Balta1701

They didn't play for the royals?

Yes, I was adding onto yours. Not only no QO right now so no owed compensation now, but also still could be offered one at the end of this season.

Montgomery was traded last year, so he’s still eligible for a qualifying offer if a team signs him and doesn’t trade him during the year.

But perhaps it should be 0.37 less because Cease has previously been better and we should factor that in.

I don't think it should be "and" as much as "or", but they are clearly going to do something today.

And people like Rosenthal, who probably are actually hearing things, are also at risk of GMs using them to try to drive a market. A ton of that has happened this offseason, it's very clear that Chris Getz was using these guys to try to drive the market. That's why none of the reports have been correct, because people are leaking things to him and Nightingale so that they get clicks and hoping that can create a trade market that hasn't existed so far. So maybe let's add some more skepticism to how we read every one of these reports?

They dunked on me on January 9 in this thread for Rosenthal saying the White Sox were going to get a haul for Cease, again by name. Did that report, which at this point is now incorrect by more than 2 months, cost Rosenthal any credibility? Eventually they're going to be right, because eventually Cease is going to be traded. But who other than me is dunking on Rosenthal for his incorrect reports earlier in this offseason? Who else is tired of these false insider reports and calling them nonsense, when they are.

I literally had people tagging me in a conversation I wasn't in last night to brag about the importance of these new insider reports because they wanted to brag about how things were clearly going down. Y'all want to believe these guys and they pump out super vague clickbait to the point that they're occasionally right, when they say things that wind up completely wrong it doesn't cost them enough credibility that their next set of posts get ignored (see literally 8500 posts in this thread), and y'all bring me in and tag me to brag every time there's a rumor because OMG there's a new insider rumor this is awesome. So sure, feel free to be mad at me for having the audacity to call this out as malarky.

8500 replies in this thread and you're rolling your eyes at me rather than at Morosi saying a trade is "plausible." I'd say that you guys would believe a post by an Italian beef sandwich if they claimed to be an insider but...well...

Insiders can never fail, we can only fail them.

Wow, it's plausible? I mean, that's the kind of bold statement that really puts one's credibility on the line.

Yes last year was elbow, it was one of those “is he going to need TJS when he ramps back up” ones. But a guy who has soreness of these sorts already, does that mess with his other muscles or mechanics when he is ramping up? Injuries cascading like that is a thing.

bears signed her husband, former Packers DB Jonathan Owens.

I still can’t believe the Mariners paid for this guy, but yes credit to Getz for taking advantage of them.

That means only 3 since Cease is definitely getting traded!

All I did was post open eyeballs, that meant my eyeballs were open while looking at my phone! It's not my fault you guys interpreted that differently!

They also know that no one will judge them if they're wrong, it will never be held against them. They will get all the attention, then wait 3 weeks, then do it again. This has happened a half dozen times this offseason from the same posters! It's why this is such a long thread.

You guys are really going all in on "this time they're totally actually insiders and not making stuff up at all, I'm sure it's totally real this time and there's an actual bidding war this time."

Or Jason Benetti who was too smart and chewed funny.

Marking this so I can bump it again in a couple of days.

I think it is difficult for a person to say something honest when their paycheck depends on them toeing the company line.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2020/03/03/white-sox-dallas-keuchel-leadership-25000-team-dinner/4937202002/

Yeah, I'm just a little surprised that "they're all that completely decayed". A lot of times, older guys can come into the season knowing what to expect and get an advantage over young guys based on that. These guys are just so far down the path that the age is winning out. It is interesting to see the improvement from Maldonado though.

Every person you mentioned was being paid by the White Sox at the time they said positive things.