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Cooper isn't a fan of all the new-aged stuff...he just wants to see his starters go 6 innings

This guy was one of the first to mention the Padres were in on Manny. He sure seems confident they're going to get him...and if it's true that 8/250 would seal the deal, the Sox really just need to move to Portland during the night. https://twitter.com/UpstateNYY_315

IIRC, he didn't say progress had been made, just that there were conversations in the last 48 hours.

I'm betting in today's scouting age, his fastball would have been nowhere near an 80 with the bigger emphasis on spin rate.

Gomez has been retweeting quite a few things relating to Padres and Manny. Hopefully this is all just a leak to get the Sox to up their offer.

I never said the Sox are in the lead. I just think if the Sox had no shot at him, Yonder wouldn't be publicizing that. I also don't think he would specifically FaceTime Manny and have two other teammates tell him they wanted him to sign if he knew they had no shot.

I could totally see the Dodgers being interested in Jace

Yonder wouldn't be face timing him right before the ceremonies if he didn't think they had a shot at him. There's absolutely no reason for him to do that and share it with the public then.

yep, if you take a step back, some of the comments would almost be trolling that have been made by Hahn and Alonso.

Yep, Bruce has an article today saying that Ozzie is possibly going to be a part of broadcast team

He will have Madrigal in top 100. It will be Robert or Adolfo he doesn’t have in top 100.

Just means he hasn’t accepted it. You can tell which Sox reporters think they have a chance to sign Manny and which ones don’t. edit: feel free to say I interpreted it wrong and that DVS is saying that Lozano didn’t even respond to the offer.

Something doesn’t add up with the Padres as the mystery team with the highest offer. Andy Martino mentioned that Manny visited a mystery team a few weeks ago, and Heyman suggested that team has highest offer. Does this mean there’s another mystery team besides Padres?

I don’t think he ranks them if they’ve made the majors, so no Kopech is my guess.

Relax, Phillies are probably way more of a threat still. If he goes to Padres, it means to me the Sox were never serious.

Only 4 Sox made KLaw list according to him on the radio

Did they provide fraudulent box scores also?

As Hahn said, it's a binary issue. He either gets him or doesn't. Not getting him would be inexcusable, as that would be two straight offseasons where they didn't add any premium or controllable assets.

He's actually a fascinating person. If you haven't listened to his podcasts with Chuck, you definitely should.

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if it was as close as he said, I find it next to impossible to imagine Yonder saying what he did last night.

Moncada (yuck)

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Well if it's true they were never going over 30 mil a year or limiting their offer to 7 years, they were never serious to start with