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Mariners are having a pretty shit offseason as well imo.

That is a very white sox deal on the face. Overpaying a guy who might just slide back to a 1 WAR player or even worse.

We're a Luis Robert torn thumb or strained hammy away from being in a dogfight. Didn't have to be this way.

I speak only for myself but this is about as down as I could possibly be on a club projected to win the division.

I tried listening to his pod once or twice, it was shockingly stupid for a guy that spends so much time covering the team and making it a public persona. But, the same is true of his boss Jim.

This has the potential to be a legendary Soxtalk meme.

narrator: turns out, he was never their guy.

is this an open letter?

Fegan is a great writer and a terrible tweeter.

I'm Jerry Reinsdorf, b****.

Dumb question but maybe they figured a better cba? I'm reaching here, I know.

I honestly don't think he's an upgrade of Engel. ZIPS thinks they are about equal per PA FWIW.

Joc isn't an upgrade on what they already have, so it would have been another shit move.

hahn trending on twitter for the wrong reasons.

well that's dumb. at least we aren't the rockies.

...as there's a deep drive to left...

That's what I'm thinking. Even if they don't win it all I can see him saying enough. He's got generational wealth, he's got an MVP, he's played in the playoffs. He's accomplished quite a bit. He's a Sox legend and will get a statue. If he wants to spend more time with his family who can blame him and it might honestly help the Sox if he decides to retire anyways.

Could be but the impression I get is that he's thinking about his family and is tired of baseball a bit, maybe climbing the mountain so many times but not quite summiting has gotten to him. Quite the contrast from "I'll sign myself" a couple years ago.

Wow. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of his future either in Chicago or elsewhere. Sounds sorta like a guy tired of the long hours in the offseason in your mid 30s to keep trying to play 130 plus games. I feel that quote deserves a thread. I'll make one.

God this is fucking boring and lame.

Sox have a horrific track record of trading young cost controlled players too soon.

Again: why would you sign a 1.5 WAR aging FA in order to jettison a 1.5 WAR younger, could still improve player you have under team control?

it's going to cost more per WAR to improve a 92 win team than a 75 one almost every time. That's just where we are at. Yes it's "expensive" but winning is expensive.

I said that a couple days ago. If that doesn't get it done, then fuck it, but it should.