Harry Chappas

This is spot on. If someone is 10/350 then you walk away.....the big 4 and Angels are out.....teams will throw numbers in and the Sox need to be prepared to beat it.These guys are 26 years old. With the way things are playing out now with super 2 and suppressing guys in the minors, this is not happening again in this rebuild. The timing to close this deal is this offseason. The longer you let teams think about it the more I think a team may go nuts. I had not felt this way but it doesn't seem to be ending.

Town hall was awesome......Hahn very confident in signing machado got kopech autograph and anderson hall of fame seminar was awesome.....maybe best seminar I'd been to and I've been to just about every soxfest hawk in white track suit

The Yankees are in at 7/$175 maybe 8/$200 but anyone that thinks he signs for that is a bit soft. Until either guy signs every team is in it to a degree it is a dumb narrative that keeps getting tweeted. Cubs are in on Harper if he signs for 1/$45M....if the White Sox let that happen they are beyond stupid. I don't think a team now decides hey, let's go with 10/350 after being out of it all winter...but then maybe I ma the one that is a little dumb. No team is driving the market and that is why both guys are unsigned.

I hope they take hill and cash and its someone like laz rivera hansen is still my guy and bush could be tatis part 2

And a reliable one at that.

Anderson is a better SS. Anderson's only flaw is that he literally cannot take a walk....unfortunately it is huge flaw.

The Sox don't need to begetter than Cleveland they just need to be better than the second wildcard team.

I believe i heard reds pitching coach was his pitching coach at vanderbilt.

Btw nbc is a national network ....cub network is regional thing.....and its 5-6 games a year.....maybe a lot of ND sports coverage of ancillary games.

Depaul sports is my guess and a lot of Bears coverage maybe some type of offical network bs thing

My $.02......machado is close to signing and this is a move to make as harper is not an option

Maybe Machado 8/$280 and Harper 2/$100 or something like that. Phils may offer that to Harp then can go after Trout.

The nats offer was before corbin and after reading more on nats my guess is they are well under 300 now.

Well this explains why Levine was confused and thought the present value of a dollar was greater than the future value of a dollar

Shouldn't you be waiting in line for the convention to start tomorrow so you can personally welcome Daniel Descalso to Chicago?

Why??? Seemed like a pretty humble honest thought.

What makes next year any better when there are some pitchers out there and a couple of third baseman one just as good......and a year older.

Why? If the Sox came out now and said they have an offer for 8/$240 on the table it would make Olney look like a fool. Olney has stated all winter the Sox have no business in this process and ESPN itself cannot be too enamored with the idea of the White Sox signing either. The Sox cannot really state anything but Olney leaking White Sox information is ludicrous as he pays them no mind. Nightengale put out the lowball to offset Gomez and Olney just trolled the situation and looks like an asshat to me. My guess is Gomez got the information from Machado directly and the White SOx used their sources to offset it and temper any hope from mystery team. I beleive the Gomez report as it is the onyl one that makes sense.

I think Olney iwas in essence trolling for ESPN

It is not the top of the cap that is the problem it is the floor and teams pocketing revenue sharing money as profit. If you make a team spend $100M that money goes to these middle of the road free agents.

If the Phillies offer more so will the Sox....the Phillies have to offer more though. Again everyone thought, I included, the Dodgers, Nats, cubs, Yankees would all hang in there and be in the mix. The Yankees have picked up two infielders this off-season...one that was not on the cheap. If those teams are out you need to now find a team that is contending that is now going to find $25M a year in their budget.......is that team out there.....there are two agents that are hoping so and one is most likely the Phillies but they have made some moves this offseason already and were outbid by Corbin Think about the Reds, Padres, Pirates, Braves, Brewers, etc. if they were told it would take $300M to get one of these guys and they went in other directions do they now pivot back? The White Sox could have had $280M sitting there...the agents balked....the White Sox pulled it back and now the other teams that could been in the mix have moved on afte grabbing their Donaldsons, Corbins, Puigs etc.

It's about being gotten at 7/175...if he does sign for that or even 7$210M, baseball is screwed seven ways to Sunday. Jason Heyward signed for 8/$184.......Machado at 8/$240 is low but fair Look if the Sox get him at 7/$200 nobody will complain but the sport is then obviously going in a direction that will not benefit us as fans or the MLBPA This isn't like buying an undervalued house because the market crashed this is GM's crashing a market. Guaranteeing a salary cap and floor in the next negotiation.

If the big market teams are not touching the luxury tax it is Harper and Machado....the Phillies and the White Sox If the Olney tweet is correct, I am guessing the White Sox were around $250M at their original meetings with each and are now dropping their offers and planting or at least not refuting this stuff to prove that the market is not there for either guy. If the Yankees, Dodgers, cubs and Nationals are really out of the picture, there is no market for teams looking to spend $175M+

I think the Sox have a strong and fair offer that is 10's of millions below what both agents want. These mystery teams will check in and check right out. The hope is that some team will get anxious or be able to move enough money to open a spot, Teams will jump in at $180-$200M but teams looking to spend to $250M+ are not coming out of thin air but the agents and players are hoping for this to happen. This era of GM's not giving 35+ year players $35M/per is new but these two agents/players are hoping for a break in the sensible actions. The old baseball Hawkeroo GM is not employed any longer and the agents are now realizing it. The NBA is star driven, the NFL is QB/pass rush driven....in the MLB you start 1 of 5 games, bat 4 times a game or pitch 1 inning every other day so your impact is rather diluted and the Ivy league guys have figured this out while the baseball guys used to just spend and spend to fill spots. These guys are worth $35M a year but not for more then 8 years and that is the cold reality.

So Jim Boylen is guaranteeing the Bulls a legitimate shot at Zion, that is all we can ask for. Do the Bulls then trade that shot at Zion for Anthony Davis?