Buehrle>Wood

He was actually recalled from AAA. He was sent down last week.

Cordell definitely a surprise as the 25th

I dont see any post on there. But theres a Ruddy Rodriguez in DSL.

He made Padres opening day roster. Either stupid or extension inbound

Jay proves to be a nice fit for this team. Nova is complete gutter trash and dropped from the rotation. Alonso is whatever. Santana is serviceable. Bullpen proves to be one of the best in the bigs the first few months.

At least two of the those were franchise changing moves so I'd say yeah big deal

If it wasnt real itd be leaked that it wasnt real. No way both camps would let it get this far with no denial.

Because our attendance sucks as no one goes to the games. 2nd home game is traditionally one of the worst attended games of the season. Mid-series callup after the off day and a Saturday home game, it would become one of the better attended games. Anything to create excitement and get a gate.

I wonder if they avoid the KC series and call him up for the home openers. Maybe even that Saturday game.

The service time manipulation doesnt matter once he signs. 8 years is 8 years.

Lot of guaranteed money to buy out 1 year of free agency.

Theres no time manipulation once he signs.

Jose beast mode this spring

Our bullpen could be top 5 in MLB.

That actually ended up being a decent amount of money.

"Only" 36 per year. Well worth it.

Per ESPN

Pretty simple and nothing to do with total wins. We needed a someone who could lead off, someone with a decent OBP, and he had to play CFer as it's the only spot where no one would be blocking anyone of even remote relevance. Jay checks every box there. The fact that hes a stop gap doesnt hurt as we do have some interesting CF prospects, just not now. If Adam Engel is your every day CFer, Renteria is not batting him leadoff. Moncada and Anderson hit lead-off in 135 games last year....something they should never be doing basically (Anderson especially) and wont be on the next successful team. Jay relieves that and places two of our more developmental players into more proper roles. If we spent a million or two too much on him, who cares? We weren't spending that money anyways. The more egregious overpays were pretty much everyone else added. No one should care about that kind of money or the blocking of Adam Engel

Yep. Going to post for the 50th time this offseason that Jay is a nice fit for this team regardless of everything elss.

Eloy is a lame pick.

Anderson needs to be up there. Abreu and Moncada were my other 2.

Underwood really should be fired if money wasnt a thing.

The mid 00 White Sox were probably the cleanest team in the league in terms of guys caught or even suspected PED cheaters. Obviously they had some but everyone did.

I have wonder if we sent him down early for not signing his contract.

Jon Jay is a nice fit on this team regardless of the reasons he was signed for and I will keep reiterating that until its accepted as fact.