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Still think Hendriks for Gleybar is a thing, personally.

On board with all of DAs thoughts. Only a team ridiculously tying one hand behind their back would be in this position. But if you are…

You haven’t had a $15M raise in three years? In this economy? Sorry man.

oof yeah that is brutal

dodgers will give him like 3 for 120 to be a reserve infielder and it has an optout each year.

I'm gonna say under. Obviously the last two years help, but I still think many of the orgs don't believe in his availability.

Can't answer without the return.

He definitely will. Most top FAs get way more than fans expect, he's an example of one that will get less.

It only took 3 offseasons for Manny Machado's deal to look normie. Nolan Arenado's looks positively paltry.

Trea Turner has been one of my fav ball players of the decade. What a world where instead we have Rodon on our team and are targeting Turner rather than watching both that we had and could have had in our "tank" year go to teams serious about winning.

wow did not realize how good he became what the hell nevermind they are amazing

I feel like they lessened that mystique with DeJongs tenure

More than anything I just think we need a SS who is going to be strong defensively to set the tone on all the mistakes we see. Anderson does get to a lot, as Jose valentin prior, but I do think the sloppiness feeds off each other. In my patented 2023 plan, it included a follow-up to trade out TA and instead sign Swanson. Do I buy swanson's top? No. But I don't think "let's swap out TA for Bogaerts" passes anyones laugh test, but maybe swansons market is more strict than expected. And he is so, so solid, and comes from a winning franchise.

Their top prospect is Jordan Walker, and Matthew Liberatore is a great pitching prospect. Nolan Gorman is a not convincing 2b but is LH power that hasn't yet translated as much in big leagues

I think good ref point for Rodon will be zach wheelers 5 year 120. It came after a pop-up year after years of lack of health. He signed it for age 30 season, same as Rodon. Years have passed, bigger CBA, more competitive teams. I'd say 6 for 180 is feasible, 5 for 150 is likely, 5 for 140 maybe the low -end of expected.

I think I'd be happy for a clean break as well. Either him or TA. But I realy did like the idea of getting a gleybar and having them compete for 3b and say loser goes to 2nd and knock yoan into more competitive state.

the sox have zavala on a 4 year contract...

well yeah. They had the new ownership group come in, they brought in a ton of the yankees F.O. They seemed to be on a pretty clear rebuild. They had a top ten farm...then Jeter leaves, they seem to stop trying to add, their farm takes a huge hit with max meyer. But this is a world series rotation. They are going to blow it up again?

I would be scared to give him a 1 year 18.5 m offer in case he signed. Would totally derail some bullpen signings.

I don't understand the marlins right now. At all.

no but he still blossomed offensively and we were like "Ok we know defense here at the white sox, and that guy don't have it!"

yeah. But I kinda don't want to see kershaw be anything else but a dodger at this point.

remember when we used to look up the amount san diego needed to pay for their stadium debt and be like "no way they can sign them"!

I'm not sure how much of my fandom is left to die but I can't imagine how much of me will die if they trade carlos perez and he ends up like a omar narvaez guy.

I don't think the white sox should rebuild. I think if steve cohen was owner there is an easy path with this FA class to put the white sox in the world series. I'm just saying that there are good years to sell and bad years. This year a lot of orgs are competing, and the top ten farms include many of those teams. You don't want to sell when the top ten farm systems are made up mostly of rebuilding clubs, because they aren't going to trade them at that point. Right now BAs top ten farms include Orioles, Dodgers, Guardians, Rangers, Cardinals, Mets. If you are like, the brewers, and decide you are at the end of the rope with this group and farm, you could easily just rake in tons of those orgs top prospects.