Cashman

The life of the contract, has nothing to do with the luxury cap. MM is a generational type of player.

The number is $30M, not $300M. Even if you add $30M right now to the payroll, they are no where near the luxury cap. This is a foolish argument.

Absolutely not for 1yr rental.

I would be very happy, but the Soxian movie is to re-sign Nova.

It make absolutely no sense, how they handled him last season.

They moved Moncada once they figured their offer wasn't seriously considered. As soon as I saw him practicing at 3B, I knew they lost out on Machado.

Totally..... Yolmer>Machado

I am not saying there is a correlation between analytics and arm injuries, but jesus christ have we had a lot of Tommy John surgeries lately.

Patrick, is that you?

StubHub is owned by Ticketmaster.

Wonder if there is a correlation between this and HAVING to have digital tickets at Comiskey?

Not allowed to criticize the White Sox!

If it results in a WS, I am all for it.

I think he is suggesting a promotion in order to be "nice". He takes this promotion to keep the loyalty instead of firing.

Dye, specifically said, someone offered him more money, but he gave the Sox his word. AJ said he wanted X amount, but the Sox only had less than that to spend. They traded Lee because they would have to re-sign him, had nothing to do with changing the top of the order. Also, are you suggesting they knew they would win the WS?Really, you are gonna split hairs with Jay/Herrara? If you remember that Buehrle contract, they didn't wanna re-sign him, until the backlash.

I would LOVE to hear them.

Why did they let Belle walk? Why did they put a diminished skills clause in Thomas' contract? Why did they let Ventura leave as a player? Why did Dye/Pierzynski take less money in 05 to come to the Sox? Why did they trade Lee before the 05 season? Why did they go to Paulie and AJ when trying to get Dunn and have them delay their salary to sign him? Why do they seem to trade for guys with 2-3yrs left on their contract rather than singing a guy for 5-6yrs in FA? Why did you just dump money with the Nate Jones trade? What happened in this past offseason? Jon Jay was your biggest FA acquisition... Let that sink in. We met with Bryce at the beginning of FA, had the United Center photo leaked and never another word. The amount of Jersey sales/ticket sales would of paid at least half his salary and that is not counting the endorsement money from being on the cover of games. And the Machado thing... He literally said he wanted $300M and the Sox literally had no competition all offseason until it was leaked their offer was under $200M. And what did he do? Signed for $300M like her said. They saw early on backlash from the fans, and then they had better play from Moncada/Giolitto and the rest of the team. And people got excited and went to games. And they are trying to sell us the same garbage as last offseason. And people are gonna buy it. And we are gonna go into next season with the same results, but this time Robert and Madrigal are going to be on the team doing what Eloy/Moncada/Giolito did this year. And it is just a big circle jerk. This teams problem is pitching, and they REFUSE to pay more than 3yrs to a pitcher. So you are not being "objective" by thinking this is gonna change. People DO NOT CHANGE, they just don't. Jerry cares about money. There is a reason FAs do not sign with the Bulls, and it is not because they have to live up to MJ. It is because he is cheap and puts dumb clauses in contracts. Why? Because Jerry is cheap!

If his FB is in the low 90s, that isn't good.

I want Cease up ASAP with what is happening with all these TJ's and he already having one. The problem is, the amount of innings he has thrown as a pro, and I wanna say he was around or a smidge over 100ip last year.

$4M for a low level prospect IF they are able to trade him.

He's not gonna stay healthy for that.

Steele Walker/Nate Jones for Happ/Chatwood

I think if we are looking for players to take steps forward, correct. Not a terrible amount are going to be ready. I think Eloy is up opening day, after that maybe a RP out of need. I think Madrigal might be up at some point, I say that because of the move of Moncada to 3B for him. After that, maybe Cease at the end of the season like Kopech. Maybe...... Collins gets a look, I think he has an MLB bat, not sure on that defense, nor a position since we have enough DH/1B on this team. IF Robert makes it a full season without getting hurt, I think he could be up in 2020.

Boras has over estimated the market for his guys. Moose got a 1yr deal and has to play a different position in Milwaukee. Everyone thought Harper was gonna get $400 mill, but settled on $25M a year. My guess, he signs a 1yr deal.

The Sox hit rock bottom, when they failed to land a major FA this offseason. We have become the Pirates.