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That report was unreal in the amount of detail it had in it.

This could cost him a hundred million dollars, or more. Is it worth hitting free agency sooner if you take a haircut on your earnings because your employer wasted years of your career in the pen because they didn't want to spend on a reliever.

Sure, but he'd would also be in line for MUCH bigger arb salaries, plus a lot less question marks heading towards free agency which could move him from a Tyler Glasnow type deal, to a Garrett Cole type deal.

They might not even roster the guy. They probably do like the White Sox should and eat the money and move on like a real franchise.

This is not going to happen for YEARS at least. They are still in cut mode.

Look, if you are trying to change people's mind that the hitting prospects are fine, you should probably be able to name more than two decent ones.

Yet one of the biggest and most loyal fanbases in the world.

Nicky Lopez and Mike Soroka for starters.

I mean, they did exactly this last year. Why would it be surprising if they did it again. Honestly, my only hope is that Chris Getz purposefully Major Leagued last year to try to get Jerry to agree to the changes he wanted all along, because any other scenario is worse for Sox fans.

This one I will agree to. Execs are always out there pretending like the guy they ended up with, was the one they wanted all along. I remember the old joke about Mike Trout being the second choice of 29 teams in MLB the year he was drafted.

I am all about these two.

So it is probably happening.

But we will hear plenty about how great they actually are, and how we shouldn't have expected anything more.

The crowd that thinks we can build around Crochet will lose their minds.

Which is why the ballpark village concept would appeal to Jerry.

This is going to be ugly when it happens if he signs an extension early on.

This has never been about drawing fans when winning. We all know Sox fans are a bandwagon lot who show up for blue skies. Jerry is looking north at Wrigley for a place whose game day experiences are so powerful that people don't just show up when times are good, but still show up when things are bad.

I, for one, would welcome our new overlords.

No, I was saying he wasn't top 30, which is accurate. He is literally not. You shifted this into "well i think so" territory

He will also be going back to Birmingham as a 25 year old, and again above league average age as a post TJS guy with a profile that doesn't really jump out.

Even if it actually were to happen, that just means he got on because other guys fell so much. That is also not a good thing.

So we are to the point where you claim he is a top 30 guy because you claim he is, despite no one else saying it. Got it. Cool.

Looking at FutureSox, Keith Law, fangraphs, and MLB rankings he is quite literally not a top 30 guy.