Look at Ray Ray Run

Exactly, the Sox gave up their leverage by picking up an option and basically broadcasting to the world they picked it up to move it. Everyone in the world knows Jerry isn't going into the tax, and everyone knows the Sox can't make a signficant move without getting out from under Kimbrel's contract. Wait out the trade if you're another team and the Sox run out of time to use that transaction as a starting point to make other moves.

For me it's a timing issue. Kimbrel feels like a late off-season (right before the season starts) move because he'll be waiting for other relievers to sign like Jansen. By then, the good RF'ers could very well be off the market. Maybe the Sox decide Kimbrel is being moved no matter what and they spend before the trade, but that doesn't strike me as a very White Sox thing to do. So if they miscalculated anything, it's the timing the move would happen which could hamper them making any other signficant moves. It wouldn't be the first time they misread a market and cost themselves either. Also, I just don't think keeping him makes much sense if they trade him for a non-asset, or trade him for another overpaid asset that fills a hole. I just think the idea that they're going to be able to trade Kimbrel for some package that improves the club this year, opens up dollars to be spent, and allows them to spend them before the guys that would help them sign is a heck of a difficult scenario to achieve.

Greinke is washed; looked like Keuchel down the stretch.

It's honestly as if Hahn had to tear down the Sale/Q team that was stars and scrubs and decided that the way to avoid having stars and scrubs is to sign a ton of scrubs instead of a single star. I guess he figures if you acquire 10 scrubs maybe one will surprise you.

The Reds aren't tanking. There's no end goal here for them. They're just... not spending regardless of their draft pick lol.

I'm not starting Niko Goodrum. He's my utility guy. Good baserunner. Can play every position on the diamond. Maybe he gets lucky and has a mediocre offensive year. Honestly I'd probably sign Cesar to be my starting 2B if I knew this was where we were at, and I'd be 4 million over Hahn's budget.

Who knew Keuchel and Grandal would encompass the entirity of "supplementing this core financially" from Hahn in Free-Agency three years ago. If you would have told me when the rebuild started that the Sox weren't going to break the 100 million dollar threshold on any player in FA to support the rebuild I would have thought you were crazy. Now I know I was probably the crazy one.

Given that Rick will give these same BS contracts out next off-season and the one after that, the point will continue to be accurate.

When and if the Sox don't make a splash, I'll look back and remember that the White Sox spent 30 million dollars to Kimbrel/Leury/Harrison/Velasquez The Sox could have signed: Goodrum - 2.1 million Conforto - 22 million Wittgren - 1.2 million Chris Martin - 3 million?

Freddie Freeman to...... Toronto?

very important piece of this year!

Suarez could easily earn his contract and that's considered taken money to lessen a deal. The Reds are embarrassing. I've wanted the Sox to target Mahle of almost any guy available this off-season so would love to see what that costs.

Wow, Winker is awesome.

Not really sure why; basically replacing Kopech and Tapera with Kelly and Graveman. I'd rather have the previous group.

The Sox have spent 27 million this off-season and arguably have not improved the roster. Pretty impressive.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here, riding a motorcycle is signficantly more dangerous than driving a car.

GTFOH this man didn't even call Freddie.

From what I do know, Freddie is one of the most well liked guys across the entire game. That doesn't mean his agent and Braves management have had peaceful talks, but from a guy standpoint Freddie is about as stand up as you'll fine playing professional sports. Ranks right up there with Buster.

Calling riding a motorcycle a hobby is like calling drag racing a hobby; technically it might be, but as a professional athlete it shouldn't be. I'm surprised they don't have this worked into his contract, and frankly it's a pretty absurdly stupid risk for the kid to continue to take.

This is just really weird and fff'ed up if you ask me.

unless the braves have a wizard in their front office, there's no way of telling when freddie freeman is going to stop being freddie freeman. certainly not any signs of that yet.

lol

I'm not sure how one could compare Carlos Rodon to Freddie Freeman but by god, you've done it!

Olson is younger, but to give up all that prospect capital when you could have just re-signed the leader of your recent World Series team is weird to say the least.