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Exactly.

That's a pretty uncharitable reading.

I wouldn't be surprised if nobody has made a "formal" offer for harper yet.

I at least think they have showed meaningful shifts in each years that show they too don't have a handle on things. 2016 was a bunch of players with good walk rates/good power, but higher K rates 2017 was a frick load full of good walk rates and good k rates, but often limited athletes (gonzalez could of course save the whole draft). 2018 showed more of a balance, more versatile athletes and pitchers with some more interesting stuff. But my personal template for all of these years should have been top college bat, high school player, top college player left, save on money, chance on high schooler, whatevers left... I don't like the Walker, sheets, burdi picks because they were primed to spend a little more to get some top high school talent but instead paid sometimes overslot for college juniors. I'll never really understand why the sox needed to go so overslot for a college junior 1b in the second round. What leverage did he have? That said, 2018 was more encouraging to me from a player type perspective, but the 2017 draft (Which I found interesting at the time) just showed the limits of "safer" college production.

Great post Y2Jimmy, This is well said "Players who develop at a slower pace or incur a setback of any variety don't have youth on their side in the same fashion that a high school prospect would. Luckily for the Chicago White Sox though, landing players on top prospect lists at various publications isn't the organizational goal of the draft. It is to supply the organization with enough premium talent to compile a critical mass that will be used as currency in addition to filling holes in Chicago." Sox have avoided HS and really never went for it with a big latam class. Starting to wonder if it's scout preference or acknowledgment of difficulty the org has in developing young, raw talent. Would really like to see more from the pitching side from Hostetlers drafts.

I actually never thought they would be that close in total dollars and wouldn't be surprised if Bryce got 350 where Manny only got 250

But that’s where I read “breaking news” and see it differently. It’s often not about saying 30 minutes before a reporter that a deal is done. It’s often just letting people know what Sox are working on and that something is close enough to mention. A lot of people here want that info, but it often does fall through before execution.

I think what you need to understand is things can be true but also not come to fruition. The Sox may very well have been very close on a Pederson deal, and then it falls through. If the deal never occurs does that mean all the info in the run up is bad? No, deals fall through all the time and people like we are talking about give us info from earlier stages than a reporter like rosenthal would.

Would be pretty easy to verify if #Vegas has done that.

Did something happen to baseball man!?

And they aren't idiots. They'll have a show dedicated to "what would it look like if harper and machado signed" and then at the end they'll ask everyone if they think it could happen and they'll all say "not a chance". I think at the GM meetings after a show dedicated to machado only Garfein predicted he'd go to sox and that was just because he felt he had to. (things have obviously progressed since then).

I still think if they clean house, get the bad reputation out, get a progressive, charismatic guy to lead things it can turn around massively. But will miss out on next few superstar plays.

Garfein? He's just a positive sox personality. Sox have lost a ton of beat reporters recently and his team puts out a lot of great content. But, it's not serious analysis of the sox, it's access and a lot of "wouldn't it be cool? Won't it be cool?". I think it's great but, you can't do apples to apples comparisons with him and people like DST or Fegan

The article update itself basically says it will most likely just be the first gameplay trailer

Whhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

It’s amazing how the white Sox aren’t even mentioned much as competition.

Is this the part where we start eating our own dead in camp for nourishment?

Eh, they have much more prospect depth than when the white sox did that.

Yeah I debated starting a new one but this news isn't that "real" it's just some heating up compared to what used to be there.

That of course would be interesting, but something that hurts so much more than last year is that Markannen looks worse, Dunn looks worse, and Lavine is showing that while a prolific scorer, has some tendencies that make him more like a nice number 4 option not a number 2.

One thing I kinda respect about Boras' game is he doesn't let any team feel like the favorite.

I agree with that, but I'm sure they figure someone could want to jump the line and maybe make the bidding war that hasn't happened. But, I agree, at this point I think Manny's number is what it will be in a few weeks, but they are going to let it play out.

Not great for die-hard fans, but honestly could see this doing pretty well for sox overall. Already had some friends (that are not sox fans) text interest in going (at this point I am the only sox fan that anyone knows apparently)

Does anyone think Manny or Bryce is losing money each day they wait? My answer is no. That calculation changes as ST comes into play. As long as that's the case, I'm not shocked the game of chicken continues. That said, there will be a personal part of this where at some point they may want to get certainty on housing. But either city will not be their permanent residence, and with the money they have they'll have plenty of nice, furnished options to choose from even in a pinch. If this goes on another 2-3 weeks I'm not shocked.

"for an extra $500, we'll make you a cover with Bryce in whatever uniform you request!"