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I could see boras plants. He likes to deal with owners and stoke with their emotional desire to make big splashes. This plays with fan expectation. OR It's a real leak from excited owner or whatever to that group.

Depends on their pitching staying healthy, I could see it being close. I could see a bunch of braves falling slightly back from last year. Tough division though.

Philly really should sign Kimbrel though if they are up on this stupid money thing.

Heyman knows not tweeting even nonsense about these two is leaving retweets on the table.

Okay. Glad that's over.

I was pleased with Lisle addition, but overall after last year I would have liked/expected some outside additions from proven player development staffs. There isn't anyone I'd single out, and maybe this internal development works, but I'd like some more proven voices.

324 with 17 posts now that I have that info.

Aw man, did that freakin pump me up.

OTOH, maybe JR being involved and seeing the actual issues will communicate more effectively to him what's needed to sign.

I think this is really on the nose. JR meets at initial meeting, lets team bang it out, keeping close but never overcommitting, when market has cleared taking over.

Ugh, just delete my account.

PUT YOUR MOTHA F**!*!* SIGNATURE ON THA MOTHA F$*%!#(* CONTRACT

I mean obviously.

Former. I totally buy that over weekend some verbal figures of 8/250 started to go out but nothing formal, and manny's side shopped info immediately to try and get people to match and go higher, and so sox said "we never agreed to that" and tried to re-anchor. And when it's all said and done he'll sign for 8 / 260-270 as people have said.

So it's been like 100 days (I think, Machado has me losing sense of time) and I'm still incredibly bummed.

I think the thing is he is pretty raw in both. Much more developed in football. He was a big gamble in baseball, he basically came on during one spring, but didn't have much of a track record.

Anything that benefits me is good and harms me is bad so by that token then yes.

In the future we've made font sizes more efficient.

Just wait for paul sullivan to finally get through his email then write "I'm hearing white sox have not moved from their 7 year offer to machado"

Oof. OOOF.

Here’s what I would do if I was Rick Hahn, Id call them up, say “hey are you interested in a great opportunity where you will go far?” Sign them to a deal and then announce on Jerry’s media website

The white Sox have done a very poor job supplementing this rebuild in the draft and Needs Robert to hit because otherwise it is another lost decade from Latin America, something that is an unbelievable anchor to whatever success this team may have.

2002 was terrible too. Didn't help when your pick gets in a motorcycle injury (though I fully believe Jay was gonna be a bust)

Maybe, as they polish their big trophy they made for themselves labeled “hardest tryers”, they will think “was it worth it? Could we have used the money we spent on our try hard trophy to actually sign the player? No. It is the fans who are wrong”

Then we switch to #lineuptalk.