If Harper signed with the Sox it would have coincided with Andersons run as one of the better hitting shortstops in the league for the first 3 seasons of that contract. Who knows what happens with any of them, maybe Harper gets the injury bug that got all of them, maybe guys like Eloy avoid those stupid injuries, maybe everything stays static and the Sox have their run Peter out as fast as it came about. The point is, they didn’t invest in one of the best players in the league who is also a clubhouse leader, and wanted to come to the White Sox. They pretended to make an effort to sign him, and that’s worse because that is a stain on the organization around the league. Not that Jerry cares about any of that