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This is a good point.

Y’all are way too excited to move Madrigal.

Top 40? For sure. But he was also my first answer for “who would you give up that has some value” for x player. Those players get you mid season relief pitchers and expensive starters. It’s not nothing.

If Alex Call could just acquire a player, then Alex Call was capable of acquiring another player that may have aligned to the Sox rebuild better, and instead we may have to use a prospect we like more than Alex Call. These aren’t just valuing whether Call will be a CFer for us, he had value that we hopefully used for attracting a player but may have used for acquiring a not very good DH.

Ha, I’m not gonna lie this has crossed my mind: ”If you don’t sign we’ll bury your brother on the bench!”

Right this is articulating the down side well. This asset happens to align with the most redundant part of our fringe-ready prospects. But, it is anathema to our strategy overall so it’s certainly a big, positive story on the Machado front.

Has t been finalized but that’s the only name I’ve heard.

Is Call really a fringe prospect? Seems kinda mean. He has a decent shot to make a roster eventually, fringe prospect to me means some crappy a baller.

That seems like a good idea tbh

I hope so much this is a good sign. But the anxiety you see is that the stakes come to he to be raised. And again I think it means these FAs were a huge part of their plan, and I worry what it means if they took out all the stops and missed out. like a Tracy McGrady moment.

This last part is probably true, but also it just seems like anytime you sign family it’s just a “goodwill” gesture. The idea that this is some amazing recruiting strategy seems to overshoot it. Seems kinda desperate to me.

Oh hell yeah Best Ricky suggestion since Everth Cabrera.

Because we have a player that could be a long term solution for cheaper, is already as good, and there is no reason to acquire him.

Please stop beating this very dead horse.

Um. So anyway in isolation this is a terrible trade but in isolation I will be interested if we get a comp balance pick.

This is the day I will look back on and say either “this is when I knew Hahn was the guy for the job” or “this is the day I knew the front office was going to lose the rebuild”.

These things go in peaks and valleys and boy, this is a valley.

I love WCJ but My other take was bulls should have made big trade for luka and signed capela and had a lineup of Dunn LaVine luka lauri and capela and yeah I’d be through the moon

decent take.

Poorly constructed roster.

Gladly.

So this could turn out to be true. The thing about sources like these is they are never double checked, so there's a higher likelihood of error but there absolutely are correct versions. It'd be a shame if it was true, though. I already grew a beard for him.

I don't know the deadlines for when they need to pay but I doubt it. They can sign him, maybe lose leverage in shedding the salaries.

Maybe our very own sowa could be of service.

I have never seen KC Johnson so bluntly critical of the bulls leadership: