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I'd rather put 2 million into Pacific Rim scouting than burn 21 or so million per on a guy that is probably a 2 WAR SP. Certainly at this point of the rebuild. Not saying the Sox will do that, but this wouldn't have been a good deal for the Sox imo.

Sign Bregman, trade Shaw for pitching

For those who need more confirmation that Moccbomb is a fraud, he reported Imai signed with the Cubs.

Just like with Murakami…

I think thats what they used to call the children who benefitted from Jerry Lewis hosting the Muscular Dystrophy Telethons for many years. Jerry's Kids was in the vernacular back then.

Classic Boras contract with all the opt outs.

Phillip Rivers has inspired a wave of 40+ year old athletes.

I did see those same tweets last night, but as I said he could have checked with his sources after article came out and did in fact had contacted Imai in the last 24 hrs, same way they did with Mune with his window closing. He likely then go more details on the terms Imai/Boras was looking for and that JR won’t likely go for those, then backtracking his original tweet. There are ppl vouching for this guy so I would assume guys like Jimmy knows he has legit connections that he could reach out to even late on NYE. Again, if I’m posing as an insider, I would be a much more interesting follow by fanning the smoke on a potential signing than squashing rumors from other outlets.

@Chicago White Sox will be holding a wake at his house at 4 pm, if you want to pay your respects for the club's loss of Imai. Coffee and pastries will be provided.

Well unless they are good with Cannon and Burke battling it out

No doubt, they need to continue adding. I’d take Giolito or Littell as a consolation prize. Or maybe Kona Takahashi.

This is true to some extent. It is a very player friendly deal, but if you can still get one good year out of him if he truly does pan out and can still give him a qualifying offer and potentially get a draft pick, I don’t see the problem. Now if he sucks, it could be a waste of up to $63 million. My follow-up question would be, what free agent starters out there with the potential to be as good as Imai can be signed for similar money?

That’s definitely a fair perspective. Would have been nice to get him in the building and start building a relationship. Oh well.

I think this guy is going to struggle here, but even still id have no problem signing him. Our payroll is laughable.

Yep there's zero way we were doing anything close to this as sad as that is to say. Moving on....can anyone explain to me what the hell the Cubs are doing?

I’m in the camp of getting a potentially very good player on your team is actually a good thing. Especially with the whole perpetual “beggars can’t be choosers” thing the Sox have going on.

If the Sox signed Imai to this contract, they likely would have traded him at the deadline given the opt outs. Accumulating more prospects is fine, but it’s not like this is a straight 3 year deal.

I don't know what happened last night. But Bob is legit. Harold was legit, etc. I sat this one out because I have an actual career and the nonsense isn't worth my time. I'm not sure Sox were ever even in this one. Jerry was never doing a deal with opt-outs.

Also Y2jimmy0 I completely get that the Yahoo article kind of gained alot of steam. But it only took this guy a tweet from a Japenese reporter(I guess that's what he was?!) retweeting from the same article for the guy to start waffling about what's happening. For me I don't grade on a scale of if you get there that's all that counts. I think all of on here take your reports as gospel but I don't think you put out anything that your not 100 percent on.

Heard sox had the best offer, but the oompa loompa jokes here pushed him to the stros.

Go look at the string of events and NBB’s replies. He totally fell for this Japanese dude’s tweet and made up some BS that there was still some hope for the Sox to sign Imai in his hasty attempt at appearing to know something. Then he realized that this dude was just referencing the original Yahoo Japan article and changed his tune 3 minutes later. That is what happened. NBB didn’t get any communications about the Sox and Imai at 12:45 AM on New Year’s Eve/Day when even Chris Getz is hitting a beer bong for cripe’s sake.

Hey, before you go attacking posters who actually wanted Imai, just remember we had this in the bag before you decided to body shame the little guy!

sounds like its right in the AAV range I suggested $20-25M. $21M AAV for his contract and with the posting fee probaby close to $75M total. I haven't done the math.

Or... hear me out. He's as good as his contract. This place runs as follows. "OH we should sign this guy!" "Oh we NEED this guy." *signs with another team to completely reasonable contract* "Phew, we really dodged a bullet boys. Glad Jerry didnt spend his money on this guy. Gotta save it for the next guy" Rinse and repeat year after year.

Yes that's me with that ancient pic of me.