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So typical.

If you are a top ten prep pitcher who has the team discover something and give a much lower amount, do you just take it at this point? Those pitchers have been doing pretty bad recently in follow up year

Yeah that would be incredible

This happened to TA didn't it?

Bring it up there?

lol

It's pretty awesome when anyone whose parents were cops and teachers grows up to become a many-millionaire.

Right but that would have been true had he not signed the contract. The teams have a lot of leverage in these deals in that the next six years do not have guaranteed money if the player is terrible. Now Jimenez gets guaranteed money regardless of how good he is. He would very likely be good! But he could also get injured and never be what we thought, and now the dude gets a great life for his family and I'm happy for him.

well apparently it doesn't matter and I was wrong, but if it realistically got you years 8/9 on options rather than 7/8 that's an interesting gamble for 3 weeks. But I am glad I get a much better outfield of Eloy/LEURYGOATCIA/danny palka than whatever the hell was going to be in left field for 3 weeks

Thanks.

Also if they give him a signing bonus that gets spread out evenly, those 4/5/6 years could be very nice.

Now if part of this is Eloy being cool with still being called up 4/26, then you have the makings of a very good deal.

I mean, it's not the Q/Sale crazy win for the sox but it will make the player happy, creates cost certainty through 6 years for hopefully a game changing prospect, and the 7 and 8 years are not team guaranteed so I like it.

Telling people they shouldn't care about topics they care about is pretty patronizing. Especially in a thread that is about an interview with the GM where he discusses those topics. That's why you are getting the response you are.

I am pleased and am happy that the dollar amount makes more sense. 100 mill made absolutely no sense.

Right but that seems to be a better draft set-up for the dbacks/royals than the white sox.

I don't know, but I find it tedious when people can't object to the reasoning that informs the boards or posters pessimistic conclusions, just that they shouldn't have pessimistic conclusions at all because it makes them sad. There's been a lot of injuries. Too sad to talk about? Guys stop talking about it. Why be a fan if you are going to talk about what the team is doing? Let's just focus on how the team can make me feel positive.

Even the college picks and high school picks after witt/abrams I kinda like. The removal of a "gritty" college ace has made the options all look nice to me, however, I should temper my enthusiasm as even though the profiles are all a bunch of player types I like, I have seen a lot of comments that this isn't a particularly brilliant top of the draft.

I, too, want everyone to discuss only the things I like and not discuss the things I don't like.

Man their payroll is worse than I realized. You have to imagine they will be able to offload some of Price's deal after this year, and maybe they hope that JD martinez opts out at this point. Yeesh. edit: obviously they won a world series so this isn't heartbreaking but when looking specifically at how they keep their core it does look difficult.

The white sox have very few bats that profile as elite, so vaughn fits well into the system despite his limitations. "Adolph" is just entering AA and Burger has played one underwhelming half-season and been tore his achilles twice. That's pretty far from being "in the wings".

I think the thing that sucks for baltimore is maybe they do cut a deal with witt, you are going against the diamondbacks hoard of picks in that comp/round 2 zone. This also sucks for sox.

Draft vontae mack.

But wasn't that when the first slot was a gigantic amount that allowed you to change your draft with savings after? It's much more marginal now.