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I mean, obviously they've been trying. But hopefully not through collusionary means, the sox and phillies have presented themselves as serious but also willing to beat bids. So teams know they dont just have to match the sox bid, they have to beat it multiple times. So there have been mystery teams but they come in and never seem to accelerate, nobody has come in with a higher bid. That means there are two teams.

this title is cruel. But I hope you will all join me in realizing time itself sucks. It passes forward and sometimes faster than you'd like and other times slower. And also death is always present. Really tough stuff!

I think there is info in that the market for these two players really is two teams. There has been a lot of buzz trying to get around that fact, begging rich teams to get in play, saying they should sign shorter deals, but it appears both teams have positioned themselves at bids high enough to prevent others from making a run while low enough it hasnt resolved. If that offer gets them, I'll give hahn a standing O. But if I was in the seat and had backing of ownership, I'd have positioned themselves higher publicly on machado to truly make a short term deal outlandish.

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Totally agree. I know I'm a broken record on this front, but the rules of int'l signings were bent to a team like the white sox's favor in the last CBA. This is the first year of it out of the penalty box, it would be so disheartening if we end up with 6-7 guys, none in the top 30, and did not spend our allotted amount.

If the mlb created a senior tour like the PGA that just included jeter, adam jones and david ross playing softball Bob would leave his job to cover it for free.

Thanks! March.

Gonna edit and assume the son of God wasn't on the podcast.

The DH I see as more likely than we think because I think it is most pro Player, I don’t see why AL teams would be against and several NL teams want to see it (cubs, Mets). Overall this is interesting.

Would they though? Haven’t loogies become less common? My thought was it may lose relief pitchers jobs by making it more likely teams are back to 12 pitchers as getting an additional bench bat you could “stack” against a reliever would be more advantageous.

Jerry West is incredible

I will be. This is no different than the peter bourjas or Ryan raburn signings the last few years.

There was some fangraphs article that while HS RHP in the top ten have had a horrible hit rate, they tend to have great value in the 1st round supplemental and high 2nd round.

Also Manny actually banking on meaningful changes to FA that benefit him so much that he's willing to give up money just to try again at age 29 is unlikely IMO. Say the players get guaranteed revenue from league, that may benefit players as a whole but not necessarily top players, they may actually make less while others make more. Making free agency more expensive may make even less teams try at it. Realistic ways to help players includes lowering the length of team control, that again would not help manny machado's market, it would hurt it. It is very unlikely he will personally benefit in the next CBA.

Feb 19th is the day that i've aligned myself to since soxfest ended, I cant tell you how nauseating feb 20th and beyond will be if no signing ha

I would rather get the celtics deal that can be available after the season. Pels should not be held hostage here.

Bravo to the pels for finally being a franchise that doesn't gift the lakers just because a player asks out.

I would be surprised if there is a clean opt-out in manny or bryce's deals.

Basically my guess is baltimore signs him then he fails a physical and then the sox sign him on july 2.

I was just thinking this. Obviously some stuff has happened this offseason, the seattle offloading and mets acquisitions, but all of the actual exciting things have just been a slow crawl of just neverending false starts. This was in fact how the Q saga went except the sox never committed to trading him before the best deal and obviously that worked out. So you never know.

lol I forgot they hired Darrell Bevell.

gonna be weird having no real draft stuff to look forward to.

On the other hand he's also described as noticeably bigger, so that angle is still there! But while people like Y2Jimmy say Sheets hits bombs in batting practice, have never heard his power even translated to that setting. So if he's getting higher marks there, even if it doesn't translate into game power immediately, that will be improvement.

I know "best shape of their lives" stories and beckham and all, but Gets gave some very specific info on Rutherford and Fulmer changes that could be easy to verify in spring so I'm looking forward to it.

I love Curtis Granderson, glad he found a spot.