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Once again...unless you pay 15-20% premium over contenders, you're going to see players with better options heading elsewhere. Who wants to wait until 2029? Someone like Michael Conforto is who the Sox will unfortunately end up with. Maybe the risk at this point is low enough for Getz to bite.

But put a Harvard Michigan Kellogg sheen to covering up the fact he doesn't really know anything about actually identifying/evaluation anything but extensions and risk mitigation. We can hear that from investment advisors for free.

Fairbanks is a great example. There are 100-125 relievers on the market now. Arguably not worth even $11 to a small are the team. But the playoffs the last 2-3 years has only further demonstrated how critical their impact on the postseason. Look at the Mason Miller deal last year. Fairbanks suddenly becomes incredibly valuable on an affordable contract to contenders if he's both healthy and productive. Same exact teams looking at 12-15ish reliable arms drives prices into the strotosphere.

$135-150 million or thereabouts is the very minimum for a playoff team, like MIL and Detroit last year.

It's not those. It's ones like Benintendi LaRoche M.Cabrera Rios Keuchel Danks Encarnacion Lynn...choosing the exactly wrong players for those mostly 2-3 year deals. Then those numbers add up to block other moves, or the Moncada/Jimenez/Robert extensions. Talent/character evaluation. Getting only 2/4 years from Grandal.

Thanks...

Rumored Nick Kurtz extension will likely be the first. https://www.mlb.com/news/athletics-candidates-for-big-contract-extensions If he won't agree...still have SS Jacob Wilson and C/DH/1B Shea Langaliers.

A-Rod. Tanaka. First two.

In what alternative universe can you spend just $100 million (subtracting the Robert salary) in this year's FA to add 20-30 fWAR? The going rate would be $140-210 million (at $7 million/fWAR) million and far likelier $160-240 million in this year's free agency. Let's just pretend you added Cedric Mullins for $7 million and traded Robert..and that Mullins is still a 2-3 fWAR player. That $100 will only provide you ONE five fWAR pitcher or hitter. Still not anywhere close to a competitive roster unless Braden Montgomery also wins RoY, Colson hits 50 bombs and Teel at least 20-25. That puts you around let's say 73-77 wins. What is the point of talking about a hypoethical that's completely unrealistic? The reason I misinterpreted what he said is that there's simply no way to fathom that level of spending under this current ownership. It's just pie in the sky numbers.

It's all irrelevant anyway. It will be a small miracle to end the 2026 season at $90-100 million. $80-85 million feels a lot more realistic.

In what alternative universe can you spend just $28-48 million (subtracting the Robert salary) in this year's FA to add 20-30 fWAR? The going rate would be $140-210 million (at $7 million/fWAR) added on top of the existing $57-77 million payroll (depending on whether Robert is included or not and far likelier $160-240 million in this year's FA. Let's just pretend you added Cedric Mullins for $7 million and traded Robert..and that Mullins is still a 2-3 fWAR player. You now have just $36 million to spend on the 2026 roster to get to $100 million that will only provide you ONE five fWAR pitcher or hitter. Still not anywhere close to a competitive roster unless Braden Montgomery also wins RoY, Colson hits 50 bombs and Teel at least 20-25. That puts you around let's say 73-77 wins...

Should we bring back your well-stoked and oft repeated theory that Elko and his promotion would lead to a considerable boost in non friends and family comped ticket sales for the Sox???

It doesn't serve any purpose unless the White Sox actually sign him...it's more just joking about how the Sox have completely forgotten they're actually in the ENTERTAINMENT business. Signing Wisdom accomplishes less than nothing. Just makes the Sox even more of a laughing stock. And Bruce Levine's less relevant than Phil Rogers posting from Texas now. At least they trusted him with the Baseball America Top Ten Sox prospect lists for a decade.

All over yahoo. Unless there are two people with your same exact beliefs and same exact screen names in the US. Possible but highly unlikely. 1/10,000 odds.

Bruce Levine probably has to generate X number of tweets or engagements per week. He's just doing a favor to one of his favorites and likely an "inside source" when he played for the Cubs...easy enough to bring his name up in social media. A shout out to agents that he's currently available to sign stateside. Not even Getz is stupid enough to sign him for a lot less than he would make going back to Korea. Clear enough for you Eddy? Or you require further elucidation?

And when have you ever said anything meaningful or memorable? A decade ago. Maybe. I've probably forgotten more than you know about baseball. Please stick to politics.

Why doesn't he mention signing Kyle Tucker instead? They're equally meaningful to the the next Sox playoff team.

https://northernstar.info/117608/sports/column-the-chicago-white-sox-are-the-laughing-stock-of-baseball/ Apparently it is...

"Patrick Wisdom will be playing for KBO’s Kia Tigers in 2025. This is, I think, a great landing spot for Wisdom, who turned 33 in August. He ought to hit quite a few home runs in Korea, and will probably make more money than he would have in MLB in 2025. He’s got a friendly personality and could very well become a fan favorite over there. Wisdom hit 84 home runs in a Cubs uniform, which is tied for 37th on the all-time Cubs list with Ron Cey and Moose Moryn. He hit 28 in just 106 games in 2021, setting a single-season record for Cubs rookies and finishing fourth in NL Rookie of the Year voting. In the summer of 2022, Wisdom hit a couple of colossal home runs to Waveland Avenue. Here’s some analysis of those distances. He always had that sort of prodigious power, but could never hit for a high enough BA or cut down on the strikeouts enough to stay as an everyday regular. Kind of a poor man’s Mark Reynolds." bleedcubbieblue.com Trying to sell a handful of tickets to Cubs' fans that can no longer afford to attend games at Wrigley?

At least A's only two seasons away from a brand new stadium in a "vibrant" city...instead of morbidly counting down with a death march.

Can they really take Alabama over Miami and ND after this lackluster result? Miami beat ND, and the best win for ND was over USC. Bama has a boatload of Top 25 wins and are going to be penalized for getting an extra game compared to A&M Miss OU, etc. Duke/VA still on tap...could bring JMU into play as well. https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/georgia-annihilates-alabama-in-sec-championship-possibly-knocking-tide-out-of-cfp-entirely-002357320.html "With one 28-7 victory, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart rewrote the entire narrative surrounding himself and Alabama. Holding a woeful 1-7 record against the Tide coming into Saturday, Smart deployed a combination of speed, deception, trickery and flat-out bust-your-face football to not just beat Alabama, but humiliate them, too. This is the kind of win that galvanizes a program for the rest of the year, the kind of loss that leaves scars that last across seasons."

Jays probably headed for a $300 million payroll... "It has already been a busy offseason for the Blue Jays, who have signed Ponce and Dylan Cease to multi-year contracts, and Shane Bieber is also staying in the rotation after declining to opt out of the final year of his deal. This puts the Jays in line for approximately a $267.9MM payroll and a $282.5MM luxury tax number (projections courtesy of RosterResource), and this is before Toronto addresses its lineup or bullpen needs heading into the 2026 campaign." mlbtraderumors.com

Blue Jays are also looking to trade Jose Berrios. Getz won't be answering that particular phone call.

When Hoskins Tellez and Bell are out of your price range..