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At some point in the next couple days, manny's camp will come to the sox with a suddenly lower demand, they will finish out the details and it will be done. I really doubt they are even negotiating now but I do doubt that the padres are sitting on top of the white sox offer (they haven't even freakin met him yet)

I think we could too but as I think about what's necessary to build the team out for fun I try to take a conservative number. I do think it again re enforces how valuable it would be to sign manny now. edit: to too

That's true and a decent point for locking in a salary like harper and machado in today's dollars. This won't make any sense, but its easier for me to translate this years top salary along with what I would anticipate arb 2 and 3 numbers of our prospects and expected contract amounts for our players in today's dollars to better approximate what roster makejup will be available in 2022 than trying to guess the inflated player values of 2022/3 dollars.

With inflation (i'm pretty sure i'll get this wrong) I think our 2011 recent peak salary would be around 145mill, so I typically forecast a top salary of 150 mill.

I'm interested, less so in rotisserie (i'll not check past may)

Dang 73 won!? Curses!

His performance in interviews has been very good but still not someone i turn the dial to listen to, but that maybe due to mcneil for me (not a fan personally)

Rendon is basically a superstar in an arbitrators eyes, but we will have an additional 4 years of arbitration growth (and arbitrators have been increasingly pro-player).

Harrison probably a good bet for a major league deal, thanks. I'm honestly gonna be surprised if Carlos Gonzalez makes it, and Span at this point feels like when we used to sign Bourjos

I think a good illustration of this is the white sox spent $24 million this year acquiring two decent bullpen arms and a 5th starter. It adds up really quickly as you add even marginal depth.

I think this weekend is going to be quite busy. My guesses for actual mlb contracts signed of who is left: (harpchado obvs) Keuchel Kimbrel Moustakas Gio Jose Iglesias Dietrich Marwin Gonzalez adam Jones On Fence on: Gattis, Buchholz, X Cedeno, Sipp Everyone else is likely gonna grab a minor league deal, and obviously quite a few may be like melky was last year just waiting for some injuries.

It's going to be so embarrassing for Flacco to be unseated by a rookie two years in a row.

I underestimated how much more impatient I would be for this after seeing pitchers and catchers report in arizona

I place a lot of value in scouts discussion on the offensive or batting impact of prospects and their pitching motions and pitches and it's future impact. I place a lot less value in body projection and position projection.

Eminor3rd 12:39 Could you elaborate a bit more on the flaws you mentioned in Eloy Jimenez's write-up? Specifically RE: body size, injury proneness? Eric A Longenhagen 12:39 Forgive me but I think listing his entire injury history in the writeup is pretty elaborate.\\ +++ I am a fan of kiley and eric's writing and personality, but as a sox fan hoping to get insight, it has been incredibly annoying the past 3 months having them answer 10,000 words on every yankees prospect that's asked and basically only answering questions on nick madrigal, and stuff like this. But, I also worry that this reflects a negative attitude from industry toward sox prospects.

I'm just hopin we don't see anything like Rodon not pitching even though everyone else is pitching and they lie and act like it's a new schedule.

I mean there is asking rick hahn and there is asking jon jay. Jon Jay can't sign manny. The content being produced from asking jon jay manny questions isn't very good and I'd rather the players get more baseball questions soon and get me the classic spring training fluff.

It was always kinda weird to me that suddenly the dodgers were worried about redundancy. Pederson is cheap and still complemented their team. Getting him for basically rehab projects was bizarre. But la has always liked some of our mid level/low prospects more than other teams.

One thing that kinda sucks about the fangraphs guys recently is it's clear chisox system no longer has their focus or interest. They basically only pick questions on Madrigal (always the same answers), nothing else really is said. Mainly because we've had the same guys for 2 years now and nobody make a big move, just attrition all over.

Clearly the quad injury did effect it thought. Eloy is averaging like 3 injuries per year and that was basically their writeup. It sucks because it's something I don't even want to think about with him. It would be so terrible for him to be like our own AJ Pollock version. But, now he'll be in big leagues with proper nutrition available and trainers.

On the other hand there is nothing remotely interesting about answers to these questions after a dozen or so times, may as well move on.

This is a good lesson, I have alerts set up for every charge at or over $99. Not as annoying as it sounds.

People really don't need to check their 401k daily (or bank statements)

wow didn't even see Eloy at 8. I would bet $100 he has a better career than Nick Senzel.

Sucks not to see any of luis gonzalez, basabe, adolfo, walker or rutherford in a top 130 but I feel 100% confident one of them will perform as one of the top 130 prospects in game for their career.