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I love Cooper. He falls in love with college prospects too much, but the guy just loves baseball. That whole BA crew is incredible with how much they get around and still write with passion.

Oh I think teams are willing to pay 30 mill for the prime years of a contract and can get pulled into the tail ends of the contract, what I don't believe is only taking a 2 year contract getting the AAV you wants will open up more opportunity for the age 29-34 years of your contract. You may be faced again with shorter deals than you want and lower AAV. There is no guarantee. Also injury.

Holland learning the great trick of signing with the white sox to bottom out your career, then regaining form the next year and getting a nice contract. I do not particularly like this trend of sox free agent signings either ending upt he next year out of baseball or much better than when on sox.

eh, despite rhetoric I'd guess most in this thread feel better than they ever have about signing machado and are just annoyed at process.

Feels like we've been saying this for 3 straight years. A bunch of teams re-set their luxury tax for this year and salaries had been cleared for this free agent period. i don't know that it will be better.

If the white sox were offering insulting offers, the phillies would have signed him by now.

Eh, things happen not at all and then really quickly.

Well, regardless, I don't care about the price of the offer as much as its the sox that acquire him. Have not seen anything threatening that with all of this reporting.

White Sox now "Manny..Ma Machando? Machado? Oh I think I heard a him. Met him at a party one. Nice guy, never did bizness tagedder."

I think this may be true but I'm going to hold out judgment on him until he proves himself in AA. He's had the least challenging path of all of our outfielders so far.

I've said it before but looking back Krause really was planning a modern form of team building that was derailed by: - a truly awful set of years to draft high - a lack of patience He had the right ideas and drafted well, then threw it all away starting with the jalen rose trade, and making a push to get better in the first draft year that would have changed the franchise for a generation: 2003. Where the bulls could have drafted Lebron melo or wade, and apparently held onto a vet and did not consummate a trade that would have brought wade and started bringing in more established college prospects. The Paxson era was on.

I think it's close. I'm excited.

I bet Keuchel takes a soft landing either back with stros or with brewers.

I’m wondering if this is a “don’t even think about it Yankees we will still outbid you” move.

I’ve started to adjust downward, market appears just too limited.

That’s great from Passan. I’m gonna say it ends up around 8/250-260, and the last bit is just bumping up from that 30 mill per level.

He also can only write milquetoast analysis that chalks everything up to personality and culture. He’s the Dan Pompei if baseball. He has one of the top baseball writing jobs, I think it’s okay to point out he is no where close to his peers.

Still hoping there’s no opt out on machado.

Yeah I am not someone who thinks getting both would be a good team building strategy. Would start to bite fairly quick as soon as players in arb.

This board is so weird.

Caught up to you eventually.

I feel same. Not a very smart leak otherwise. Okay. I didn’t really want both but after Parkey, would love to tear their hearts out mortal kombat style.

You don’t think offer would leak?

Funniest scenario definitely would be phils bowing out early due to Harper confidence, Sox signing machado, then Harper going to dodgers.

I only hope we find out and it’s because he’s a white Sox to be honest