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Nice....the more the merrier. Termarr Johnson would have to be the headliner plus one of Jones/Solometo.

That is still like 12 more days and we are literally dying here. A New Years deal still sucks. Yamamoto should get something done by Friday, Snell to SFG and Montgomery to TEX same day and then a bat heavy Cease deal done in the early hours of Christmas morning.

Sigh....this thing may get dragged out beyond Christmas And here I was with dreams of a quick Yamamoto signing and then waking up on Christmas morning, with smells of a wonderful breakfast emanating from the kitchen and the sound of steaming hot cocoa on the stove, I arose to find multiple left handed savages from Baltimore all beautifully wrapped under the tree, bows and all, forcefully pried from the cold dead hands of Mike Elias with almost surgical precision. It's Basallo and Cowser and Hjerstad, theyre all here! I got every savage on my list. Thank you Santa Chris, oh thank you! As Suzie in Miracle on 34th Street said, "I believe....I believe...its silly but I believe". Alas on 35th and Shields there are no feel good stories. Chris Getz wasn't the good and benevolent Santa and he was in no mood to deliver savagery. He was more like the evil Santa in A Christmas Story. "3 left handed savages? What's wrong with you kid, you'll shoot your eye out! Here's a stale candy cane, some defense and alot of "character""....and then he kicked me down the slide. Such is the life of a Sox fan on Christmas. Hurry it up Yamamoto even if my dream is no more than a fantasy

I liked Codi Heuer when he was here. Whenever i see his name I always think of an Angels/White Sox game where I was watching the local Angels broadcast and the Angels guy said Heuer had the look of a TV/movie villain. He was right too, in that moment on the mound the dude had like an evil smile and his hat was like darkly covering half his face at that angle. It's hard to describe but they were definitely right, almost like a young Frank Gorshin or something who had the look on his face like he had concocted some diabolical plan.

Congrats @caulfield12

I dont think it's a great fit either I just want to use the spectre of the Yankees leapfrogging BAL to make Elias grow a pair.

The Mets aren't a realistic suitor for Cease but the Yankees would be if they lose out on Yamamoto and that could put more pressure on Baltimore.

I too am accepting that it will be ATL and that I'll hate the return. It's sad that Getz is putting his pig headed belief in Limp Dick Ball ahead of the good of the team but whatever. IMO, even if BAL gave him the package he wanted he still wouldn't do it, he's just using them to drive up the price for an all pitching deal elsewhere. Even if Elias wasn't prospect hoarding, I'm increasingly of the belief that BAL is out. I'm not going to twist myself into a pretzel to believe it's a good return. I'm not going to call chicken s%*# chicken salad. f*** Atlanta, f*** the Royals and f*** Chris Getz. Not necessarily in that order.

Anything from ATL that doesn't involve a legit LHS is weak. And no....the fact that they don't have a legit LHS doesn't change that conclusion and is not our problem.

Yeah this is lame. I'd rather go with the Reds if we are going to do something stupid, assuming they are willing to part with Lowder, Petty and Jorge. Fucking lame

Harold you said earlier they are going to get bats in this trade.....WTF.

Super depressing.

From what I've seen he wants to be a Yankee it's just an issue of showing Cashman the other offers and seeing whether they will match or come close. IMO Cohen will present a contract superior to Gerrit Cole's in an attempt to create an awkward situation for NYY where this new guy will have to be making more than their in house Cy Young winner and he's betting NYY won't go that far.

There was a report saying decision expected before Christmas

BAL doesn't really have the ability to match the NYY move for move anyway. I wouldn't necessarily hate a NYM signing, it makes LAD more desperate because their staff is still garbage and is banking on the health of a porcelain doll. It also makes a number of other teams including NYY and BOS more desperate too. I really want BOS to be in on Cease. If we could pry two LHS from them it would be great.

If everyone is around 305 or so I expect NYM to come in at 350 and make Yamamoto decide between desired location and $.

This. Get it done quickly so the market can get going.

You are setting yourself up for extreme disappointment when it becomes readily apparent that "the plan" is to have Beni be the 2nd leading position player in HRs. They are going all in on pitching, D, speed and small ball. They don't care that there's a short porch for LHS at GRF. Getz simply DGAF. It's almost as stupid as constructing a roster full of RHH like his predecessor did.

Ugh....that could blow up in their faces. Too much risk. They have to make a deal before ST.

I think Giants are going to overpay Snell once they are out on Yamamoto so they can show fans they can actually sign someone. But if they were interested I would take Harrison, Luciano and Grant McCray. If they aren't going to give up Harrison, it will be difficult to do a deal with SFG.

Why are we being forced to accept 1 stud plus a bunch of underrated bargain bin prospects if Cease is in overwhelming demand?

So how is it possible that ATL could win the bidding? Seemingly everyone expects that including Bob yet I'm being told both pitchers aren't going to be part of it and I'm being told Kelenic won't be in it either. They don't have the material otherwise. AJSS+ Grissom + Schwellenbach or whatever does not even get them into the zip code of Cease and maybe not even the same galaxy as Cease. That would be worse than the Herschel Walker trade from back in the 80s.

There's too much smoke here Jimmy. We're all hoping it's misdirection but it's coming from everywhere and was it Rogers who said Getz wants to go pitching heavy in this deal. I pretty much give up at this point. And I don't think it would be done already if it's ATL. If they are truly desperate, then they'll be even more desperate when they are competing against the teams who lost out on Yamamoto, Snell, Montgomery etc. If it's ATL they must get Kelenic plus both pitchers. There is no way around it. I'm sick and fucking tired of our lineup looking like trash against any semi-decent RHP.

Push comes to shove and it's only 3 pieces, dump Grissom and insist on Kelenic as the 3rd piece. He has to be in that deal along with both pitchers. Getz has broken me...im starting to accept this will be a SP heavy trade and he doesn't give a damn about savagery. I dont see it being BAL even though we all want it and even if BAL was willing to deal. Dude is all in on pitching, defense, speed and athleticism. He just doesn't care about bats. Just give me at least a little nibble of LH savagery. Just give me something left handed I can be semi excited about at this point. ?

Only way we can realistically get 2 bats and 2 arms is AJSS, Waldrep, Kelenic and Grissom. Kelenic must be in the package if ATL wins the bidding imo.