, was trying to do just that, but Crochett wouldn’t agree to a deal. So LAD moved on. As did every other team.
Oh no! How dare he be inconvenient to the team that was literally showing him that they had no intention of investing in a continued workong relationship with him! And over such petty things as his health and longer term career prospects! Seriously, wtf have the Sox ever done to earn his loyalty?
He could have approached it like a man instead of like a petulant toddler.
he is a fool. now he is stuck on a bad team for the next few years…
Maybe not. There’s always the winter trades.
This definitely does not tank crochet’s value or trade market in the offseason. Assuming good health there will be plenty of interest. How many teams have given so many players who have done way more to earn the label of “headcase” or “malcontent” or whatever chances over the years? There’s no way that 29 other gms are all going to lose interest in a young frontline starter with two years of arb control over this.
Still two years of arbitration, Getz will get plenty of suitors.
Oh, you big tease!
This may work out better for the White Sox in regards to both Robert and Crochet. The 2024 draft picks won’t be eligible for trades until after the World Series, which of course, takes place before the Winter Meetings. This would give them a significantly larger talent pool from which to choose from when considering potential trade partners.
Thank you EAA Sports, agency and Crochet for diminishing your trade value to the point that no team was interested in acquiring a headcase like you. Headed to arbitration the next two years on a bad, bad team where you stats will be so bad that you will not make near the money you could have made on literally any other team. Doubt you get an extension offer now. Getz was right about you.
Lol this is the most insane hot take here. Crochet made a business and career move to protect his own interests. You’re carrying on like he kicked your puppy or something. Chill bruh. This is not how this situation is going to play.
If I was the white sox I’m shutting him down today and send him to vacation. That stunt about refusing to pitch means his trade value for this deadline is gone and his value can’t get any higher so why risk an injury now?
Shut him down and then trade him in the off season for a good return.
Awwww, Getz is ‘hurt’ by Crochet’s comments… Time to find another line of work Getz if you are that sensitive.
Crochet is likely ‘hurt’ first by what was likely a very insincere offer by the Sox to extend.
I think a new owner fixes this by seeing the talent there and making a good offer, and not just an offer from ‘the (bottom dollar) Chairman’
Time to sell Jerry, save what little shred of respect you may have from your peers.
100. Given all the dysfunction in this org over the years and their awful reputation for player development I would not be surprised if i heard that crochet has a list of legit beefs with the Sox as long as my freakin’ arm. From what I recall of their handling of crochet since they drafted him, its not really anything to praise. I wouldn’t blame him one bit if he had been fed up with them already and decided he wasn’t going to tolerate any more impact to his career path from this org. They’ve made it abundantly clear that there is no financial or competitive future for him in Chicago over the next 2 seasons.
Good. The Sox did not get nearly enough for Cease… didn’t need to see Getz to it again.
He’s only making 700K, had a previous Tommy John surgery, and is a first time starter, and is on a limit. Surely it makes sense to want to get a contract if he is going to put himself in a position to pitch in the post season. Most teams give a guy a contract after acquiring him. His circumstances are different, but wanting a sign and trade. Not completely unreasonable. Given the factors. But now they can reexamine things, maybe they keep him, doubt it, but he’s really good so if they hold onto him, could be a smarter thing to do. Hard telling with how bad things seem right now with the team. And what’s going on with the rebuild, and what the state of affairs are.
They 100% should accept that it is what it is, put their big boy pants on and adjust their plans toward dealing him this offseason.
I am certain Orioles, Yankees, Dodgers, Braves, Padres, Phillies made offers to Getz. Would love to know what they were.
Id throw him out there once a week with a 60 pitch limit. Shut him down middle of September. Deal him in the off-season. And not take anything other than a haul. After the Fedde trade maybe a new GM needs to handle this. They need a real
Manager too
So a team that just tied its franchise record for consecutive losses at 15 (a record set earlier this season) and then lost its 16th tonight breezed through the trade deadline still holding its two most valuable chips in Crochet & Robert (did at least trade Eloy for prospects). They’ve won 27 games, there isn’t a cavalcade of talent surging up from CLT or BIR. They have an owner playing chicken with the city for a new stadium deal. What good are those two going to do them at this point? Sell high. I get that Crochet’s self-protective power move complicated things so maybe an offseason deal is more likely. It’s about the Soxiest of Sox clusterSox I’ve ever seen. No clue how they dig out of this.