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Foster Griffin, another pitcher coming back from Asia. Former Royals' #1 pick, will land somewhere between Ponce and Kay on the salary scale. https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/chicago-cubs-trade-free-agent-rumors-ideas/201899/cubs-free-agent-target-foster-griffin

Jayden Reed and Watson add some needed variety to that offense...but Kraft injury has taken out the fulcrum.

Thought we didn't help out divisional rivals? Doesn't say what KC would be willing to give up. Probably Bergert OR Kolek. Knowing their fixation for overhyped utility players, probably India instead. Btw Baty has four more years of control, through 2029. Service Time 2.088 MiLB Options 1 Free Agent 2030 Arb Eligible 2027

Does he now possess the requisite velo for that matter?

Bigger bases and fewer/limited throwovers has led to more action on the base paths as well. WBC in general keeps getting bigger and bigger. Huge increase in NPB players has led to record tv viewership in Japan (that almost eclipses the US at 40% of population) with majority "breakfast time" games.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/dodgers-manager-dave-roberts-says-hed-be-all-right-with-mlb-salary-cap-after-record-415-million-payroll-025935214.html

If Schwarber actually leaves the Phillies AND signs next week...that would be a bold prediction.

Baty had a 3.1 bWAR last year. Mets will keep him as their starter at 3B unless they sign Bregman. And Semien at 2B really pushes out Acuna more so than anyone else. Plus, he only has 3-4 more expensive years of control remaining. Would also push out either Vargas OR Chase Meidroth...who some protection systems expect to lead the Sox in fWAR.

Maybe he can beat out Canario...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/college-football-program-may-turn-090000833.html KState fb coach retires with $35 million and 7 years remaining on contract

Didn’t realize Michael Kopech was finally hitting FA this year.

Miles Mikolas (37, 2.2) Nestor Cortes (31, 2.1) Andrew Heaney (35, 1.9) Michael Lorenzen (34, 1.9) Jose Quintana (37, 1.9) Albert Suárez (36, 1.8) Aaron Civale (31, 1.8) Chris Paddack (30, 1.8) Tyler Anderson (36, 1.6) Jon Gray (34, 1.4) Frankie Montas (33, 1.3) Griffin Canning (30, 1.0) Chris Flexen (31, 1.0) Marcus Stroman (35, 1.0) Max Scherzer (41, 1.0) Austin Gomber (32, 0.9) Cal Quantrill (31, 0.9) Dustin May (28, 0.8) Paul Blackburn (32, 0.6) Jordan Montgomery (33, 0.6) John Means (33, 0.5) Alex Cobb (38, 0.3) Germán Márquez (31, 0.2) Tomoyuki Sugano (36, 0.1) Carson Spiers (28, 0.0) José Ureña (34, 0.0) José Urquidy (31, 0.0) Tony Gonsolin (32, -0.1) Mike Clevinger (35, -0.2) Wade Miley (39, -0.2) Walker Buehler (31, -0.4) Tommy Henry (28, -0.6) Anthony DeSclafani (36, -0.7) Roddery Muñoz (26, -1.9) Drew Anderson (32, N/A) Kohei Arihara (33, N/A) Foster Griffin (30, N/A) Kona Takahashi (29, N/A) -- posted by NPB club on Nov. 20 So you're on board with Dustin May??? Blackburn has also been mentioned. Marquez? Gonsolin? Who is/are your realistic target/s?

Mortgage fraud!!! If the Brewers have the season they did, including postseason and increased season ticket sales for 2026 and yet still can't sustain a $136 million payroll...without trading Peralta, just not sure what to say. OFC they have traded both Hader and Devin Williams the last couple of years and survived, losing Adames, etc., but one of those seasons their veteran trades really knocked them back. Some argue that Woodruff taking the QO threw their off season plans off completely, but it's really nuts to trade Peralta and/or Megill, especially with the Cubs and Cards taking steps back. Rangers Unlikely To Have Payroll Room For J.T. Realmuto 2025/12/rangers-unlikely-to-have-payroll-room-for-j-t-realmuto.html

When they say looking for another starting pitcher...they don't mention that it's going to be strictly Tier D/E.

If the VPN is turned off, the Chinese firewall blocks everything on Twitter. If the VPN is turned on, the site turns into a slow crawl and constantly double posts. I'm guessing at that time I couldn't even see the embedded post, so that's why I was responding as if he hadn't signed yet. WestEddy Posted yesterday at 08:04 AM "This guy's name was bandied about as an option for the White Sox, in places." That is all the information that I had to respond to because the VPN was turned off. Unless I am supposed to interpret your post that he a had ALREADY signed because of your use of WAS there.

Some people just want to find things to complain about. Obviously we all are paid so well for our various posts online lol...

Because there is a 14 hour difference. So basically I'm supposed to check SoxTalk every hour and then check MLB Trade Rumors and then double check all the time stamps when it was the third item from the top of the board when I looked at it here this morning on mlbtr???????????????????? Tell me why none of the free agent signings by other teams are not being posted in Diamond Club. Reds ink closer Emilio Pagán, have more work to do on 2026 roster Story by Pat Brennan, Cincinnati Enquirer • 1h

Excuse me for sleeping in China when the signing happened.....maybe we should just pin the MLBTradeRumors site at the top of the page and not have any free agent discussions since none will actually involve the White Sox. So all should technically be in Diamond Club...which is a veritable hub of activity these days.

Where is the offseason signing thread????? Everything gets announced all over the place in SoxTalk because almost no one looks at Diamond Club anymore. So shouldn't there be one thread where ALL the FA signing would be updated? 90-95% of them are ending up so read across all these various threads. A couple of people in recent days were speculating about possibly SIGNING Pagan, yet it wasn't significant enough to warrant its own thread because the odds are the White Sox won't sign a "significant" free agent...meaning over $5 million per season for them.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/#post-876580 Reds resigned closer Emilio Pagan 2/$20 million high leverage but non closer for most of his career prior to 2025

Not counting on Colorado to ever come out of Dodgers’ division any time soon. Even a WC seems far-fetched. And DePodesta has been away from the sport for a full decade.

Of course, the clear and obvious difference is the Rockies have always been a profitable and diversified positive revenue-generating enterprise regardless of their on-field product or one playoff victory since Monfort took over as control person fifteen seasons ago. So the pressure to actually win has pretty much been non existent, even now after 43-119 and the worst RS/RA differential ever recorded. "Coors Field is a gem of a ballpark, and the Rockies pack it more often than you’d expect for a divisional doormat. The team has finished in the top half of the league in attendance per game every season since 2008 and did so again in 2025, despite the abysmal on-field performance. One former player jokingly described the yard as “a beer garden with a ball field.”

and changes.. Just thought it would be interesting to compare/contrast. So many similarities are quite obvious, because that's all Sox fans read about the last three seasons...what was wrong or rotten. "DePodesta’s hire was surprising, especially given that the Rockies were reportedly deep into talks with Cleveland’s Matt Forman and Arizona’s Amiel Sawdaye, two well-regarded executives with real influence in their respective organizations. But the man who inspired Jonah Hill’s character in “Moneyball” is, at the very least, an outside voice, something that couldn’t be said about Colorado’s previous two top baseball ops execs. The task ahead of DePodesta, Byrnes and whoever else heeds the call is downright monumental. This is an organization in disarray, depressingly behind the times.” Two separate sources recounted a story from the beginning of the 2024 season, when the team prohibited players at multiple levels from throwing bullpens in front of trackman units, mobile devices that capture and display pitch data in real time. “I remember somebody more or less tricked an intern into giving us a TruMedia password,” a former Rockies minor-league player recounted, referencing the data analytics platform used by a majority of MLB clubs. “And it was just, like, one TruMedia password spread across a pretty good chunk of the org’s players so that they could see game data." https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/whats-ahead-for-the-rockies-can-an-mlb-team-stuck-in-the-past-finally-join-the-modern-game-011248598.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/the-value-of-risk-in-mlb-why-front-offices-have-become-more-risk-averse-and-what-it-means-for-the-trade-market-213559935.html The value of risk (mitigation) in prospect trades and why it might be shifting back again Sale for Moncada trade cited, everything but Orioles' recent "prospect hugging" level of status quo inactivity

SoxMachine and Margalus has been throwing around this same $90 million figure. Right now they’re projecting at $67.5ish million, but just not seeing them adding another $20+ million. It’s not like Kay or even O'Hearn would sell a single season ticket package in and of themselves…nor would they guarantee even 70 wins. Fans have just felt burned by so many B/C free agents the last fifteen years or so that they’re eventually going to have to do something that demonstrates a TANGIBLE and sustainable commitment to winning long term, not just 1-2 year deals or ones that have either club or mutual options.