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He probably has no idea of his election until it runs on Fox.

I am excited about seeing what Sosa does in the coming year. Curbelo and Delgado are the two other ones I am very interested to see what they can do coming out as HS picks. Mendick and Rivera are interesting, but a lot less exciting. More high floor/low ceiling type guys in the latter two.

Avi was worth nothing in his career year in 17. After an injury filled 18 and free agency after 19, he has zero trade value.

Palka and Delmonico to start with. Both have a better chance at making a contribution to the Sox in 20, than Avi does. Eloy in mid April will also need a job.

And adult conversations.

It isn't about the money, it is about the roster spot. Avi isn't the future. He has no trade value. He fills a position where we need to evaluate players who might be here in 2020/21/22 etc. Avi is worth nothing to the 2019 White Sox.

That has been prediction for about a month now.

Actually doing some more reading, the Cubs purchase was basically formed as a tax dodge by the Ricketts and the debt absolutely can't be paid off before 2020 due to some IRS reasons.

Typically there isn't the incentive to pay something off early. More likely the partners are taking profit and returning capital to the organization versus chasing an early payoff. Doing some quick googling it sounds like the interest on their debt alone was somewhere between $30 and $35 million on the bank financed portion alone.

Deciding that they are paying off debt early in a period of rising interest rates is an interesting assumption.

Why? What are the terms of the deal?

The Sox got just under $5 million this year (of which they couldn't go over $300k for any one kid) and $4.75 million the year before with the same signing restrictions. They have been using the cap space they can't spend to bring in players they can get through trades. They have signed who they can, and it is worth noting one of their signings for this year failed a drug test late in the process.

That team is also one of the deepest in debt teams in MLB. There is a ceiling there.

July 2, 2019 the White Sox operate under full rights in Latin America again. Also no one can spend "40-50 million" in the under 25 year old Latin American crowd ever again. The rules changed a couple of seasons ago.

They will once they return to luxury tax territory. This is actually the part of building a team that proved to be the downfall of Theo in Boston. Free Agency and sustaining.

Again, I really hope the Cubs sign Harper to a huge deal.

They got a top 100 guy for Kahnle and Robertson. Robertson was maxed out in value because he had a $13m annual deal attached to him. Tommy Kahnle ended up being so bad that the Yankees sent him down. Soria was not " a really good reliever". He was so worthless that the Sox were given him AND Luis Avilian for the simple act of being willing to pay Soria. The Sox turned him into a serviceable middle reliever that they turned into 3 much better prospects than what they started out with in Jake Peter. The 4th guy I am not even sure who you are referring to. If it is Swarzak, all you have to do is look at where the Sox sold on him to know they also sold him at his top value. If it is Dan Jennings I might just laugh at you.

This sounds vaguely familiar for some reason...

The last time this happened with the Braves, all of the teams that had cap space were able to sign guys under the normal rules. They did add an exception that teams could move the dollars forward into the next signing period if they desired. If that happened, this could actually put the White Sox on the map to sign any guys who might be thrust into FA because of this scandal.

This just came out. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evidence-of-hacked-supermicro-hardware-found-in-u-s-telecom?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business