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Don't get excited yet. We don't have the 15 national sources confirming this.

Both should be solid depth pieces that hopefully I never have to see play a game.

I doubted that Hayward could be easily moved coming into the winter, but after seeing the Dodgers easily move horrible contracts, my mind has been changed.

Is there an accompanying rock show?

He either has to be, bids are much lower than thought, or the Sox put on one helluva pitch.

WGN has been getting out of the sports business so it isn't a big surprise.

We all know he got 10/300 from Washington, so yeah.

So is he saying the top bids are much lower than we have been lead to believe?

It is slowly starting to happen, though the traffic jams at the lowest levels are making it harder to see them.

Shut it down. The Sox one draft pick was a high floor guy. They didn't go over their allotment to sign a high school kid at the end of the signing period this year, or spend $50 million out of pocket on a raw centerfielder out of Cuba, or anything like that either.

I read this as they were either doing roster dressing for 2019, or they were bringing in whales if they could get them, but they weren't going to entertain anyone for the mid-term or the type of guys who COULD be available when they were good again. They were targeting a couple of the top guys, but weren't really interested in the 2nd and 3rd tier guys.

Did you take that to mean they were absolutely signing someone big this year?

Their quotes were that players are available now that might not be ready when they are ready to compete, and that they had the resources to try to go after them.

That the process seems longer than ever, and that I think White Sox related reasons make it feel even more that way than normal for White Sox fans? I think that is absolutely fair.

You probably shouldn't waste your time on the Sox for the next few years then if you are honestly waiting for them to be fired.

People are bored of the rebuild by now, even though it was what they asked for two years ago. They are also green-eyed about a certain team across town. We all knew this would be a process and I think a lot of people got way too excited about the thrill of the hunt for these top two players. The odds were never in our favor. We are District 13 right now.

And?

Just, no.

Even as the second fiddle in Chicago, they have more of a market then they would pretty much anywhere else realistic,.

The thrill of wrapped unknowns is greater than opening all of them to find out you got Ivan Nova for Christmas.

At 3% compounding 7/300 turns into $327.8 million by year 10. If the player earns any money at all in those 3 years it weights towards the 7/300 more heavily.

So this screencap of a line of this book was so awesome, I literally went and bought this book because of it.

Again, only if Machado doesn't use those open 3 years on the end of the deal to earn any money. If he earns something those three years, the equation skews.