Balta1701

They paid Rodon $8.65 million over 2 years for less.

Because they think that either: They can extend Lynn, or One of their young guys can certainly develop into that TOR guy, or They have enough to do a similar trade next offseason for another available starter, or They think they can win this season and don’t care, or They haven’t figured out yet that you can get the better player in a trade and lose the trade, so they didn’t think about anything other than getting the better player. Any could be true.

According to the DOJ all Presidential Pardons, once signed and agreed to, become part of the public record. https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions

What is the Yankees system like these days? Do they have a top flight player they could move in a deal like that?

My last post in that thread a few days before he signed was an 8 paragraph or so rant saying the White Sox didn't feel bad wasting $50 million on their noncompetitive teams and they now had a seemingly competitive team, so they should get off their tails and sign an excellent reliever to what is a totally reasonable contract given his performance level before their window marches past them. I'm ok with this.

Who is to say that Quintana couldn't push that average fastball velocity up a little more if he was coming out of the pen for a time?

Mack's cap hit is $26.6m, but what's his salary? The salary is the thing that matters to the team acquiring him, because that's the cap hit they will have to absorb. The Bears would have to absorb the cap hit from combining anything they spread out into a signing bonus into a single year.

For that money, either Quintana or trading something of actual value for a Musgrove makes more sense.

i could understand Richards if you were getting him for like $3 million and that was all you could do because you'd spent your money on Liam. But at that price range? Naw. Let someone else take that gamble.

Someone please tell me this is a private group overreacting, and not the actual situation in this country.

Yeah, but this is the Yankees we are talking about. The question with them Is...what do things look like at the end? They know lack of healthy starting pitching has hurt the last couple years, and additional pitchers are affordable if they want to go for them.

I laughed way more expecting this was real.

Well that’s disappointing.

Well, he now knows where to eat.

I don't see any high priced FA pitcher because I don't see the White Sox signing Bauer, that's really simple. But they have room to extend Giolito, sign Bauer, and still have room at the trade deadline without any tax issues.

If the White Sox spend $45 million signing Bauer and Cruz, I will be quite stunned, and they will still be under the tax.

He could have been traded before this, but if a team is worried about the money a lot, having the money firmed up can help.

The reason that the White Sox's luxury tax number is higher than their total salary is that all the luxury tax numbers are averaged. So, even though Moncada and Robert may only get small amounts this year, their luxury tax number is based on the average annual value of the contract. That means...the difference between the 2 numbers will be the largest in the early years of those deals, and turn around the other way in the second half of their deals.

5 more days until we swap this out with basic competence. 5 more days of this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/15/trump-vaccine-reserve-used-up/?tid=ss_tw

Support for educational institutions. If they are taking hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, they will be cutting staff, avoiding hires, eliminating teaching positions, and I’m still hunting for one.

Which of Glennon, Trubisky, and Foles are OK QB's?

Au contraire...I'm pretty sure that is.