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I normally get mad at grammar errors when people don’t use a period at the end of a sentence. 🤣😉

I normally get mad at spelling errors but seams is acceptable on a baseball forum

Which probably means it is some combination of the Reds not wanting to give up that much talent and/or the Sox not wanting to eat $10 million, since they haven’t agreed to a deal yet.

Yeah... that seams highly unlikely. Sox want pitching for Robert, yet are going to trade away pitching? No chance.

Michael Harris is the only guy from the Braves that would make any sense at all in this type of trade.

This is what we know. Nightengale reported on active discussions with Reds and Mets and said Sox are targeting pitching in return. Wittenmyer reported Sox could eat as much as $10 million and he specifically mentioned Brandon Williamson, Chase Petty and Julian Aguiar. The comp pick hasn't been reported anywhere. I'd take any combination of those arms plus the comp pick for Robert right now pretty easily.

Nothing to this, just posting for the spectacle of random trade ... I won't even call them rumors. Brain worms.

I still think Joshua checked a lot of punches. Yea he broke Jake’s jaw, but that knockout punch was such a “here it comes, buddy” windup lol

Im not sure what's so embarassing or funny about that quote. As owner, JR should be brought up to speed from his marketing department and GM about the on field and marketing implications involved with signing Murakami. This is something the Sox have never done before. This isnt Ohtani or LA so can anyone truly know how much this signing may mean as to increased revenue from various sources yet ? If it was expected to make that much of a difference why wouldn't someone else outbid the Sox ? Boyer is going to have to earn his money if there are Japanese sponsorships and advertising and season ticket revenue out there from the Murakami signing. This is just what corporations do before an unexpected major transaction since it all happened so quickly.

Doesn’t look like we will be getting a brothers revenge or a rematch for Jake any time soon

Lmao. Most stadiums are boondoggles

The Imai market is moving very slow . Imai made a translated tweet yesterday that supposedly said that he's received 0 formal offers yet . He may not get $130M which seems to be your minimum expected salary. The length of the deal will surely be the determining factor. The starting pitcher market is slow developing and the general feeling among owners is that Cease got too much and some agents may be waiting to see what Imai gets before they finalize any deals for their clients. Owners may be trying to "correct" the SP market prices by keeping Imai years and AAV in the 4/5 years $22-25M range as an unproven arm. Doubt there's much chance the Sox can sneak into the Imai negotiations unless Ishbia truly is involved and I don't trust the 1 rumor that he was called by Getz after the Murakami signing. https://fansided.com/mlb/mlb-rumors-tatsuya-imai-shocker-tigers-bregman-bummer-red-sox-options

I honestly wouldn't mind the Bears spent most of their draft picks on defense in this upcoming draft. Ben Johnson to me can turn chicken s%*# into chicken salad on offense.

Fans and politicians will be pissed if they leave, but it’s the very same folks saying don’t give them a dime though the Bears are asking for money for infrastructure around the stadium. Bears leaving kind of has to happen tbh.

They were interested in Okamoto though. I believe he was #1 priority until Murakami's price somehow got down to what they thought Okamoto's price would be.

Don't know. I thought that was presented as the level of what the Reds were offering, and that Getz was trying to get another player added.

The Sox weren't in the discussions with the other guy either until his price fell to a fraction of expectations, aka the Jerry special.

That's what the Reds reporter either speculated on, or educatedly speculated on. in his first article on this topic. We have never really gotten a clear report of the Reds are offering the following...

I'm not really sure then other than I'd guess it's some circular reporting/bad translations. Either way, cant imagine Sox do anything here despite me believing he was #1 priority coming into the offseason.

Krall just trying to create some leverage. Getz isn't going to get Petty, the OFer and the pick regardless, especially from a low cash flow team that can't afford to write checks to solve problems.

Has that rumor been of whom Getz is looking to acquire or whom the Reds are offering?

Based on what the "insiders" are saying, it sounds like the offers are decently apart. We keep getting reports on what the Sox are asking for, but not as much what Cincy is offering at this point.

NBC Sports is reporting otherwise, per a Yahoo Japan article. Since I can’t read the article, here is what they said: https://www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/baseball/player-news?playerNewsId=0000019b-6b62-d35e-a1bf-6fe25b5c0000 Here is what MLB Trade Rumors is saying: “Kazuma Okamoto Travels To U.S. For In-Person Meetings With Teams”

Take the walks, never swing outside the zone, that sort of thing. Analytics blueprint. A few effective hackers will help to keep pitchers guessing.

The article just mentions Padres, Pirates and Angels and its taking it from this tweet. He has no meetings set-up per that link yet. The other teams are mentioned seemingly as speculation from an old MLB Trade Rumors article on if they miss out on Bregman (?). https://x.com/i/status/2005298697425633589