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What does it say though that the smarter franchises keep ditching players like this and the Sox keep scooping them up.

We take on 20 million for a player who has a number of red flags that he is as good as last year: - Any player the Rays trade off after a plus season, especially to get 1 year of a 2 WAR catcher - His plus season showed off very little power, making me skeptical his OBP will maintain but especially improve. Seems like a big regression candidate. - His defense does not seem to be plus and if it drops off that kills a lot of value Meanwhile Basabe is a top ten prospect that shows he can likely stick at center, has shown good ability to walk and possibility of power. It’s way too much than I’d ever give up for Smith plus 20 mill in cost.

Your last sentence is an assumption the Sox have not earned.

Some here think every leak is strategic. Sometimes people just love knowing something others don’t and are flattered to get the questions and captive audience.

Deals fall apart all the time even in late stages. But these are not the smoke signals you like to see, as DA says. I way way downgrade Sox’s chances after stuff like this starts popping up.

Deals fall apart all the time even in late stages. But these are not the smoke signals you like to see, as DA says. I way way downgrade Sox’s chances after stuff like this starts popping up.

Would harsher luxury tax penalties really have stopped this situation? I’m skeptical.

The scary thing is if we miss on these guys the rebuild truly relies exclusively on white Sox player development to not only max out players for production, but prospects to trade.

I would never do that trade ever.

Well here’s some free advice to Hahn, don’t brag about trying to get top players, brag about getting them.

If we get encarnacion I’d gather he wouldn’t actually play here. Also just going to block out that Dan Clark tweet to enjoy my day.

Machado has joined the elite group of players I follow on Instagram to 2, he joins Luis Robert. Please let IG end up as the clue to him signing with us.

People have screamed that the cubs are over leveraged since 2014 and it hasn’t mattered a smidge. You are lying to yourself if you think the cubs wouldn’t do this deal if they thought it could get them a World Series with this core.

His Instagram story shows Alonso as the family Santa. Santa being a white Sox player is big, maybe even bigger than Alonso.

I don’t really know the answer.

I love chugging egg nog in July

I think what rings true to me at KW is he was able to paper over his deficiencies in overseeing the amateur and international scouting operations with an incredible run of identifying talent that would continue to produce past age 30, and identify undervalued talent blocked in other systems. But when his ability to find major league talent dipped and ability to acquire it was diminished it became a house of cards about to fall. Our core produced for quite a while and he fooled himself into thinking his strategy of investing everything into the pro level could be sustainable. That said, he would have greatly benefitted from the updated draft and intl free agent pools. Jerry’s heterodoxy I’m sticking to draft slots before there was a cap was a major factor in KWs strategy.

The reds absolutely believe they are competing next year and think reenforcements from their farm are still on the way. Sounds familiar.

Man that was some game from Javon Pickett. Xavier Pinson will be fun too if he develops on defense and limits his TOs. When Porter went down I just wanted a 500 season and that’s still likely but man what a run the last two games.

The baseline has to be this 10 year 280 deal he turned down from Was (removing that deferred money). Signing for less, even with high AAV, would be really surprising.

One thing that I do strongly believe is the dodgers would have made that trade yesterday even without a possibility of signing Harper. It just opened it up more. But I really wouldn’t be shocked if Friedman maintained discipline. He clearly enjoys this overwhelming depth model, and if he goes for it it may just be for midseason acquisitions.

I figured but googling never found it. Thanks.

Is loaning a legal thing that just isn’t done or is it illegal in CBA?

If only we could sign Harper and then loan him out to dodgers for this year.

That guy should ask for a job as an assistant to the GM like yesterday