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Would like to see them come off the 7 years and push up to 8/$275 or so. There’s slowplaying and there’s lowballing. Let’s not open this back up to shorter-term bidding.

Love the thread title. I think this is going to take a while...

3) They renegotiate to keep him, much like Clayton Kershaw recently did.

A 3 year opt-out occurs after his age 29 season, likely to be preferred by agent and player.

Fair point.

As I said, I think it’ll be a bit of a novel approach. I don’t anticipate it being your standard opt-out. I think it’ll be tied to some kind of team performance or something.

My thoughts on the Machado negotiations: https://theloopsports.com/2019/01/13/how-boras-and-harper-will-make-manny-machado-nearly-50-million-this-january/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

If that’s what it takes

Nah

Which is also being modeled

Stick around JP, I enjoy your posts

This is precisely what the Sox are modeling as well.

That’s Scott Boras talking

So we overpaid him by a million?

I get a kick out of the new topic title

I don’t think it’s really worth all the fretting. Lets wait and see if it results in any other signings. Maybe we aren’t competing against the Yankees here...

Yeah, I have no idea what the Phillies are up to.

The Yankees part is solid

He’s referring to Nightengale’s article from the other day. Wouldn’t put too much stock into the part about the Sox’ offer.

He’s apparently still insisting the Yankees will not start Tulo at ss

Welcome!

Just saw B/W on a plane to Chicago sitting between two big dudes

Pure guess here: Kelvin Herrera.

It’s also something he won’t ever need to share...

Ok guys, not saying rich people don’t fly Southwest. Just saying Manny Machado isn’t flying commercial to Chicago right now. If it was for any reason we want it to be, the Sox simply wouldn’t allow it to happen.