There are many possible inferences for their lack of activity.
You've listed one of them. Another is they totally misread the market.
A third is they are content to play in the shallow end of the pool.
I'm guessing some combo of 2/3 are more likely than the first.
I dont get why we would sign Castellanos over Schwarber. If we are adding a bat only guy he damn well better be a lefty.
And no I don't want to hear money as the reason. We haven't spent much at all.
And I don't want to hear because Schwarber isn't gonna sign before the universal DH rule is clarified. If that's the case, theoretically Castellanos shouldn't be signing either.
Chicago better sign BOTH Conforto and Schwarber tomorrow.
And he won't be able to prove himself if he's patrolling the OF because he will always get hurt, necessitating the move to DH, and trading of Vaughn to open up LF for Schwarber, since JR will insist on another Abreu extension.
Implying a Vaughn trade...kind of like Harold a few days ago.
Although that doesn't make sense...if it did, the key time would be 4:25pm not 4:26 pm, unless he threw in that extra minute as a smokescreen.
Ofcourse this is an absurd deal. Cishek claims the Sox wouldn't guarantee a 7th year. I'd be royally pissed if they truly offered him a 6 yr deal (or any deal at all....its like they don't know or care what our needs are).
Ok so I guess I'll just take a walk and watch the rest of the Broncos game and then I assume thereafter we will have a 30 page thread about the Conforto signing and trading Kimbrel for Nola.