Balta1701

That is the one thing that might make a legit difference between us and the Dodgers, they might be willing to offer an opt out after 2 years and the Sox just couldn't.

I would be genuinely surprised if he signed for $325 and the White Sox came out and said they had an offer on the table for $350 and were turned down.

Eloy started off the first few weeks in Charlotte with an .825ish OPS and then he got hurt. I have no problem leaving him there for a couple more weeks. That would have been my original statement to these guys - they come up when they dominate the league completely. Eloy's getting there, but he hasn't crossed my line yet.

I will be very surprised if Machado receives the highest offer from one team and walks away from it to go to a different team that he has decided to like more. The question, IMO, will be whether the White Sox make the highest offer or not.

Houston is absolutely hunting for another reliable reliever right now also, and I think it's doubtful that they'd pay the price for a high flying closer with their history. The fact that Soria has closed before, even if he's not their main option in that role, might be especially attractive to them.

His contract technically ends this year, we'd have to offer him arbitration next offseason still.

I'd probably take that bet too...but that's not what the Yankees would be asking when trading for him, they're looking to win a world series this year, and therefore his disastrous month and a half stretch would take priority. Jose Abreu right now is valueless in a trade; you could probably get someone to claim him on waivers and take him for nothing, but you are not getting talent back for Abreu right now. That's how deep and how long this stretch has been. Whether it's injury or being completely out of sync or whatever, right now Jose Abreu is a bad and overpaid hitter and that's how he has to be viewed as a trade asset.

You're talking about teams who need to evaluate "What will this player do for me in August and September". Being terrible in June and July is really important for that evaluation.

No team will look at Jose Abreu's numbers over the past month and a half and think so. He may well be, but he's hit .180 over the past 46 games. He may turn it back on starting next game, but he has a week and a half until the trade deadline, and any team trading for him will look at nearly 2 month stretch of being an awful hitter and think "This guy may go right back to being awful next week" because the trade deadline is in 12 days. Jose Abreu has no value in a trade right now. You could get other teams to take him as a salary dump, but the White Sox should have no reason to give him up as a salary dump. You're getting nothing of value back for Jose Abreu right now.

With the amount of money you've thrown in that's probably actually a fair deal, but it's a deal no team currently even remotely close to the playoff chase is going to offer. None of them are that desperate for $18 million and in need of a back end starter and 2 bullpen pitchers. Teams might have a role for those players, but they don't need the money, or vice-versa.

I'm saying that Greg Bird is currently outhitting Jose Abreu and as a consequence right now Jose Abreu would be an expensive downgrade for the Yankees, so yeah, Soria is at least a player of value.

Why do the White Sox need to dump salary in this?

Cleveland knows their window isn't long enough for Mejia to make a difference before this team breaks up and that they need to be contenders for a title this year and next year, and Hand helps that tremendously.

When a guy says "There was 1 star in this draft and he was the guy who was drafted 3rd", I have to admit a little skepticism.

Move one of them (Seager?) over to 2b.

The Dodgers aren't going to be worrying about the luxury tax next offseason as long as they're under it this year. If they stay under the tax level this year, the penalties reset for them - for every dollar they are over the tax line of about $210 million they'll only pay a 15% tax. If they didn't get under this year, they'd pay a 50% multi-year-repeater tax for every dollar over the tax line.

Last year the White Sox were in much more of a position to take Cordell/Gillaspie type trades because the big league team and Charlotte were both pretty darn devoid of talent. It's not all up to those levels yet, but now we're starting to see positions get filled at those levels - catcher, corner OF, 2b, SS, a lot of starting pitching are already at those levels. Next year, that monster WS team is going to be reaching BHam by the middle of the season at the latest, and some of those guys are going to command slots at higher levels soon.

Well that's a little surprising.

You wrote multiple posts asking why numbers normally released in November arent yet published and alleging some sort of impropriety because you didn’t bother actually clicking on the documents and checking the date line and you have the audacity to tell someone else they’re in over their head.

"Just did" = does some place say that this is done and official?

Oh so you're just after tax returns? The Clinton Tax form for 2016 was released in November of 2017. Each previous audited release has happened on November 15 of the subsequent year - 2016 was released on November 15 2017, 2015 was released on November 15 2016, 2014 was released on November 15 2015. So your statement: Is kind of strange only in the sense that it is July and not November 15.

At the very least if I was a teammate of his, I'd expect that he's going to have to do better than saying "I was 17". I would believe he could be that dumb, but I sure as heck wouldn't take him for his word and just let that be it.

So in other words they were in operation in 2016 and have not yet released a financial statement and you're criticizing one organization for not yet releasing their financial statement that year while not criticizing another for not yet releasing its financial statement that same year.

At the very least, most of the things he tweeted, including the stuff using the N-word, were not song lyrics.