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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.

And thus concludes the most annoying day since yesterday.

I think if you actually laid out all of the public info you'd be feelin pretty good.

Bathroom lines is true but they usually end up closing so many vendors i've never found it to be that different 10k to 25k (after that it's noticeable)

Naw, this is all part of the kabuki but it's unneccessary and okay to be annoyed by sox being tone deaf during it.

Ok yeah sign any time now machado I think we have hit peak offseason.

Having the sox not do annoying things that aren't that impactful to outcomes is actually fine.

FWIW I think this is plausible.

PD ain't the only one.

Merk: "Kenny literally every chicago writer has tweeted out the 7 years i think they get the point" KW: "You got twitter ready?" Merk: "This isn't nec-" KW: "what's happening? per VERY HIGH DISTINGUISHED SOURCE the white sox offer does note exceed 7 years" Merk: "Can I at least get a dollar range to differentiate?" KW:" can i at weast get the dowwar wange SEND TWEET MERK"

KW really operating the phone tree right now.

LOL give me a break

NVM it was a MUTUAL option so it's still just a 1 year deal.

Man, Grandal also had a team option. What an incredible deal for Milwaukee.

cc that one poster who said everyone saying 90% was dumb

Yes it was.

Well, if he does that, it isn't the fans you should be upset with.

Right, and as confident as I am right now, I do wonder if a 5/150 deal from the yankees came back in play if that isn't more attractive than a 7/200 and if Manny, tired of waiting for sox to budge, just signs.

Yes, and you can see why with him. Good exit velocity on hits, great arm in right. Good speed on basepaths... and yet never put it together.

all I could think of when I saw that was this

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-manny-machado-netflix-20190114-story.html Rosenthal (media critic at trib) noting the idea of signing manny in prep for network "launch". One of the reasons I'm so determined to see sox succeed is I do think this was a major part of their rebuild. I believe that Hahn sold Reinsdorf on the rebuild by saying the sox would use their assets to get a glut of young talent, allowing them to get one of the whales of 2018 (when it looked better than it did now), and would more quickly be able to build a winner than trying to improve at the margins, largely stuck with a poor farm and exhausted payroll. The gains of the youth took a hit through injury and developmental sluggishness last year, the gains from fa can't take a similar hit.

It just seems like 8/260-270 as everyone is saying is that goldilocks compromise position and high enough that others won't get there with philly out. This is all fun but I'm really not that worried. You ain't turning down 7/230 for 2 for 80, it's a massive offsetting risk. Sox are just above that "eff it" threshold and that's good but they'll have to go up a bit and they know it and machado will have to go down a bit and they know it and all will be well.