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Got it. The sox are so scared of agents it's really quite something. They seem to take it personally when players negotiate with them after they think they've given a fair offer.

Chatwood is 12 mill, Kimbrel is 16mil. The others at that price are arb level.

I think I would still take cole and just play around with the 1 yr/10mill pool of pitchers.

@Y2Jimmy0 great questions here. Badler is so even keel in his articles and sticks to what was added rather than what wasn't, so interesting to hear him getting nailed down on how sox compare to other operations.

his contract is the least of their worries.

Said it before but the darvish contract is fine at this point and I'd be interested, but it's hard to know what cost of prospects would be.

Yeah...I thought they had brand new facilities for some reason.

Yes most deals don’t finalize for many reasons that can come up early or late. Attributing it to a leak is obviously BS because leaks happen all the time in baseball and no other GM goes around attributing it to deals falling through (because it doesn’t make sense as to how it could have been the sole cause). If one of the players had a bad medical...it would have shown up eventually.

It’s subjective...but there is also a process around it and owned within the franchise. Friedman gets outside info and overrules his own massive team below him?

And the white Sox knee the Indians traded information in this scenario...how.

The odds of him being that far off on evaluating his own players value is far more unlikely than rick Hahn blaming Sox fans for things (which he does all the time).

Andrew Friedman is one of the best GMs in the league.

I actually just don’t think that latter trade is at all likely. That is around $60 mill of salary with control issues on one and talent another. That would greatly reduce talent back.

I understood why people thought the Mets would trade Nimmo, but don’t get the rationale behind these trades. With the infusion of new cash I’m sure their plan is to keep Thor with degrom and keep adding, not trading for prospects.

Can’t wait to listen to this. Love everyone of the BA crew.

Love signing long term deals to players you’ll want to upgrade from by year 2.

It’s interesting to see the big franchises that land top players often take the tact of letting it be publicly known they value the players worth instead of undercutting it and constantly trying to make sure everyone knows they don’t want to spend too much.

And a lot of Ozuna production came in a single year he hasn’t come close to replicating offensively, and his early career WAR was fueled by defense he hasn’t come close to replicating. With Castellanos you can be much more sure to expect a wRC+ above 110. With Ozuna? He isn’t unlikely to hit it, but he’s also not unlikely to have just an average year offensively. He really isn’t that different than when we signed Melky.

I don’t think that’s totally true, the morning show before and after Hahn was heavily pushing it too (though not that they were about to sign him)

It wouldn’t.

I wouldn’t pay for Ozuna, but if I did not sure why I’d give him much more than AJ pollock made last offseason.

There are not 5 teams looking to sign Marcel Ozuna.

Do you think we heard Wheeler was choosing the Phillies only after he did a physical and physically signed?

But in neither of those cases did the player ever indicate they had accepted their offer. This is indicating he would have verbally told them he’s signing. I mean phones exist, it seems unlikely this would require a delay.

He is quite perfectly my least favorite FA signing they could have made. Perhaps the most white Sox use of resources I could imagine. A caliber of player available every offseason, with a QO attached, that they are signing as a long term player. It’s a 2015 special.