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@Sleepy Harold is as usual way better at getting the tweet threads than me. Props sir!

Read this whole thread. SHerman is a great reporter, he is not talking as if Machado is anywhere like a done deal. But on the other hand, is he saying gleybar torres should back up tulo? Come on dude. edit, sorry here is the money tweets

Happy Year.

I also missed that the Yanks tried to get Profar. Interesting.

Nice to see they are still negotiating. Yankees/Dodgers seem to be in enviable seat where they can just see what others offer and figure out what gets them close enough to sign since they appear to be preferred destinations. I hope sox make it as uncomfortable as possible.

Worst case scenario definitely manny to yanks, Andujar packaged to Indians for Kluber.

Still think it’s bizarre he wouldn’t wait ... 24 hours.

Do people realize Andujar is good?

This too...why not wait until you know you have the interim DiDi spot?

That’s not what I meant. It’s that he could sign anywhere (and it may have been BS but there was supposedly good interest after his tryout) and so team fit was really his only selling point. And he chose Yankees whichever aim surprised he thought gave him best shot at PT.

I get it from Yankees side, don’t get it at all from tulos sidr, especially on a min deal.

How much would someone have to pay me more to have a 12 hr direct flight home instead of a 9 hour direct flight home. Not that much more.

So anyway 4 for basically 60 is a little high but would have liked that deal for sox

This makes a lot more sense. edit: actually rereading his first tweet it actually was describing the 4 year extension as a team option. The first time I read the 4 year guarantee as a player option.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25658933/seattle-mariners-japanese-lefty-yusei-kikuchi-agree-four-year-deal I think Heyman was mistaken. Passan mentions no four year extension. He probably just misunderstood someone saying that when the player option is executed it’s a guaranteed 4 year contract, not an additional 4 years.

Yeah exactly. It would have been fun and maybe it’s a 7 year 10 million contract (I doubt it) but not a length I’d want to commit to. Really bizarre.

That ... sounds like he’s mistaken. You are giving the player the option to re ew his contract for 4 years?

Could have been Colleen Kane.

If you replaced KW/Hahn with the Brewers FO you think the rebuild would last longer? No way, they’d get more out of everything, especially FA.

There are 8 openings, maybe more. There aren’t enough offensive assistants to go around and now the success of previous older, “not HC material” coaches like Reich succeeding means someone will take a chance. NFL teams are worse at hiring coaches than they are at even drafting.

And lack of impact draftees despite best position Sox have been in consistently for basically 5 straight years

Guessing with so many openings Fangio is good as gone. Helfrich may be kicked around too. Who are even the obvious candidates? McCarthy will get a second run. Arians maybe comes back. Guessing Carmichael finally gets a shot.

FWIW the Hoge and Hahns podcast had Robinson again as pretty much guaranteed to play

Also just thinking about how nervous I was after Giants loss that the Bears could finish up 1-3 and losing division. They went 4-0.

So I kinda felt like Wims and White actually provided a nice look in this more ball control offense Bears have morphed into. Nice to have a bigger, physical complement than what Bellamy provides (even though Bellamy has played pretty well).