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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.

Right, teams are often not looking to fill a position at all costs where they'll go down a list. If your player has interest from more than two teams, strike while the iron is hot and get signed, don't wait.

I am pro player, but I'm kind of annoyed at the comments about how manny and bryce should have jobs. Making that case for the 100 free agents as a whole? Fair. The pretty decent list of good mlb players signing minor league contracts? Totally fair. But it's not like Bryce and Manny haven't been offered jobs. While I don't think Bryce or Manny are losing any money by waiting and thus keep waiting, I think any player like Moustakas who thought they would have more leverage when machado signs was sorely mistaken. For the mid-level player, I'm not seeing it as clear at all that waiting has benefited them vs taking the first few offers.

Flacco to the Broncos. Elway is a disaster evaluating QBs. I hope Vic succeeds but yikes. May as well trade for Eli.

My guess is they are thinking that Pads have made latest push publicly so are probably most likely. I think that it's clear their finances cannot support Machado with Myers and Hosmer on the books and am not worried.

I think this is going to end up being a textbook example of mental accounting and the kind of stuff you saw expressed in books like Nudge and other behavioral economics. Economists would expect people to be rational try and pay as close to their accurate amount of taxes as possible because they could use that money for things they like or that they could get a bigger return on (getting even a negative return when including inflation from when the money is held by gov't). Instead people liked getting a set of money in bulk at the end of the year to pay of credit cards, loans or even then saving. This is mental accounting. They could have used that money all year to do the same and had access to it, instead they preferred to treat it as separate and get it in bulk at the end of the year. When this corrected itself people are upset. This is where things like opt-ins instead of opt-outs get their big play in places like 401k and other savings mechanisms. Rather than fight against it and claim its irrational, accommodating it to assist them. While saving inefficiently like this isn't optimal, it's better than not saving at all which may have occurred as people were confused what the change in tax law meant for them.