southsider2k5

Take Rodon at 5/150 and Nimmo at 5/110, or right around their estimates. Give Rodon another shoulder or TJS injury and/or Nimmo a fall back to his previous three years worth of games played and those are disasters of contracts.

At full market contracts with their injury histories? That is big time risk.

Unless I had some good feeling on what the problem was last year, I wouldn't spend a lot on talent either. If this really is a worst case scenario adding talent to this mess is a gigantic waste of time and resources. 1 year deals, sure. Top of the market long term deals? Nah. The deals I would add would need to be movable. With there being a non-zero chance of this being a complete failure, don't send good money after bad. Find some defensive pieces and more innings? Sure. You don't want to do anymore harm either.

As I said before, you don't really have a choice. Tony and his boys burned this down to the ground where there is no value to be had almost anywhere. You let your most consistent hitter walk for free anyway. Your best bet for the future is letting your foundational guys see if they can rebound to the point where they are good again and/or worth something again.Maybe one or two of them rebounds and the rest are really done, which gives you the basis for a rebuild. Maybe things go back to normal because Tony was the worst possible scenario. Maybe everything really is a 5 standard deviation worst case scenario. But you don't really have a choice if you want to get the most value out of this mess.

So really it is 2/20 or 1/12.

I am really excited to see if that Vera led grouping can start to do something as they hit the more advanced minors such as Birmingham.

It's Indiana. You'd be hog feed.

His numbers after the ban are above. The timing doesn't match

The timing does not match.

This is a middle schoolers dick joke dream.

Yeah, that's the problem. I mean absolutely has trade value, but we have nothing in place to replace him with. Maybe you fill say the OF hole, but that just opens up a hole in the SP. Unless you feel that the combination of spending is better spent with the new player + the signee, versus Gio and the free agent market, you still have a hole. Maybe one set of positions is cheaper on the trade market vs the free agent market so you do the deal so that you come out ahead on the combination of the moves.

It's like Tony LaRussa holding down the dugout.

What a tank year.

If it ever happens, you should be here. I have some killer one offs.

$64 million for Sal Perez IS one of the worst contracts in baseball.

Well, if these pitchers have that kind of value, it totally changes the value composition for a guy like Lucas Giolito, even coming off of a pretty mediocre year. I will also just mention that his defense really cost him last year, and that wouldn't be the case in a lot of other places who could bid for him.

I am sure this is a useful distraction as to what is actually going on, but notice this is 100% speculation.

For the record, the Sox virtual garage sale is garbage. The technology they are using to run it has a hamster in a wheel. It is impossible to check out without the damned thing crashing.