iamshack

I skimmed through the posts above, but there seems to be some thought that the leak is purposeful?

Anyone who thinks the Sox give any mind to tweets of Dan Clark is incorrect in their thinking. This is not a purposeful leak. This is someone picking the odds-on favorite and hoping it leads to credibility.

As to your last paragraph, I don’t believe they had that luxury.

Look, anything is possible. But if the Cubs sign Harper it’s because 1) they don’t give a shit about 2-3 years from now; 2) they blew through the tax this year anyway; and 3) now they don’t have money to make the upgrades they actually need to make

Cmon, dude. This is more of the same nonsense coming from a lazy Chicago media that knows jack shit about anything.

Well he’s made no secret of trying to recruit Manny. He’s embraced his role since the moment we acquired him

It really doesn’t matter whether he left Tuesday or Wednesday. Once he left and took the other visits, the point was moot.

I can say with a pretty good degree of confidence that this is not the case.

Not sure how opt-outs are handled in re: the tax, but front loading wouldn’t minimize aav...

Dodgers have provided payroll projections to investors for 2019-2022. Front-loading a Harper deal would, at the very least, make the first year of their projections very difficult to meet. Obviously these are non-binding, but they were also released with full knowledge of this year’s FA market. Could have been done as a bit of a smokescreen, but I don’t believe that. All that said, if Harper does go to LA, I’d expect there will be a significant opportunity for the Sox to take on some of their cash in exchange for useful pieces. I agree with Y2Jimmy though...i don’t see Boras taking a deal that’s well below Stanton’s total value.

I don’t think Anthopolous has any interest in 10 years on anyone.

If the Yankees were offering $400m, there would be a lot more smoke

Every team is going to be told (by his agent) Manny wants to play for them.

The fuck?

Thanks!

My take on Harper/Machado

Not buying 6 teams. I think that is agentspeak.

No, I meant signing Machado AND Harper

This is idiotic, but does them signing Machado help convince Harper?

Heyward was signed after they were well on their way. Lester was a big signing, but nowhere near Harper or Machado.

Bob staying Abreu going nowhere.

No, then they need to look to the trade market. Look, I get the disappointment, but they are literally doing everything they can to land one of these guys. They need to be applauded for that. If we can’t lure these guys here, we stay the course, and we look at the trade market. If things begin to pan out with our prospects, other FA will come. Neither the Astros nor the Cubs landed some super FA to reach sustained success. It’s not a prerequisite for us to do so. But it would certainly help.

They’ll be stuck with a more expensive roster? Really? There is no downside.

I agree with you that this might have been something that was shared with us as something that would increase our chances. But to be honest, I wouldn’t put it past them to have just taken a risk and done it without provocation. We’re talking $350m here folks. This is $9m. It’s nothing.

Precisely. What the hell is wrong with you people?