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They clearly intend to regardless. The Bauer trade signaled that.

I was wondering where the reds would come into play

Unfortunately Hahn will not respond with anything interesting and you don’t get follow ups. He’ll just defend Paddy. I ask about intl every year

People aren’t upset that Castillo was gone, but that they traded away pool money to avoid paying 500k

They could have done that without this.

To be so sure there are not players worth signing, you’d have to feel like you have the most well tuned latam operation in baseball. The fact that it’s a crap shoot should make them even less confident in their MO of signing small classes and trading for old bullpen relievers. This is a strategy issue, so it’s Hahns fault, but he’ll blame Paddy.

It ain’t over til it’s over fellas

This is correct, and turned the opportunity to spend $250k into actual $500k.

We should add up how much we saved in international and see if it matches the overage in the amateur draft

Sox saved 500k. Cole is ours.

It is truly funny. Beautiful financial engineering.

You'd probably be looking at converting current bullpen pieces for nimmo (bummer)

Yeah, playoffs where you can show off as a multi-inning reliever/stopper like Hader certainly are getting paid, in part because they so rarely get to show that off in the regular season.

Why is that? Because the luxury tax escalates for consecutive seasons. If they spent last year, they would have been less able to this year - a year where a number of contracts began to expire, and then ellsbury expires next year. They are in a much more manageable position to dip in a few years even with another monster contract.

Exactly. I love this cute putting our heads in the sand and screaming that the market will work in Sox favor but the Yankees dipped under the luxury tax so that they could jump back over it with fewer penalties. And they’ll keep doing that dance.

Yet Corbin was bid up to $140 million. Corbin has he been in this class would be considered close to wheeler, and there are many more bidders.

This push of the second tier guys into the first tier contract territory was what I worried about. I’d go harder after tier 1. Lots of big contract pitchers in the World Series, many of them moved after their big contract. Good pitchers are a better investment then Steve stone indicates.

Kershaw, Jensen

Happy for nats. Goes to show you don’t need some aggressively analytical front office to win a WS still, but do need super talented and competent decision makers.

I did not hear this. Thought it was all about how DD did not set them up for future.

I just want to point out that OP asked who we would prefer absent worrying about cost or feasibility.

Easily Cole, but glad Strasburg got to remind everyone how good he is when he can play.

Worse - setting up the sox in position so that they can claim grievance against system in order to rally owners to a draft.

That’s ridiculous. The guy has been available for three straight offseason, and traded once, and you think he’ll be cheap this year, yet we need to act like this is rare? the team that signed him, did so for 2b, yet nobody thought that he could?