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Manny back to Dodgers confirmed

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How many more pages until this thread gets titled “Manny Pages”?

Heyward and Kris Bryant to White Sox?

Let’s get back on track. Any updated news? No Hangman update? No We need Caulfield right now...

The latter...interest in big fish signals openness to making bigger move than simple roster filling, 1 yr deals.

Even the team that drafted Trout passed on Trout to draft Randall Grichuk...

THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO @Balta1701 Agree. And on top of it, if we were to develop or draft more Eloy or Moncada type premium rated prospects, we could use those to get someone who is on a Sale-type team friendly contract. Good to plan for next 5 years by estimation but trying to project that out 10 years is a fool’s errand. The best we can and likely will do is only sign both with potential opt-outs near the end or swell opt closer to those earlier years when you can see what you truly have in the current crop of prospects.

If they are of the now popular “swell-opt” variety, we rejoice as we have flexibility in 3 years to opt in or let go and sign someone else or focus on internal talent ready to be paid (Lopez, Moncada, et al)

It’s not Manny related. He said as much on the original tweet where he posted those 👀 . It was around the time there was Joc smoke so maybe Joc related. In any event, it’s not bigger news than $1 beers at Kincaid’s which received 👀 👀

Long Off-season... Zero Attention? Not Over!

My Answer’s Coming... Hear Anything? Do Over! Our lives the past 2+ months in Acronymic Pentameter...see you tomorrow, for it is Wednesday.

Under.The.Radar Sox did the Bryce pitch right at the beginning...remember when we all thought he was our main target with no Manny news early on. Boras’ ship much tighter thus lips much tighter. Lozano is more of a histrionics showboat and thus planted leaks and fake news everywhere, which he somewhat successfully tried to stifle.

Because you hopefully will have a 7+ year relationship with him when it’s all done.

10/$365 million...guess

Probably a good 200 million plus reasons why he won’t. Granted it’s not the 300 million reasons he expected but it’s still a lot of reasons.

Why would Manny sign that?!? and Breaking News: Manny doesn’t stink

611...we can split the difference if it’s 612

Page 353 of this thread is a good summary of recent developments here: People jaded by “insiders”. No offense to IowaPG, who has since become a solid contributor, but it shows the issue of new people joining as “insiders” and spewing fabricated information. The beauty of page 353 is a real insider (Bucket) who barely posts decided to come on and debunk a myth by a wanna-be insider with a simple “Lol 👌” For SoxTalk, that’s like Jordan’s fax in ‘95: ”I’m back”

It was/is very cold in Chicago. Wednesday will bring “life threatening” cold. This is a reality of living through Chicago winters but not the welcome we want to provide...

WSD and Rabbit have sources. Whether they get complete info or post only what might be in the works with some limited info opens them up for unjust criticism. Me personally, like many others have said, prefer to get those teasers to dream upon versus nothing at all. I cast aside other new people that claim inside info until they prove they at least have access to someone important (both Rabbit ant WSD have at least interviewed Hahn...not something he offers to everyone) or break something. Now Bucket @macsandz is a whole other ball game. He does not “seek attention” nor make unbelievable claims. He rarely posts and very well might be someone in the org/front office. His posts are gold...and understandably vague at times.

Moncada, but yes.

51%

Nothing about any progress made in the last 48 hours nor about it being in addition to Machado.If there was something else about progress share a link. I totally disregard heresay at this point. This is what I was referencing on the 48 hours things; it’s from Fegan’s The Athletic article : “It’s not over yet for me,” Hahn said of offseason moves for the Sox. “The way the free-agent market or even the trade market by extension has played out over the last several winters, we’ve sort of moved away from SoxFest on the calendar being the unofficial start of the season, the kickoff before spring training. They’re still on our mind, conversations we’ve had the last 48 hours. There’s still three to four potential acquisitions that we’re working on.” https://theathletic.com/787220/2019/01/27/with-or-without-machado-rick-hahn-says-white-sox-arent-done-adding/

Other than no-name randos on social media, has anyone seen anything that says White Sox don’t have the highest offer? Or that another team has even made an official offer...that may or may not exceed that of the Sox? There is a fine line of “not getting bent over” and “showing genuine interest”. The Sox have done a good job of showing that they are legitimately interested and will do what it takes to land Manny. They have also set the line in the sand that they won’t just acquiesce to egregious demands that the perceived Manny market was “supposed to be.” If it comes out later that some other team got Manny at say 8/250 and Sox wouldn’t pony up that 8th year, go after Hahn and the FO. Until then, people are indicting based on unsubstantiated claims and imperfect information.