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That is a tough list. Marquez and tantalizing don't belong in the same sentence. Maybe 5 years ago. Batters had a 933 OPS against him last year AWAY from Colorado. Nick Martinez is OK, and Mahle won't stay healthy but I've always liked him. I just don't see Gio or Bassitt coming here. The rest of those guys are potential DFA candidates and then Scherzer who isn't going to come pitch for the Sox unless there's no other offer available. Think he just wants to compete or retire.

I think this makes a lot of sense too for a departure. Transition period for Rays, he maybe not being considered for top positions/roles and uncertain of his future there.

Bankruptcy 😂 Name calling? Are you Chris Getz? The way you defend Getz is honestly worthy of a restraining order pal. Telling some guy who doesn't want to invest in the team that he'll cut spending to the floor if he just gives him a few pennies (relatively) for some tech and back office resources is not managing up. I can't speak for the titles and levels within the Rays, but his role is expanded with the White Sox, there are fewer VP's/aGM's around him increasing his scope of impact and responsibility, and dare I say the path to GM with the White Sox is much cleaner/more possible than the path to GM of the Rays. Maybe they promised or stated he was next up. Either way, without knowing the details I'd be skeptical that he was moving over without an enhancement of money and responsibility. Edit: He was also unemployed.

Conforto? Jeeze, that's landfill diving not even dumpster diving. You kick the tires too much around him, they're bound to explode.

Managing up is probably one of the most important attributes of any leader who is deserving of promotion/next steps in their career. If you can't manage up, you simply won't succeed. In Getz role, managing up now means getting his boss (ownership) to do uncomfortable things, sign bigger contracts etc. Never forget that the Padres weren't big spenders until Preller came in and sold ownership. Getz has the Sox running the lowest relative payroll since I followed the team. People are celebrating Getz selling a vision to a guy he is literally offering a promotion too. The promotion alone is the most valuable thing he's selling. It doesn't mean the guy isn't smart or capable. As I said, wouldn't have minded hiring him as our GM. Instead, that guy's now got an idiot above him that he has to overcome to succeed at his job.

I've had situations where I had horrible leaders, and I've still succeeded in transformations and leading. All jokes aside, seems like a fine hire. Guy has a good background with nice success. Assistant GM's aren't really moving needles though in the baseball world, so most teams/fans wouldn't really be celebrating news like that. If he was our actual GM, maybe I'd be more excited. Instead, the guy we have is way in over his head as has been apparent for 2+ years now.

Not sure I can get too excited when super star Chris Getz was also our assistant GM and even his greatness couldn't overcome a tough situation.

Wow, this would be a lot of money for a guy who very well might not stick at the MLB level with that swing and miss. I don't disagree with you though, I have his deal closer to 5 years 100 million (Maybe Sox can claim he's their first 100 million dollar guy!!!). Just imagining Jerry paying a high posting fee for a player is pretty funny to think about. Not happening. My fear is if it did happen, this guy would flop so hard Jerry might pull back his sale and murder all Sox fans while on his death bed.

Murakami looks like it is quite a bit higher at glance.

There may be one, but i cant remember any Japanese player coming over with a k-rate that high in Japan and doing anything.

Maybe they want to get a worse player for a higher price tag for fun.

Murakami could legit strike out 250 times in a season.

Those markets aren't considered as small of a market from a competitive standpoint because the NFL does significant revenue sharing and has a salary cap to prevent market size from dictating the quality of team you can put on the field. Also, saying that caps don't matter in other sports when you literally watched the Chiefs have to move all their offensive talent, but for Kelce, to retain Mahomes just shows how pointless this conversation is. I've already wasted too much time here though, as you could present some here with the most indisputable evidence possible and they'll still dispute it.

The size of a market and it's influence doesn't change based on the sport. The NFL has significant revenue sharing. The MLB does not. The Dodgers make 3 times as much revenue as the A's. Meanwhile, the Cowboys are only making twice as much in revenue than the last ranked NFL team. The Chiefs were 18th in revenue during a dynasty run so not sure what you're pointing too. Again though, just you arguing argue. Didn't you say you don't even follow the NFL/NBA anymore?

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R&D is always more expensive than the products themselves. It's an investment in staff and people as well. While the costs are minimal compared to a players salary, as I've said before, they're also costs that require an investment in innovation which is much more affordable to teams with more funds. Additionally, a huge issue with not having approved data and vendors is that a team could technically pay a provider or person to ONLY provide services/data/etc to their team which would be another big issue. I never said this area is where teams gain the biggest edge, but it's another area where teams with more resources come out on top exasperating the inequality issue in baseball.

Royals are small market but Chiefs are big market. LOL, the mental hoops you will go through to continue one of your long winded arguments is good for a laugh in the morning for sure! LIP, every sport has bad owners. You're never going to get rid of all bad owners. Difference is baseball stacks the deck against those teams much more.

Of course you don't, meanwhile teams like the Bucks and OKC!! in the NBA can win titles and retain all their talent, and teams like the Packers and KC have dynasty like runs in the NFL. People like almagast and Westeddy just come into these threads to disagree with me at length, regardless of the logic put in front of them. It's an illness.

Championships in baseball are the byproduct of a playoffs which is much-more luck centric than the NBA playoffs (for example). Division wins and playoff appearances are what drive parity in a sport like baseball. The parity is no where near the same. The correlation between money spent and wins is significant in baseball. Therefore, baseball has less parity given that it has no salary cap and money drives wins/losses. This is very basic math. Using World Series wins as the indication of parity, in a sport with a 162 game regular season, is obviously not the way to asses parity.

Can I just say the WestEddy/Almagest circle jerk is just hilarious to watch in every thread.

Those two scandals involved teams cheating internally, not cheating with another legal business entity that knowingly goes into an agreement with a team against the bylaws of the league. "Interesting in analytics" lol. "People fail governance all the time so I guarantee an MLB team will" is not really something I agree with, but then again you guaranteed it so this discussion rests.

None of these sports are remotely close to baseball. Those things you listed are all within the rules that everyone abides by. Theyre all accessible at fair market prices. I'm not sure what you or ss2k are arguing. Baseball has a significant parity problem that is exasperated by the inequality throughout the sport. I have no idea why any fan would want the richest ownership group to have the advantage. The richest owners will always live in one or two cities. The green bay packers are one of the most successful organizations in the NFL and you think the NFL and MLB are similar in that regard.

LOL, Mark Walter alone is worth 6 times more than Jerry Reinsdorf. The fund itself manages almost 400 billion in assets. Jerry could afford to field a much more competitive team than he does, and the White Sox could make much more money than they do, but in no world could Jerry Reinsdorf compete financially with the Guggenheim fund if there are n restrictions in place.

It will have been 22 years since they had a payroll as low as they're about to have. League revenues have tripled since then. Adjusting for inflation and revenue growth, this will be the lowest White Sox payroll since I have a record.

Picking up the option and immediately trading it would be hilarious. Pushing the Sox payroll under 50 million. Then Getz would get to go make his big splash and sign some bum like Luis Arraez.