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That's really awkwardly written. I think he is actually trying to say that he DOESN'T believe that because of his first sentence, otherwise the second sentence doesn't make any sense with the first one.

You don't remember it all. The Sox tried to extend him, repeatedly. Then he disappeared and had an unauthorized and experimental surgery outside of the US without telling the team. Even after that they tried to extend him, and he accused them of trying to take advantage of him due to his injury.

You might be too young to remember, but Magglio burned that bridge to the ground.

I mean the bat was always expected to play, his question was could he play a serviceable enough 3B to keep him out of the 1B log jam, right?

Hmm...

If this were a normal season, we'd be around the first of May.

They had a high priority placed on a top end pitcher, even offering 9 figures to get one done. I have zero doubt they will chase another #1 starter this winter.

FG 98.2%, 6th overall in AL BR 98.2%, 7th overall in AL

Again, i know this will turn into the resign McCann thread, but there is no way the dude is signing on to be a back up for the next three years. The sooner people give up that idea, the less miserable they will be this winter when he moves on.

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Lopez is done as soon as he can be replaced. He would have already been replaced it wasn't for injuries.

I mean this should have been clear all along after the injuries started setting in. I said it on the trade deadline, and will say it again. This team isn't currently "one player" away. There was no one they would get at the deadline to get them over the top. Their best window is still a year or two away. Management tried to move it up with their off season signings, but the main part of the window is still in the future as the pitching gets here and matures.

Its funny, there is no need to look up scores or follow a game. All you need to do is look at thread titles on Soxtalk to know if the team won or lost last night.

Yet who signed them both?

Tom Seaver

Jimenez

Adding a power hitting left handed OBP-centric catcher in a season where McCann had his first good season of his career, and even then tailed off pretty impressively at the end of the season, was not a bad allocation. There was a much better chance of McCann returning this historic norms, versus keeping up at an all-star pace. There is also the chance that his impact this season has been partially because of playing favorable match ups in this platoon with Grandal.

Only if you use Baseball reference. Fangraphs has him at 0.6 for the 27 games he has played so far, putting him at about 3.5 for a full season.

Yo is back

He Who Shall Not be Named was the NL player of the month. When you add him and Robert in with Jose Abreu, Marco Paddy has to be feeling pretty good about himself right now.

I wonder how Mariners twitter feels about this?

Let's keep this ball rolling.

You can't take apart a draft and talk about not drafting college players at specific point in a draft. With the spending system the way that it is, if you spend up to get early HS picks, it totally changes what you have to do ahead of and behind that pick to afford the over slot price of a HS player. To get multiple HS players early, you have to draft way underslot with your first pick, or punt pretty much every pick after them to save enough money for the overslot spending.

That is a great catch Tony. That information put together makes a lot of sense. I would imagine there was some discussion both about who they could get, and who they could lose, and how that would affect the team.