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Actually now reading the article that does make me nervous.

I think you are off on the meet his asking price, it was he needed to provide a formal offer for a sit down. They weren't just doing meet and greets this late in process.

It needs a talent pipeline too. Indianapolis and Rochester are the only ones that would be able to provide that drawing from chicago, u of i engineering, umich engineering.

My skepticism has 100% to do with being able to afford him. While I did not think we could outbid the phillies head to head for one guy, I do think we could easily outbid the padres.

I would do that every day.

Ah, I thought he switched because he was trying to hit 500 hr

good way of putting it.

For FA in general, has there been a free agent that has regretted jumping the market for a deal?

Yeah I thought it was good news. I really have a hard time believing that there are other teams that will offer high value, long term offers other than the white sox and phillies. It's also why I just can't see waiting changing improving the situation for either player and hope it wraps up by mid week next week at latest.

This may be a fan concern, this is not a Reinsdorf concern. After all, he could say " you said you wanted this, bryce harper just signed for x, our offer is much more in line"

Sure, this is more charitable. But at the very least, he will not be actively subverting another teams negotiations to ensure they pay more

This, and especially so for our owner.

Jerry Reinsdorf's grand dream isn't signing both harper and machado, it would be signing on of either and orchestrating a market that underpaid the top players and kept labor prices in check. That's better than a world series.

I disagree. I think the clearly negative player sentiment right now is due to the sox and phillies both know they can come away with one, and are in a prisoners dilemma game except they are both avoiding bidding up each other so they can get the players at the best possible prices.

Honestly this sounds every bit as crazy as Charles the Cat's unwavering confidence the cubs are about to sign harper and shed heyward

I will take what we can get from him now.

It's kind of amazing Hriniak and thomas isn't it? You had this hulk of a man that hit the crap out of the ball and he had him try to slap line drives down the middle. I wonder what would have happened to thomas in today's environment with more emphasis on pulling the ball, and if it may have played too much to his strengths and made him more one dimensional (ala 02-05 thomas)

Damn I thought the yanks were definitely about to build a *looks down* one billion dollar outfield

Sorry, too much effort to pay attention to.

holy smokes kingery was bad last year.

I think with the schools and academies now available to prospects in the offseason, if they see substantial improvement it's a lot more interesting than just body. If it was just fulmer lost 15 lbs this wouldn't be a big deal.

https://sports.yahoo.com/carson-fulmer-turned-one-baseballs-top-data-driven-companies-reclaim-career-140030895.html

So basically today is thursday.

I know the white sox aren't a global sensation, and part of this is due to boring teams, but the padres have been where players go to be forgotten.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/picks-to-click-who-we-expect-to-make-the-2020-top-100/ Burger makes bounce back candidate possibility. None of the remaining outfielders mentioned. All these relievers they've invested in, not mentioned. This org needs more young talent.