fathom

wouldn't be all 106 million...Cubs would likely pay half or so and take on Melancon.

yep, usually by now you would have had a "Machado still undecided, no decision has been made" tweet by a national guy.

There would be more coming and going I bet, with Giants unloading Melancon's salary, etc. I think the trade is more about just getting Heyward off the roster than it is freeing up his salary.

If they couldn't unload Heyward, just put him in CF and Harper in RF

Betting Giants

Well today sucked

No chance, if they strike out on both big guys, there is going to be a giant fan revolt. Yonder will just be Exhibit A of the team’s failure.

They will in a heartbeat. I said the day the Sox get him that if they don’t get Manny, he will be the whipping boy on the 2019 roster.

I’m going with total salary. I doubt anyone goes to 42 mil a year if the 8/280 is your base

If you think about it, it’s an extra 2-2.5 million a year. More than worth it for not being able to afford an incredible player like James McCann.

Or have an incredibly inflated view of how players view the culture and prestige of the organization.

He’s a DH only. If Sox really are interested in these guys, then they are 100 percent trading one of Jose or Alonso.

No, sure seems like a teammate/friend told him Manny is signing with the Yankees next week. Clark isn’t an idiot, as he even retweeted the story again in the last hour

How would they be able to comment if they didn’t talk to that same player?

I really want the Sox to get Manny. With that said, him being on the Sox could be a total disaster if they struggle a few years. It’s also funny to think of Ricky micromanaging Manny like he’s a high school softball player.

Supposedly this is Holy Innocents Day and considered like April’s Fools

Who’s to say Yonder doesn’t know by now?

Because he doesn’t want to take his physical in NY until after New Years so he can be with his family this week? Also, who knows, maybe he thought it would be incredibly awkward to announce around Christmas he was going to Yankees and then spend the next week hanging out with the same guy who was trying to recruit him to a different team?

Not in today’s twitterverse

He used to work for the Orioles. Again IIRC, their fans respected his scoops last year.

Alonso for Gray

My thoughts are the Manny could easily have told someone like Schoop that he’s going to sign with Yanks after NYE. I would guess Schoop has a better relationship with Clark than the national guys.

Sox can have a good offer and Manny takes less for the Yankees and it wouldn’t mean that the Sox were being cheap. No one is saying he signs with Yankees for 15 mil a year.

And we don’t get nice things because you’re not good at your job.

This is against everything I usually believe in, but people need to be patient with Hahn for the next few months. Still a lot of transactions possible around the majors.