What Boston thinks of the Garrett Crochet trade and how it happened with the Boston Globe's Alex Speier

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Garfien speaks with Red Sox beat writer Alex Speier of the Boston Globe to get Boston's opinion of the Garrett Crochet trade. Speier gives the inside scoop about how the trade went down behind the scenes, who the White Sox are getting in Kyle Teel, Braden Montgomery, Chase Meidroth and Wikelman Gonzalez, and what people in Boston think of the deal. Chuck reads tweets from Red Sox fans about the trade, Alex shares inside stories about the Chris Sale trade from 2016, they talk about the second White Sox-Red Sox trade of the winter which brought left-handed reliever Cam Booser to Chicago and more.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It's Chuck Garfine. Welcome back to the White Sox podcast. And I wish everybody, Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Happy New Year.
0:10.0	2024 is almost completed. And I think we're all excited to see this year end and move forward into 2025.
0:20.9	Okay. So one of the biggest trades so far in the offseason, maybe the biggest trade in all
0:25.7	of baseball, was the Garrett Crochet trade earlier this month between the White Sox and Red Sox.
0:31.0	Boston got an ace, no doubt, with two years of control.
0:35.1	White Sox got four prospects all in the top 15 of the Red Sox deep and talented farm system,
0:42.5	including two of the very best, Kyle Teal and Braden Montgomery.
0:46.8	So it is too early, way too early to decide who won the trade.
0:52.9	But in the aftermath of the deal. I want to know
0:57.6	what Boston thinks. So on the podcast, it is Alex Spear, the great writer for the Boston Globe,
1:06.3	covers the Red Sox for the Boston Globe. I'm going to get his thoughts about the trade and
1:10.7	what people are saying about it in Boston.
1:14.3	And he's got an inside story published on Monday about how the crochet trade went down behind the scenes.
1:23.2	We're going to talk about that.
1:24.8	And also a story that he wrote way back in 2016, an inside story about how the Chrysale trade went down behind the sinks.
1:34.0	So, what Boston thinks about the Garrett Crochet trade and how it happened, that Alex Spear of the Boston Globe let's do it.
1:49.0	The ball hit deep way back. There's a blast. Deep to left.
1:55.0	Holy cow! Carl Penn Penn has put the White Sox ahead.
2:02.5	Robert straightens this one out.
2:04.9	Back you go!
2:06.7	See ya!
2:08.2	You can put it on the board!
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