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Technically this is a network hire, but since the teams own the network...

And you are wanting to put performance racing tires on an 88 Yugo.

Certainly can't go worse than Getz trying to win.

So many DFAs, so little time.

Steve Stone is a bitter has been.

I found Chris Getz's burner account.

Who Thorpe? He hasn't had a MLB call up yet.

This. Plus, why? He is going to see more contact at the major league level, and he will have the leagues worst defense behind him. What are we going to learn from that? What is he going to learn from that? There is nothing wrong with him spending a few more months in Birmingham with a club that is actually good, and letting him experience some winning and quality teammates. He will have plenty of time in Chicago, assuming he can handle it.

The Blackhawks basically just fired and replaced their PbP guy today. That isn't going to help out John one bit.

People say stuff like this, but essentially no one is turning this job down, especially someone still climbing the ladder like Getz. This might be his only shot at the big time, of course he is taking it, even if the prospects are awful. Guys like Theo Epstein? Sure they could turn down a job. Guys like Chris Getz? Not going to happen.

It kind of makes sense. If the Sox weren't going to spend on top end offense, or top end starting pitching, you might as well try to build a pen that could run 5 to 6 inning game instead of needing starters to go 6-7 to avoid your crappy middle relief. Of course today the Sox have neither starters, nor a pen who can hold a lead, so big progress on that front.

If you want to use inflation as an example, the Sox signed Albert Belle to a 5/$55 deal in November of 1996. Even if you adjusted that deal not using baseball salary inflation, but using just regular old inflation, that deal would be 5/$108 million today.

That isn't really insider information, that is their feelings. Big difference.

And now to go to step 2, the Sox aren't going to be the team that gets finishers by free agency.

The wild thing is that the Dodgers have over $3 million left. I can't say that I ever remember them NOT spending on the international market.

It has quite literally been demonstrated by the teams actions. The are at the very bottom of MLB when it comes to chasing premium talent with big contracts. Having a lot of middle of the road contracts on a larger payroll team is not the same thing.

The biggest deal of all time is $700 million. The White Sox biggest deal is about 10.5% of that total The 10th biggest deal of all, time is $325 million. The White Sox biggest deal is about 23% of that total. The 25th biggest deal of all time is $240 million. The White Sox biggest deal is right about 31% of that total. The 30th biggest deal of all time is $200 million. The White Sox biggest deal is about 38% of that total. The 50th biggest deal of all time is $162 million. The White Sox biggest deal is just under 46% of that total. Let me say that again. to get to the White Sox biggest deal EVER, that is less than half of the 50th biggest deal ever. In fact the White Sox are one of two teams in MLB HISTORY never to sign a $100 million deal. I literally can't find a ranking that goes on far enough to find where the Sox biggest contract ranks in MLB history, because no table out there goes to that small of a contract when talking about biggest ever. There is one team in all of MLB who has yet to sign a deal which was bigger than the Benitendi deal, in Oakland. You can say you that the Sox are willing spend all you want, but the history of what has actually been done shows that is a lie.

He only seems to be willing to pay a decent free agent if they are on the cheap end. Even the Machado negotiations were tens of millions less than what his market value ended up being. They never bothered to make an offer to Harper. They publicly laughed at Ohtani. He hasn't actually done it, so it is a fair statement to say he won't based on exactly this history. He has played at the top of the market like twice in the 40+ years he has been here, and really not at all since Albert Belle.

Yeah but in this case we are talking about a difference in the nine figures in all likelihood. Again, look at Tyler Glasnow. Dude has a career high 120 innings, and only been over 100 innings twice since 2016. He got a 5 year deal at $27 million PER SEASON. If Garrett has gotten this far without an extension it is a sign to me that he is willing to wait it out and bet on himself. If he sees a 5/150 type deal as a possibility, why would he settle for way less?

This is the key word. Pay. He didn't actually PAY Wheeler anything, because he never came here.

Garrett has somewhere around half of that amount coming into the next two years regardless through the arbitration system. A 3/30 type deal is like maybe $15-18ish million for the 3rd year in extra money for him over what the system is going to give him regardless of his status the next two years. If you are going to get him to sign a 3 year deal it is probably going to be closer to $50 million than $30 million.

You don't HAVE to spend a lot in free agency. Look at Cleveland and Tampa. But IF you go that route, your player development and drafting have to be A+ level, and our has been hot garbage. We seem to be decent at finding players in other systems who are closer to finished products, but our development has been mediocre at best. If you aren't getting players internally, you have to them from somewhere. Well I guess the 3rd alternative is to be the worst team in baseball/baseball history.