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I believe the Sox do truly believe in the culture BS highly. when they sign free agents they want them to come in and lead & inspire. i dont know Murakami's communication ability specifically but I think you couple that with the fact JR doesnt want to pay a posting fee to an outside party.. then that is probably gonna be that. Jerry doesnt like agents or finder fees of any sort

The Sox will not sign Murakami but i imagine his situation is holding up some of the 1B market. Maybe O'Hearn signs with whoever is 2nd place on Murakami. Or is waiting to hear that a suitor is going with Murakami before pivoting to us or Pittsburgh. Depends maybe if you believe Mets really are done addressing 1B or not. Maybe Mets are saying Polanco will play 1B just as a way of making the agents of the 1B targets nervous.

saber front offices are the driver of who gets paid extra. Rogers actually, believe it or not, has fantastic Stuff+ so for Rogers being 3 yr, Jansen being 1 yr + team option...that lines up. we saw the same issue with how Fedde's success meant little on the trade market ..vs. the less-successful-better-Stuff+ Kikuchi

Hill is nearly a 1.5 fWAR player who costs nothing. we dont tend to have those sadly ,so he matters

Pereira however may be needed for CF. either now or at deadline.

i'll never look into yourrrrrrrrrrrrrrr eyes........aaaagain

he needs to realize that, yes, they have Dominos Pizza here, but other cities have it as well

the move to make here is another Vargas type move... Marlins really followed that with Stowers, who is a guy that had multiple MLB chances but hadnt done anythng with it. Now he's an All-Star. Hopefully we can talk to someone with a stacked farm system who has people blocked, and we can evaluate traits over performance. I say this because people are not trading bats, or teenagers. Caissie for Houser is unrealistic pipe dream. Same with Alcantara. Same with Shaw.

Rosenthal mentions Philles and Padres, and that Robert should be dealt soon. also says teams bug us for Grant Taylor

Ozzie said "I saw Mark's kids being born in Chicago" and i thought to myself wow managers today have far less control than they used to. If he was in that delivery room, jeez. Kevin Cash would never

Sosa had that snagged at the wall by future teammate Michael Conforto lol

Fedde got Vargas (or Edman) and what is cool about that is he cost a little bit of money in salary..whereas Houser is gonna draw some small market suitors who like the cheapness of it (who probably were not eligible for Fedde in that previous scenario)

at least Tauchman made it to the plate

Leasure suddenly looking like a member of the 1990 Reds Nasty Boys

may all their fans choke via a provel clogged esophagus (minus my wife)

if the sox were slightly better i actually could have seen this happening here. b/c like with the Alex Rios contract that we took on -- Jerry will pay above market value if it isnt negotiated with an agent. if someone else already negotiated that, and he can take the contract on for free, he will consider it he wages war with the agents unlike any other owner. hence the largest contract ever is on par with Oakland -- but we have run large payrolls of course in the alex rios times, we had the cable money coming in

Lets please not start this again, it's not true. he has been the high man on Braden M . He was the low man on Colson but the reason for that is he was observing and reporting (and as it turns out, correctly)

It's not a Wonderful Life

phew we get the lefty/righty matchup here heh

Good Guys Are Watchable

robo umps now

we need getz to find a few more vargases. i repent, chris

the masses were thunderous for Elko. but he may be a better fit in Japan or KBO

And i'm not even a big managers-matter guy, but that jump would happen with Venable, Fuller, Bannister all being elite. And our free agency will have to shift, regardless of how much we spend, from the Hahn era (get what we can) to -- i'm hoping -- a new era of getting what we Need