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Well, as the article makes clear, the white sox are not going to sign bauer or Springer because their total contract value. Full stop. I actually do like Joc, but the takeaway for me and others isn't "haha we thought springer was an option now we learned he isn't" it's that the reason he isn't is because the white sox will not sign a top free agent. And no, Grandal and a 4 for 72 are not much more than a normal signing for most teams. Can the white sox still have a good free agency? I hope so, but they have to cobble it together from a tier of players they have been absolutely awful at scouting as seen by last years Gio Gonzalez and Edwin Encarnacion (and cishek).

The report is not "Springer isn't a fit for sox because his own internal wants" which is YOUR argument, Passan's is laughing off that the sox would try to sign a high ticket free agent. I get you try to mind meld to what is possible to the sox as you learn what they want, but there's no reason for us, who don't work for the team, to constantly live in their limited mindset as the correct choice. As many have said, if the white sox want to be the As or the Rays, then go be the As or Rays. But they think they aren't, so prove it.

oh god, cry me a river. Money is cheap as hell right now and there is greater clarity of things recovering, 2022 should be back to normal. Every other league is handling this fine but the mlb owners are going to lose their shirts? GMAFB.

The sox don't do well under stealth mode, they just don't sign high profile players that reporters cover. The stealth mode stuff may have been a thing with KW trades, but hasn't been a thing for years and years.

It depends what "never made any sense to the sox" means. If it means "unlikely that sox would sign them", of course. But obviously it should make sense to sign a very good player that is available. Trying to nail the perfect roster balance is a fools errand, take the very best players you can get. Every year a teams win the world series and teaches us something different. 2015: Sequencing! Need contact and defense! 2016: Power! Slam dingers and play defense! 2017: Oh it's between the two! Get players that with low k totals and power 2018: Have Mookie Betts 2019: Have Rendon 2020: Have Mookie Betts If sox win, it will be some weird trope about aggressive hitters or some shit. But you just put talented players together, not try and get the optimal rotisserie roster.

He is but at least with lastella you can find him playing time. He's not zobrist talented...but we don't have a lot of depth if a moncada injury happens, and lastella would be great depth.

Don't care if it's new. Nobody should.

So in Rosenthal today he says the Phils were absolutely listening to deals for Wheeler, but may not have progressed to point of bringing it upward. Obviously middleton shut it down spectacularly. Good luck hiring a pres, should probably just assume McPhail/that acting GM may be what phils roll with. To add to this, what the heck is going on with GMs this year? Cohen indicated they've struggled to get meetings with their targets. The new GMs? 2 are from the MLB office. AZ getting an ATL guy is the only other I can think of. Are teams shutting down meetings for their guys while shedding a lot of their ops roles? Seems pretty ridiculous.

Last year Hahn said they were struggling to get a good lotto ticket pitcher because our rotation looked so overfilled, and to that end I just don't think Brantley would walk into a situation like that. He can probably find a multi-year deal. If we want to do the DH/backup thing, we should go after lastella and see if he'd bite.

The failure is artificially limiting what your team is capable of to shame the other owners into not giving out contracts the owner thinks are unseemly.

Maybe the worst thing to happen to the white sox this offseason may not even be LaRussa but Steve Cohen getting his sale for the Mets. JR knew he had to batten down the hatches and let labor know whose boss, down to hiring a manager that will yell at them and tell them their place.

Something important for us to remember despite Hahns overtures is the white Sox are still very much the white Sox. The great news is there is still a lot of ways to make this team great next year as it’s foundation is incredibly strong.

As much as you guys like to act like the best writers are part of some spy network sending codes to be deciphered in the media, Jimmy isn’t sending subtweets to fans by writing about a likely player.

Especially when it was really just an incredible sept/oct

Here are some miracles that need to happen: - bears need to lose out (this is a miracle just because they always win bs games that don’t matter) - WAS needs to win NFC E - Hurts needs to keep looking promising - Falcons need to keep winning - San Fran needs to win - Panthers need to win 2 QBs are going 1-2. This puts bears in probable range for the best of the rest QBs if they like them (Whether QB3 is Wilson, Fields, or by some chance the small school guy or Jones)

I don’t think JBJ gets more than $10 mill but he does have random offensive upside years. But his value would be a pretty phenomenal outfield defense and I do think that would be a big help.

So do we think anything will happen at all this week league wide?

You know, I’ve started to come around to the idea that owners care way more about the total contract number than makes sense to us.

You take what the draft gives you.

The lions are bad with a new head coach mid season and the bears lost to them. Theyve lost 6 straight. They have no QB, little offensive talent and an underperforming front four in defense where all their money is. Of course it isn’t one guy.

They just have to lose out. I really like Zach wilson

I think part of this pushback is if you are interviewing for the baseball ops job you’d see this and think you’d be forced into a decision. That said, clearly this isn’t getting resolved soon. More likely the deals that have been rehashed as nauseum.

And this is why New York and California teams never get free agents and Texas and Florida teams get every free agent

That is what it’s like when you are going to make 24 million a year in one place and 25 million in another.

You are talking 7 million dollars over the course of a 5 year 118 million contract. In terms of how it affects his life, it is no different than my example. That’s why percentage terms adds more clarity.