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To get the so-called fireballer instead of the finesse guy. I remember Zobrist in particular torching Koch, or was it Carl Crawford? Someone on the Rays hit a game winning homer in the Trop Dome.

Poppy Sox hijacked your account, pal/bro?

That darned trade has now cost us roughly $20 million in payroll flexibility...between Kimbrel and Harrison's salaries, minus Madrigal and Heuer. (Can't remember whether Cesar Hernandez had a small buyout or not.) Or just about the exact amount Conforto was projected to receive...

That ship has definitely sailed...unless Hahn is now GMing based on fan sentiment and Score callers' rants.

What would a "figurative" Communist/Socialist be?

If Madrigal becomes a consistent 3-4 fWAR player for the Cubs over the next 5 years, it will definitely be Kimbrel...

We'll also be hearing a lot of "sunk costs" this summer in reference to Keuchel and Kimbrel, the K&K Boys. That might even ruin my positive youthful memories of K&K Hardware back in Bettendorf, lol. They sponsored Mustang or Bronco League teams every summer.

What is your position on JR losing the team? A bridge still way too far, lol? There's too much religious and Nazi irony flying around the world today (including from members of our own Congress), to the point it's losing any remaining shock value.

Profar or CJ Abrams.

Seems about 5-10x more likely for athletes in close proximity, just from clubhouse alone. Especially football, hockey and basketball.

There's also no way in hell Giolito will undervalue himself and provide a hometown discount, either. It's different negotiating with players who are creating generational wealth for their family the very first time and largely desire security. Giolito is in a different place.

He made something like $15-18 million with the White Sox. On the free agent market, just last season's fWAR from Rodon would blow that out of the water. Of course, we all feel he underachieved, but they also didn't have the right coaches to get the most out of his talent, either.

We forgot to include the Indians…who managed to play us evenly last year with the #30 payroll. Emmanuel Clase is the #4 closer, internally developed, shockingly.

Throwing hard already but not 100% effectively…

$6-8 million now going the other way…if not $10 million. They might as well start casting the Silver Slugger Award for Nick Madrigal…because the law of terrible trades is they never entirely go away. Might as well force him to pitch well enough during the regular season he recovers to 75 cents or 80 cents on the dollar in trade value.

Maybe the Japanese or Korean leagues would overpay the Sox for a future HoFer?

Tyler Danish pitching for BOS against Minny, third appearance already this spring. Blast from the past.

Here’s a trade… Kimbrel and Adolfo for either Caratini or Jorge Alfaro…Padres have four catchers including Nola and Campusano. Money would go to SD if they gave up Caratini instead of Alfaro. Alfaro and Adolfo out of options, but both could be carried on MLB rosters the first month while at 28. And that would at least improve the backup catching spot and finally offload Kimbrel’s $16 million. Then again, they might want to hold onto Collins’ LH bat for yet another year, just because…

Daniel Fernando Tatis, 15 year old motorcycle daredevil and likely unable to hit worse than Elijah even if blindfolded.

Unless 2-3 big market teams just happen to have major injuries or bullpens imploding in the early season…and Kimbrel is both healthy and performing well. Wouldn’t want to put odds on all those things breaking the Sox way, though.

Right, they went to an elite Catholic school in Portland, I know the son had 800 on Math SAT and their mom’s from ATL/Peachtree City. That makes a lot more sense, because that family all went to Northwestern, Princeton, Iowa Dental School. It’s like my plan for my son to eventually study in the US (first grade now in China), change to US citizenship…then attend Tsinghua or Jiao Tong/Shanghai as an intl student, which are sort of like Chinese versions of Cal Tech and MIT, for about $3000 USD. Then go to grad school anywhere in the world and pick up Spanish as third language somewhere in there. There are hundreds of thousands of students all fighting to get into those universities, with everything riding on one exam, the infamous 12th grade Gao Kao that makes or breaks your entire future, essentially.

At the rate we are going, they might have more luck in the real estate market (see Ricketts/Wrigleyville and JR’s roots) than in the MLB Free Agency Game. Because they really couldn’t do much worse if they deliberately tried…or just put a list of all the available players on the wall next to KW’s Big Board and Jeremy Haber simply threw darts while blind-folded and signed whatever players they hit on in order until they ran out of their allocated budget.

That’s also coincidentally the statue unveiling day for his apocalyptic post-season homer. I heard rumors they might have to relocate Uribe or Crede.

Battle of $500 million worth of Semien/Seager vs. Free Agents Only Their Mothers and White Sox Would Love

But the Braves did it!