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hmm, I don't think this is right.

I'm really grossed out by how MLB is so indifferent about other leagues being legitimate competition for top talent. Go NPB, keep retaining and taking mlb talent.

I continue to maintain that the bigger issue isn't Jerry's spending limits, it's that Kenny and Rick continue to act surprised by them. This is a team that has a lot of cheap talent. Thankfully, Hahn was able to lock them up so they can grow for years. But, all eyes for them need to be on drafting, INTL and development. I love having hendriks, but if you were to tell me the sox were going to roll with a 120 mill budget this year but they plan to take advantage of other teams cutting back in intl and going big with scouts and upgrading DR facilities, I'd say that's a good use of money. Sox with their farm have to get lucky. No regression from the guys that look like they'll be great, Vaughn and Kopech need to hit, and we need our young prospects to show a lot of promise this year to help us load up on ml cheap talent, if not use them.

Remember when for no reason at all the Sox fed nightengale to say they specifically NOT going to put a bid on for Harper after losing Machado? They knew they wouldn’t get him, but this made sure a fellow owner didn’t negotiate against themselves.

No no no. It’s that Jerry will not let his team be a bidding prop in the media because that raised players salaries. And suppressing salaries is Jerry’s #1 goal.

53k yesterday in IL. Monday was really low, but take the two day and it’s 40k/day. Fingers crossed for maybe 60k thurs/fri?

They already settled.

I have been wondering. If they've been able to lure back some of their big stars, wouldn't Nelson Cruz be a target?

OTOH for AMC they completed their secondary, so at the very least they were able to get some capital.

I think sox aren't so wrong with their approach they just need to make sure to have depth in SP that can actually pitch 5 IP even if its a 4 ER game. I'm starting to feel like of offense, starting pitching, bullpen, and defense, you can have the most slack with defense and be good (see dodgers, nationals), then next would be starting pitching. But having excellent bullpen+offense seems to be where the top teams are ending up last several years. Then you have teams with one exceptional thing, like the Nats starting pitching being able to pull forward its lackluster bullpen and defense. But Reds with just great starting pitching? Was able to pull into an expanded playoff field.

I wouldn't be that surprised, you don't think they are trying for odorizzi or tanaka?

uh yeah its at 21 premarket.

I guess we'll need Vaughn to go the TA route and try at catcher, otherwise he's going to struggle for playing time.

cubs are definitely still contenders in that division.

We'll know more mid season. A lot of interesting guys are 18-19 and we haven't seen in over a year.

Salaries in nov/dec seemed to have a 20% haircut. Now? Seems like there is some more optimism with vaccines and fans in park no

They did it to hurt me. No other reason.

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Whoa whoa whoa he was fifth pick of the SECOND round. He was bad. But we don’t have to go back that far. The games where I had to watch MCW and jerian grant play. Woof

We had a confused face emoji and some posters were legit ready to throw down over them.

dear god why would you read about wsb and then advertise your put

You should now see an "options" dropdown to hide individual posts.

no "hide" either?

so i'm guessing that's a no

@ron883 can you post in here and tell me if you can delete or hide it.