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Of most wins to Sox probably Bellinger and Cole. Best for control, I’d take Buehler/Soto. Most fun for me would probably be Chapman and Ohtani

I agree with caulfield original take. I think there was a good core in these trilogies of Rey and Kylo. But the editing is a mess. The trilogies were utterly tanked by a completely uninteresting supporting cast. Rather that an incoherent, ever expanding set of story lines, it was constantly in search of new characters to instantly give their back stories to try and make FIN and Oscar Isaac guy interesting but it just always felt like a waste of time. People love chewie. We don’t need to know his motivations or back story. He’s cranky and loyal. They established that with like 25 seconds of screen focus. They spent a bunch of time on Fins back story and how he was taken but I’m not even sure he particularly cared and was driven by wanting to find home. They could have done that in like 4 lines of dialogue instead of their choice with 500. Basically the harder they tried to give characters depth the harder it failed because it wasn’t relevant to the plot.

IM THE SPY!

I still feel like it’s more likely that he stays but CLE being fairly public about all of this makes me think the owners too-public stance on not planning to re-sign him made it toxic enough that they are going to take the larger return on the extra year of control on him. Wild all these competitive teams discussing trading impt contributors with two years left. But I guess we should hope they trade him and bungle the return.

Right, and I'd imagine the answer is he'd net more but if the rockies just wanted to shove off salary there are less painful ways to do it.

I struggle with these. Arenado is tremendous...he's also receiving close to market value. That makes him not sale. You are paying for his rights, but aren't getting much surplus. That's real. But haven't seen one of these in practice for a while. He'd get back prospects but not sure he gets the level we think.

I actually didn't know Gio even pitched as much as he did last year and that he did it well.

This is a fun trade rumor at least.

Awesome, that was great. Verducci is so good too, what a find.

because he just almost missed a year and came back as a shell of himself. One of the biggest risks left.

The article was pretty good. It pointed out that while the reasons for not liking keuchel was well known, he ranks at the top of the list for command for pitchers in the last three years, and the fact that he can locate his sinker and fastball in the same spots is why his effectiveness could be counted on. An interesting pitcher was also on that list - Alex Wood. I wouldn't get too hung up on his amount...I'm sure he's just compensating for those articles constantly being on the under for FA prices this year.

I’m actually with caulfield here. Happ seems more likely than Price to me and has the same logic. Not personally a fan, but I’d also say he has more likelihood of producing next year than most of the garbage on the FA market.

When was the last time a trade was telegraphed this long before executing? I’m not wasting any energy on this. It was bogus from the jump.

I’m enjoying Heyman just tweeting about players that won’t get traded for the past four hours.

Also he very much would receive a report from boston and run with it despite it being so obscenely one-sided for them because he would only consider boston.

A is more likely

definitely would be intrigued by Walker/Salazar, but sox really need at least one guy who could be expected to fill innings. That is Keuchel or Nova, frankly. Wood could be great but I'm not sure money isn't better spent on availability at this point

Probably need a considerable buyout for that to be attractive.

I really don't know, it would depend how confident they are in someone else. I suppose the one benefit is if he can't pitch he likely can't play and you are getting at least 70% of that deal on insurance, and we don't have lux tax concerns.

I think the team that goes 4 years for Ryu probably gets him...and that's a big decision.

It's like clockwork. This was truly Boylen's worst game however.

Right. If Miley signs three weeks ago we don't blink an eye, but at this point the available options require sox execute perfectly when they are going against multiple teams for the remaining acceptable guys.

Yikes, you are going to be upset when you look up the WAR of the players you listed.

Nova was a much, much better pitcher than Covey or Fulmer last year, but you’d rather have watched some of the worst pitchers in baseball make up Novas 190 IP last year because you get that much satisfaction out of the white Sox having another 8 million in their pockets?

Well to be fair he’s not saying what teams are interested he’s saying what teams need starters.