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Jeff Samardjza was better than Sonny Gray at the time of their acquisitions.

But imagine a world where they manage to come in 3rd ahead of the Cubs. That would be fun.

HE CAN"T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

If we can't take a guy that touts being incarcerated at his word, then who can we?!

I'm getting quite a bit of schadenfreude from Phillies fans being crushed by fake reports. It's nice to know your not alone.

Not since winning stopped being the driving force of the bottom line.

There is something to be said about actually trying to improve your team in this day and age, but it's separate from success/failure in acquiring the guy or not.

Isn't that, like, exactly what everybody has thought for a month now? Why is that not good for the Sox? Dumb tweet

He also carried a much higher soft contact %. It's probably an outlier, but I'm more comfortable saying that something was off about Harper's meh year than I am with Machado

Machado's 2017 was such an anomaly it should be completely thrown out. He had by far his worst BABIP of .265 despite having his best Hard contact percentage and no significant change is his GB/FB ratio compared to 16 and 18. That's historically bad luck for a player of his caliber.

The white Sox or Padres signing that deal makes zero sense

I don’t see anything on Harper specifically but the Phillies had a big jump to win the World Series up from 18/1 https://mobile.twitter.com/OddsShark/status/1090082189734264833

Must be nice

Pretty sure he almost blew up the Shields trade. Shame really.

I would put the Sox at 60%, The Phillies at 30% and the field at 10%

I think that was more of them saying they aren't going to trade guys for short term answers. It's literally impossible for them to not sign stop gaps at this point.

He almost certainly is smart enough to know that. That still doesn't make it wise to publicly admit that you're in deep if you fail to get the guy.

Again, what else is he supposed to say given that question? Publicly acknowledging that they need him as bad as they do would only make Hahn's job more difficult.

Let's maybe just put the pitchforks away until there's a signing, yeah?

Reading into a bunch of GM speak like it means anything is being pretty irrational.

Oh man the sky is falling today, huh?

Sure but being an interesting person doesn’t make you a good pre game analyst

I would put the odds of it getting done on a weekend somewhere around 0%