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Wow inviting that POS back that quit on the team. Fuck that.

The blue checkmark on Twitter is about as reliable as wiki on public figures. It's largely a political gesture curated by twitter as a for profit company.

Bingo. Just some twitterati bullshitting.

You guys are seriously under-rating Yolmer because the Sox over relied on him in a shit year. He is the EXACT sort of guy you need as a good team. He's a guy you protect against LHP as well, not that our manager would recognize that. He's bene league avarege by both bWAR and fWAR basically for his career. That's fucking useful. And he plays an emergency SS. That's like the holy grail of a utility guy and he slashed 255/316/408 against RHP (note that .153 iso...room for that BABIB to come up and his surprising pop to show, especially platooned). anyways, he's a good utility guy. cutting him would be stupid AF.

I mean if that's the case they need to strike. Yolmer is easily worth 4 years 20 million. If things are that bad, where solid utility guys can't get paid in this revenue environment yikes. and they will strike in 2021 and it will be a doozy. we should buckle up imo. revenue at record high not even including the mlbam windfall of 2.5 billion and payrolls down 18 million on average? ha. tellingly while overall ticket sales were down revenue was flat. Tickets prices and concessions are rising in cost and even then: in game attendance hardly matters. It's that TV money. But! Part of why I think some of us want this so badly is to have a reason to come out again to the games. Like, the young prospects are fine but Machado is a superstar. And we traded all of ours away. In hopes to...one day have more of them. Come on, get it done Sox. Spend the money JR.

the sox granting him FA would have him in a celebratory mood I'd imagine (after a quick pep talk with his agent), as he'd be free of his arb years. He's a 1.0-2.5 WAR player than can play 4 positions. There's a spot for him on every roster in MLB. If the Sox are dumb enough to cut him I hope he turns into Lindor Light. He's actually an example of their scouting and development working. If they had a few more Yolmers around post 2005 maybe they aren't here right now.

That's uh...not how athletes are wired.

He'll be alright he already got 3 years service time and invaluable MLB seasoning. He's got 8 more years in front of him either as a bench bat in Chicago or somewhere else. And the Sox trained him at multible positions. It was a mutually beneficial relationship and I hope Yolmer is year for some good years. I like the guy.

At this point we should just do some 4chan shit and try and get Bruce to Bob to tweet a Soxtalk rumor.

The situation is day to day. Aren't we all.

I'll only post drunk ;-)

Meh. Heyward has been Gordon Beckham'ing his swing into the shitter for almost half a decade now. Manny is coming off another great offensive year and also appears to be completely healthy. No reason to compare the two other than to post a Fangraphs piece in the dead of winter in an ice cold hot stove market and get those clicks.

If you're a Bulls fan you're already ready to go over the edge. If they don't get this done, given the last decade of futility I'm leaping headfirst into apathy and cynicism. In fact, other members can hope the apathy gets me so that my posts won't litter the board. It's gonna be like a Shields game day thread turned to 11 when I'm around.

meh. have some courage in your convictions and source(s). if he really has inside info like that then say like "based on that it appears Chicago is the heavy favorite and another team will have to pull a last minute upset..." "it may or may not happen" is chickenshit.

so the deal could happen or it couldn't? God damn I need a twitter.

Yea then you remember you're a sox fan.

Houses are mostly fungible. Not the case here. There is no player that is even 50% as good as Manny that plays a massive position of need as a backup plan. Getting him to sign quickly before someone else can rethink things isn't the worst strategy.

well that's a meaningless tautology if I've seen it. Replace "JR's company" with "White Sox"...come on.

tenemos que tener paciencia mi amigos.

at some point in this saga Hamlet will be typed out in a thread.

Sounds like a kid oriented water park.

ever heard of pot odds? they'd be stupid to invest all that and fold.

He just deactivated. You have 30 days to reactivate. Dan's problem, again, is taking the Internet as Serious Business.

what you don't appreciate that he replaced "utility player" with "versatile player around the infield" -- that's the sort of Shakespearean prose you can only get from Dan Clark's Twitter.

SS2K I was the one that laughed at that post. As for the ratings, what do I know I am now the owner of the "dumbest take in Soxtalk history"!