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This is a team coming off of it's 3rd straight 100 loss season. It is the definition of not a winning formula. Realistically, it should be in talent accumulation stage, and if Murakami is anywhere near the contract he thought he was getting before he came to MLB, it isn't going to come from the White Sox. Losing him for nothing isn't a winning formula either.

I will also note one aspect that isn't talked about is if both the Bears and the Sox do something that doesn't involve the ISFA, that is a whole lot of tax money that all of the sudden can be redirected for something else. We will see if they both happen, but I think Illinois becomes more open to negotiations on other things if they can redirect those ticket taxes to something else.

The public aspects of this are a lot less important if the park itself is self financed. All you need from the state is potentially infrastructure and/or a property tax negotiation.

I can't see Moore coming back.

And yet, as I said, here starts an expensive project doing just that, with the end goal of a stadium going up on this site, almost as if that it can be done on the 78 site.

Because if he is good, he is leaving in two years anyway, so you get what you can get for him.

Not to mention the less separation there is between the players, the most chance of negotiating some savings and pushing it out to multiple picks over the draft. You obviously take "your guy", but if you can save a couple of million in the process, that is an extra 2nd round pick's worth of money. It could allow you to push a pick in the 20's down to the 2nd round, and it could still leave you enough extra money from other savings to add another HS pick at the end of the draft or after round 11.

This is a good thing, despite the belief of some.

We rode Robert from a Ferrari to a 86 Toyota Corolla with 500,000 miles on it.

DRINK!

Then the world is probably ending.

Too bad we didn't do that in 2024 when we took Hagen Smith instead of Konnor Griffin.

SEE HE WAS RIGHT!!!

It's great to see I don't need to reply for days, and these same ridiculous arguments keep happening.

I actually ran into the guy randomly like twice. Once in the basement of the Hyatt Regency waiting to get into a Soxfest, and then about a year ago, he was on a plane to NYC with me.

Nice

DRINK!

Jerry: GET ME GETZ RIGHT NOW!!!

Still would love to hear what happened to the Yankees.

Castellanos to SD

Yeah look, I could even see getting the LAST guy into the deal confused a LOT easier than the headliner. You are right that Acunas name had been in the rumor mill since the first Mets rumor reporting. He is 100% the guy they should have studied the most and in excruciating detail. If the last guy, who was a newly drafted 12th round pick from a non-baseball school was the one you mixed up, it would have been more understandable. Not great mind you, but lack of exposure, recent pro, last guy in a deal could come from a list of guys, or even be the guy added in last minute to sufficiently sweeten a deal to close it. Acuna is the headliner. He even has MLB ABs, not to mention the YEARS of MiLB stuff. He should be all over you analytics studies. He's the reason you made the deal. He's the reason you picked this deal instead of a better talent offer, but including cash, to the Reds. He's the reason you might have taken a lesser Mets offer instead of including cash. Acuna is the guy you can't miss on, and you are making a literal back of baseball card mistake on? And not one person in the organization fixes is after 4 times? If he really doesn't do research into the work his people underneath him are doing in a trade, to the point where he doesn't know the players he is getting, why is he the GM?

Well Soxtalk knew Acuna hadn't been a switch hitter, so +1.

Well damn, I thought this was about the poster.

No he is not going to do the ground work here. He isn't doing the scouting or the analytics work here. He is, however, expected to gather the results of said groundwork and study it and know it before making a deal. Just because he didn't DO the actual gruntwork here, doesn't mean he wouldn't be studying the results of said work.

I expect Ray to do more research into Soxtalk posters than I do Getz into the players he aquires.