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Seems like the hints are that pagano will be the sacrificial lamb.

Just a text book case of saying nothing

They should try and get the best players they can period. Sox disadvantage is a lot of their “expendable” guys have positional limitations.

Is he a long term 2b

Excellent follow up courtesy of @Sleepy Harolds twitter

Wild charts holy smokes That pitch distribution chart

it took so long to sign I was just happy it was completed but again... Big series... Keuchel goes only 5 but gives up 3. Starts the next inning with baserunners. We throw Heuer, Crochet, Bummer, Hendriks. OPTTHTHTPH

This is why Boston fans exist.

either way honestly.

Man my brain is fried. took me forever to remember who Gonzalez was

So I have white sox at 126.4M after Hendricks ($11m )

Bradley and Rosenthal too

Probably depends on if he's worse but we all still feel he's good or if he's worse but still good yet we all hate him for losing an important game.

Depends, that year is when a lot of our extensions pump up. And we are still paying Konerko deferred money and we usually don't even count it since it's a million a year. Could be attractive if he's just a set-up guy.

yeah I mean that's technically more accurate but less funny.

lol, was just thinking about when Ryan McGuffey tweeted that he'd rather have hendriks for 3 years 50 million than 4 years 50 million (paraphrasing) and how that, in a way, is what is happening.

I think of it like we had to pay to keep it a strength.

La Stella could not play SS. We'd be in Beckham/Leury territory assuming no Madrigal. And realistically it's Leury.

Jose Ruiz ruined like 5 games I saw in person where he came in for an inning and it would last 30 minutes and he'd give up 4 home runs. I would see these numbers that implied he had innings where he didn't implode but I'm not sure I ever saw one.

This is the value. But I do think it's ok to talk about the fact that colome was perfect last year. I just had my doubts he would be able to repeat it moving forward because he had to do a lot to get that shoulder ready and I think he is already straddling a line. I have a lot of respect for what Colome did because it doesn't get much better results wise, and the fact that I hated getting him, but moving forward Hendriks provides a more likely stable backend.

usually gets smoothed out over length of deal on lux tax.

I don't think people understand how much closers make in arbitration. For instance, next year Hendriks will make $11 million, as you said, just a 500k increase. Mark Melancon got 4 for 62 in 2017 as a soon to be 32 year old reliever. He was great prior, but this deal is certainly in line with the 20% or so haircut we are seeing on deals this offseason.

They have 10 years to pay it off, so 1.5 million/yr. Not dissimilar to their recurring Paulie cost.

Best to blow past them though and deal with it later.

I'm happy the sox found a way to hit the target of the player/agent. You can tell the leaks of the completion came from agent, as all were emphasizing the guaranteed money. Good for sox/hahn.