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Lots of media to teams recently. Jeff Sullivan (fangraphs) -> Rays as an analyst Jessica Mendoza (espn) -> Mets as a front office position yet still retaining sunday night baseball duties which is kinda weird.

Yeah...it's hard to tell because JRs gut instincts are always to self-police contracts to players that will not be used to increase labor leverage. Just reading the rundowns of the harper signing from the philly perspective, they did make it seem like they prioritized machado and then harper opened up around when we all heard, mid january or whenever. So there are things out there that make it seem like it was mostly JR self policing. But it just wouldn't surprise me if the phillies owner and JR shared their top-line numbers for both players, and the sox was higher than phills for machado and theirs for harper was higher than sox, and they agreed not to bid against eachother just to bid up the price when they know the other team will go higher. There you have the phil rogers ...intel? insight? tweet that the sox don't feel they will get harper and don't want to just bid up the price against phils when they won't get him. But reading the athletic rundown from the phils perspective. They were offering 330 million. They weren't going over. They preferred that be as long a contract as possible, and eventually agreed to 13 years. So if the sox had offered 10 for 330 I think they get him. If they offer 12 for 335 I think they get him. But they didn't because apparently internally, if we believe kenny williams, they valued harper at below machado, who they tried to hardball and lost.

Its hard to tell with them. We thought they'd be all over rutherford in 16 and drafted collins. But 17 sounds like the one draft that it fell to them in the least opportune way. They had smoke around Adell and I think they would have taken him, but they had way more smoke around Jeren Kendell and they took burger. That draft though was riddled with unathletic college hitters with good power and k : bb rates, which all fit burger.

Right, you can look at who he has been traded for to date. The guy is what he is, pretty decent reliever getting paid market rate to be so. If he was making 1 million he'd be really nice to have, at 7 mill this year and probably 8 next year, it's not going to get you more than some 16-30 prospect on a teams list.

They have seemed open to selling comp picks though, so I really hope they keep their ears open for that.

k. If you think you are operating in hindsight, go ahead.

If Bears splurge on a player I could see it being justin houston, who has gotten paid and may want more "fit" at end of his career, and it's a big draft class for edge. Or he'll get paid like 20 mill by the colts. edit: originally said sox not bears.

That was mostly two years ago but he survived birmingham which is a tough park for him, as seen by only a .373 slugging percentage at home. But he did a decent job getting on base and I'm a fan.

at this point with his struggles moncadas baseline is league average hitter and 2 war player. If he never improves this is his production. Thats one player in a package of 4 and 2 others are still promising.

Mendick and Seby producing this year would be nice indicators of player development. I think for the elite players its not necessarily player dev working as much as luck and scouting philosophy. But a good player dev squad should squeeze the most value from every player, so you get a solid stable of people like this. Mendicks power improves, his numbers are never good enough that you believe, not since W-S. But I don't know, if you get a tyler saladino level player from him that's really nice!

I get why, but this seems like a gift if you are the Jags, but obviously not if you give up the #7 pick.

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I don't really agree, Rosen was put in by far the worst situation of any QB last year and he had some really nice moments. Has a lot in common with goff/trubisky there. I think he's good.

Adolfo 0-2 2ks.

Could Bleday be why hahn was at the vandy game?

Randall Delgado not really making the case to be the swingman.

I agree, but the overall industry consensus being as apprehensive as the internet does make me question it. Though, I think 3 for 60 is the fulcrum for me. Below that and you've accounted for risk well, at it and its meh, above it and its going to be tough to move if it goes south. 3/54 gives him slightly over his QO with 3 years of security. The draft pick sucks though.

And brendan rodgers is still a top 10-20 prospect, so he holds a lot of value, I'd argue pretty confidently more than pete alonso.

It's become a self fulfilling prophecy, they were really 0-2 in last 20 years. You could take many years of college pitching and say we are 0-2 in many of those samples. So then they are hoping the limited selection of high schoolers in later rounds panned out to prove it, which is also a crap shoot. If you look at other teams, they'll fail on some hs picks. They'll succeed on several too. This isn't a pro white sox development take, moreso that we don't really know how good or bad they are because they don't really try. I mean, if they had drafted corey seager would corey seager suck? Man hopefully not.

So this Murray to the Cards thing is real?

That's fine but he should be playing OF majority of time because our OF is terrible, instead they've pushed him to be primarily an IF reserve and last year it largely seemed to be because of nicky/davidson...I don't know, don't see the necessity this year.

Pads acquired 13 mill of chase headley for a pretty middle of the road guy in bryan mitchell that was from what I remember basically a 40 man guy anyway

Interesting idea, still have figured out true price of "buying" a prospect this way, but would be a fan of it regardless. I really would like sox to try and get a comp pick this year and use of their salary would be best way to do it...except the only competitive teams in the as/rays have been very efficient. The twins could be the team to look at, but we have little to offer them. The other thing to keep in mind is assisting the nats in reducing their tax penalty may make it easier to re-sign Rendon. This is of course laughable that the sox would pay for a good player, but should be included in the assisting of the nats.

They started it last year though. Maybe it was to keep him healthy though.

Completely agree. Big difference with them is they are usually athletically superior (most will go to majors instead of college), and with the great ones you see them rise up levels and improve instead of just maintain due to their athleticism getting unlocked as more and more of their baseball instincts develop, while our college prospects just come in and you just hope they can be 60% of what they were in college.