SoCalChiSox

Anything decent going on on the Kimbrel front? I get the feeling Conforto won't sign before lockout unless someone hits 100.

Jack, I suspect JR had to be dragged kicking and screaming for that offer a few years ago. He doesn't like paying pitchers big money (to him, 100m plus is prolly big money). The idea that the FO was gonna get him to agree to do that PLUS a big investment at either RF or 2B is not realistic. If they want two big splashes they can probably buy one and trade Vaughn or some other big time youngster for the other. They aren't buying both.

If they misread the market, which should surprise exactly no one, they need to pair a prospect or eat some money on DK to help open up some extra cash.

So basically other than maybe Kimbrel trade for stuff no one here wants, we aren't gonna accomplish anything.

Camry is a great car tho. I've had mine for 15 years and it's been great and I can prolly hold onto it for another 3-4 years.

So we're sending a prospect then?

LOL

I highly doubt NYM will accept Kimbrel for McNeil straight up but that would be super awesome.

Not for us fans it won't be.

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.

Get Conforto and Schwarber done, get Kimbrel shipped out.

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.

Horrific.

Dude....where was the deal today?

Yep. Thats a garbage result.

Why concern ourselves with SP when we are trying to lock down Leury first?

When r the Sox going to do something meaningful and by meaningful I dont mean trading one man's trash for another man's trash?

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.

Lol....no

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).

With Philly I'm assuming? We need savages pronto.

THIS Bring me left handed savages!

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.

When?