southsider2k5

Ok Boomer.

There was barely a reaction to speak of. Fegan was the only local who really went after it. The rest basically stuck to factual blurbs, and zero opinion.

What? Like one guy ripped into it. Most others pretty much ignored it. A couple even made excuses for him.

That's literally the point. Chicago protected TLR. They'd protect Bauer too. Dude would be regular back page news as a Met.

No. Not even close. Chicago media protects the teams a lot more. In NYC and Boston they burn players down for stories. Look at the non- reaction over the TLR stuff. That doesn't happen in those markets.

Bauer in NYC or Boston seems like worst case possible scenarios for him. The local media will go to war with him every time he does something stupid, which is too often.

Yeah I think the Sox cases are pretty cut and dried. It will be more interesting to see who other teams dump.

Yes. For the Sox it means the official end of the Great Falls affiliation

The one thing that crossed my mind here is how much TLR and Bauer line up politically. I am sure it will come down to money, but if anyone out there might actually be excited by our drunken clown of a manager, it might be him.

What if the insiders saying this isn't going to happen are just apart of a concerted series of leaks to throw people of the trail so they don't ruin the Bauer signing by making it public too early?

I would love to see it.

IIRC< haven't a couple of teams gotten fines and lost draft picks too?

Would they put a QO price tag of about $20 million on Lynn? Because that would be the only way he gets draft pick compensation.

Stiever for sure. His timeline puts him behind a lot of the guys we have now. That whole Thompson/Dalquist/Kelley/Crochet group is years down the road starters to start to replace guys who are currently here.

Stiver would be a good one to give up in a Lynn deal.

It depends on what their best offer looks like. If teams aren't offering a lot, they don't have much of a choice. The fact that Lynn didn't go anywhere at the deadline tells me that the offers reflected the lack of control.

I would love to see the Sox explore this route. If you give a minimal return, it makes it essentially a free agent signing.

I'd love to target Kluber.

Being caught in between is the worst of both worlds. If you want to move up the calendar, spend. If you can't spend, don't waste your future without getting future pieces back.

If he can pick up a Marquez type that has years of control to fit the window this team is looking at, that is a different story. Even if you lose a guy to an injury, you at least have them back for a couple/few more years. If that happens with a Lynn type, you completely lose the deal and gave away parts of your future reinforcements to do it.