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At least I think people accept now that signing Soler and Rosario doesn't = World Series.

Pretty amazing he got that! ATL knows what it wants and goes and gets it.

I think you will win this bet.

Increases overall revenue though, no?

This reminds me of when the sox were in the penalty with Robert and had years to specifically focus on the 2019 intl class and they walked away with Yolbert Sanchez and sent the rest to texas for lolz.

Like, "at their new AAVs, Seager and Semien would be >50% ($228) of what Texas has spent on payroll over the last 4 years ($410M)" Still impressive and shows how they will be operating at a considerably higher annual budget and doesn't do the stupid taking the lump sum of the contract as if its paid out today.

I will never accept cutesy framing like this and it is so offensive to me

it's almost better for him. He's the new JA Happ "get me a lefty that can bank me a 4.5 ERA"

confused as to whether NYY is ever gonna come to bat here.

these prices are completely unsurprising minus scherzer.

Well, hope Correa avoids DET.

wellp.

I'd be a fan.

ah, love that feeling of knowing nothing will happen, but just going thru the motions of waiting for the final gun.

oh I know it.

Starting to prep my Drew Smyly material

somewhere @TomPickle is shedding a tear

If you exclude Scherzer, the pitching deals so far are nothing any GM should have been shocked by. This is a straight line from previous deals to this one, maybe even more reasonable.

ah, are we back in the thing where we need to handicap the franchise to show the other owners what good little boys we are so we get them onboard to put tighter screws on the MLBPA?? Love it. Great strategy. That's why you become an owner.

Rick Hahn: "Good luck topping that offer!" *Player easily tops offer and signs elsewhere* "Good luck topping that offer!" *Player easily tops offer and signs elsewhere* "Good luck topping that offer!" *Player easily tops offer and signs elsewhere* "Good luck topping that offer!" *Player easily tops offer and signs elsewhere* "Good luck topping that offer!" *Player easily tops offer and signs elsewhere*

That's just the gausman deal. Very annoying. This pitching problem sucks 100x more than 2b to me.

you know to start the offseason I would have said there's no way he takes a 1 year deal, but maybe he gets an AAV he likes and thinks he can recreate what Semien did (or moustakas before that?) I still think there's plenty of money sloshing around that he finds what he wants, but wouldn't be shocked if he did it now.

eh at least on the high end I think soxtalk generally hits better than that. MLBTR tends to hit the mid market better, where this board is always shocked when an average SP gets 10+M

Soxtalk continues to be better at reading the market then the front office, then.

I don't think anyone has actually put conforto and sox together, except y2jimmy, and even then it seemed like an informed hunch. Bruce was the one that highlighted sox with Boras, but mentioned Semien and Bryant (how it wouldn't be bryant)