Look at Ray Ray Run

Sheets was like the 12th best hitter in his league despite a slow start. Sheesh. You're disappointed in that? Weird stuff. Basebe had a messed up hand/wrist - what did you expect from him? Jack, you get way to down on young baseball players.

Hes not a free agent until next year. He'll be 31 so that might not be too far off. I like him more than machado and harper from 31-35.

With all the talk about Mookie next year I forgot that George Springer is a fa too. Yes please White Sox.

Got it. Wasn't sure what you were saying prior. Losing a 2nd and 3rd would certainly be a good sign.

Hawk was a train wreck at the end. The guy would go entire innings saying like 2 sentences when it was his inning. When the Sox were bad he was unbearable. Jason is light years better than Hawk, it's not even close.

Yeah, great strategy. In an open bidding process put your near top offer out there right away. /s Why do you root for a team that's not s professional franchise?

What does this even mean?

Why would I ever want any poster banned? As much as your thoughts are out there, at least it's another perspective different than mine and I have value in that. 40 million for avi. Yeesh.

Paying him 40 million is still a complete disaster. I'm not sure what you dont understand about will myers but he's bad at baseball in case you were wondering. You think avisail Garcia is going to sign for anywhere near 40 million this off season? My goodness. He'll be lucky to get 8 million.

Can you imagine how scary a rotation of Cole, Kope, Gio and cease would be. My lord the stuff in that rotation would be historically good. Gio would be the soft tosser in the group lol. Maybe lopez figures it out.

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5 WAR over 3 years is not good and is below league average.

Idk, his career ERA and FIP are super close so fWAR a better predictor than bWAR imp.

4.0 1.7 3.5 Those are Quintana's fWAR over the past three years. That ranks 24th in all of baseball. The fact that you think that is similar to Nova, and that you believe they'll just let him go (as do others in this thread) is truly baffling.

The cubs are not signing cole. They are trying to cut salary but you think they're going to give a picture 30+ million a year?

You can go over the cap to resign your own players or veteran minimums. You can't just spend on non-vet minimum players.

Keep moving those goal posts.

The overwhelming negativity is just awful on this board sometimes. No hard feelings either way - passion about something causes passionate conversations and positions. Nothing wrong with either opinion, I just find the narrative lazy personally but I understand why people are down in general.

Sure but they havent been winning. When they competed every year they spent money. It's the entertainment industry. You distribute employee pay based on revenue. To answer the thread, I'll say Wheeler is the first player signed. Also, obviously I'd love an owner who didnt care at all about budgets.

Jerry pays a guy who violates his contract ending his career the full value of his contract. Crickets. Jerry sells a second round pick where his front office doesnt like any available players. "He's cheap!" The first total was more than the second too. Edit: jay got 3 million, so it was .5 less.

They determined that the money was more valuable at a later date then using it on a player they did not value highly. Not sure what you dont understand. I guess every nba team is cheap.

Yes I'm nick friedel because I pointed out that the White Sox factually spent a higher percentage of revenue on payroll than any team in baseball for an extended period of time... while you parrot your ignorant "Jerry is cheap" sentiment. Don't let facts get in the way of your narrative though.

The payroll should be based on revenues, not the city you exist in.

Lol this is literally the quote and article that balka derived his absurd take from. That's the exact quote...

I posted the literal quote. Spin that nonsense however you want, but the bulls liked 5 players and they were not there so they moved the pick to obtain capital to use later on something they actually valued. Which NBA teams do all the time.