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Yasmani Grandal just called and he wants his free agency back.

Dallas Kuechel is White Sox for "Carlos Boozer"

- I was thrilled when Hawk finally left the booth - I am happy for him and thinks he deserves this Those 2 things are not mutually exclusive.

Similar at Cots. They have them at $84M, which includes Mazara and est. $8.6M for the pre-arb guys. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQvElKAgm9uyseKLJEGXetnIxljCwEixOmMhSzhEXUan5IOuYnLcJG-bjolPjCtc6q0x6HPrNXJ7Zv7/pubhtml #unprecedentedfinancialflexibility

Look on the bright side- our payroll is over $80M now ....

You’re looking at it backwards. No one is saying signing a player to a big contract is a guarantee. But what percentage of the teams that even make it to the LCS do so without taking at least one big gamble?

Then be prepared to sit at the kids table every October

Potentially replaced Yolmer, Alonso, McCann, Leury, and the three-headed hydra of right field doom with: Madrigal, McCann/Collins, Grandal, Robert, and Ozuna(?) I gotta admit that’s hella upgrade. Is it enough and what about the rotation?

Donn Pall

I can come to peace with a whole lot of other options for RF not named Marcel Ozuna.

Neither is never winning because you refuse to pay market price just on a matter of principal.

It's about risk aversion. Most of the best teams know that you have to gamble and take on a level of risk (usually in the form of contract length) that on the surface appears stupid, but the market dictates that that's the price you have to pay if you want the best players. This organization just doesn't seem to have big enough balls. Man, I hope I'm wrong.

I interpret it as “CWS have just been sued by Zack Wheeler’s uncle for $110m”

This is the BEST. From now on I demand we only post fake tweets in foreign languages! Makes the whole thing infinitely more entertaining.

Career OBP is .341 - this would: a) Give him the third highest OBP on the White Sox b) Make him 44 points higher that Billy Hamilton’s career OBP c) all of the above

Hahn actually had his neighbor go down there and pick a fight for that very reason.

Don't worry. He's signing tomorrow for 3/$50M

What business world do you live in?!?!?!?

Spot on

Just when I thought they were behaving like an intelligent organization .....

As the guy who started this thread, I've never been so happy to be wrong.

White Sox Baseball: Less dumb than we used to be (Brooks can thank me later)

I’m in no way complaining about Luis Robert, believe me. But from what I’ve read and seen, his routes aren’t that great and he’s forced to use his athleticism to recover. I just think there’s a possibility he won’t be as good in the field as we might hope. At least not his first couple years. Doesn’t diminish my excitement to watch him though.

Since the conversation was about defense, in what way does replacing Engel and Yolmer with Robert and Madrigal make a lick of difference? CF defense might actually get slightly worse.