Sockin

Goldschmidt is signing an extension with the Cardinals in case you missed it yesterday.

Passan is saying its 5/150 now.

There will be no one to spend the money on Rick.

So is he up Opening Day?

Gomez is back

The only way the Sox are going to get a "young impact player" is via trade. They will never pay one in FA, they demonstrated that this off season.

I think the reason everyone is still harping on missing out is because it doesn’t bode well for the future. It’s fine to be excited and optimistic about the prospects but if it comes time to go out and get guys to supplement the prospects that have excelled they will likely fail time and time again because of their broken views on free agency. Is it possible to not play there and win it all? Of course but they’re doing this the hard way when they have the resources available to make this process easier. It’s just extraordinarily depressing that they may waste all of these guys just like they wasted Sale and Quintana.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-manny-machado-bryce-harper-fans-20190301-story.html

This is absurd. They literally think all of these prospects are going to hit good god. If they are trying to lose all their fans this is definitely the way to do it.

God I hope everyone boos on Opening Day. That’s a meatball take but fuck this organization.

“Solid” guys are what got us the 2nd and 3rd place finishes that resulted in the rebuild. The org said they were going to be in the market for big time players to supplement the cost controlled guys.

Who knows. Maybe its a Reinsdorf thing?

What will probably happen is Harper signs with the Dodgers or Giants. Then we will hear from Rosenthal or Nightengale that the Sox were actually in it until the end and offered a 10 year, 300+ million deal to save face.

Signing him, for however long, is a win just because its a signal to the fan base and the rest of the league that they're willing to spend and make this a much more attractive destination.

lol the Sox might be able to have him with a competitive offer (i.e. 300m+ guaranteed dollars and years) and they probably won't go up there.