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Nah. More likely Collins and or Zavala.

Yep. I even posted the end here for fun and admins weren't having any of it. 😂

Rosenthal doesn't typically have a positive outlook on the Sox, but his post earlier does hold some truth. Focus on real world today dollars. I don't think deferred money can really be included in that kind of comparison

there's too many people involved for a signing to not leak at this point

Has to be bogus. If it were real, it would have said #SuperSecretSpecialSauces

Because yesterday he was all "give me all the questions" and today said basically that he doesn't want to talk about something that hasn't happened

70%+ tax is not happening.

Would you rather the secret deal is Harper + Machado vs Pedersen + Machado?

Unless it's Harper too.

People called it Sox Park because that was the official name for the first few years, and again from the early 60's to mid 70's it wasn't always officially Comiskey.

You all missed national do nothing day

He took the most expensive AAV deal he could find.

Do family perks/extras end up in the actual salary figure?

Only one member viewing? What is happening???

Doesn't anyone have any new sauces?? I'm hungry!

You're welcome. 🤣

Ummm. Uh oh.

Yeesh. MLB Radio still reporting the 7/175 deal, with a "but Lazano states that it's not accurate" Way to go MLB, keep it up

Can't say I expected to find a For King & Country music video up in here, but I'll take it! 😂

That article does not address the competitive balance tax, and the impact that it has, and it has a pretty big impact. There is a point at which throwing crazy/stupid money at one player does not make good business sense. I'm not saying that the 7/175 offer is to that point, but the author of the article is just not being realistic. Unless you are going to somehow demand that all teams have a 200+million payroll, there are going to be market corrections.

It's been said that Machado doesn't want to be on the left coast. Didn't like it there

Not sure. He also tweeted this yesterday, so he seems to have an imagination Note... Twitter link embedding doesn't like me

Then the league had better figure out how to re-balance the luxury tax

When the sub $200m dollar figure was mentioned, was 7 years also mentioned? If not, possible that the sub $200 figure was at a particular opt-out point, not the whole possible year and dollar count

It makes great sense that JR is in the lead. Much easier to hammer out specifics without having to call the boss with every little thing that wouldn't necessarily be an automatic yes. He did PK's last deal, if I recall, and also most of Frank's, including the 5 year mutual option contract that was somewhat unique. He's a smart guy