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It's deliberately meant to elicit an emotional reaction and get one off their game. Internet banter. Can't take it all that seriously.

Not all alumni are like that, but that's fairly typical of those who go to Northwestern, Michigan and particularly Harvard Law School. The sarcastic joke about the Tatis trade is the most we're going to get out of him in terms of self-reflection.

https://www.eastvillagetimes.com/the-padres-and-michael-conforto-are-a-unique-fit/ Already went after Suzuki and Soler, so clearly in the market at a corner. Have experience in these competitive bidding situations with super agents. West Coast location...opportunities to spend significant time in SF, LA, Denver and Phoenix, better weather overall than Rust Belt teams. Went to Oregon State, but Mariners not a fit. GM under massive pressure to winthis year, can't blame another young manager with veteran Melvin in place.

Miguel Cabrera 8/$248 Justin Verlander 7/$180 Javier Baez 6/$140 Jordan Zimmermann 5/$110 Justin Verlander 5/$80 Victor Gonzalez 4/$68 Juan Gone turned down 8/$140, one of the dumbest contract moves in?history. Sal Perez 4/$82 Alex Gordon 4/$72 Gil Meche 5/$55

Hahn clearly was asking for too much...to the point where just paying that $16 million to Jansen made more sense. Therein lies the danger of being left without a seat when the music stops. Keeping in mind the Braves already won a WS with now former closer Will Smith. They might have the best pen in baseball if Kirby Yates can put it back together...with their battery of setup guys like Jackson and Minster.

Between the Yankees and Dodgers, they each just have one in the past 44 combined years....

Wickman was the best, maybe Sweeney second.

Except it would have meant it never got out there for public consumption in that case...as the conspiracy theory was to appear to be trying their best to sign him for the fanbase/PR without really wanting that to actually happen.

Unless they shock the world and sign Story for 2B, which would really render Harrison extraneous...

So we're right back to the 2005 team building approach, albeit with a younger core?

At least they're trying. Pittsburgh and Oakland should be folded.

Why are we seemingly obsessed with not going over the Grandal numbers? How can we be $20-30 million off the rest of baseball in our valuations?

Shocker. Marlins miss on Castellanos, settle for Soler. Padres jilted again. Added Avisail Garcia as well.

Ryan Sweeney and Wilson Betemit crushed spring, too. Didn't mean much.

Sheets is your primary DH now...would they be crazy enough to make Burger or Collins that?

Apparently everyone but the White Sox front office watched Vaughn and especially Sheets in RF.

Even if the argument is absorbing salary or relying on a massive jump from the farm system to do something at the TDL, it's not easier to pull off than making a move now. And you are more than likely mortgaging your future contention window.

QO to Rodon, get pick back at least Buy out Kimbrel Conforto to RF Rest of the money goes to a starter and one reliever...along with a veteran defense-first backup catcher. No way you have Harrison and Leury both rostered. Any SoxTalk poster could have come up with that simplistic plan.

There's your starter. That guy is not an inch taller than Madrigal, if we are being generous.

We always discover amazingly/confoundingly inefficient ways to spend "a few extra million bucks" anyway.

Supposedly, the Mets were willing to go to $110-120. Not sure how accurate that is.

So they can reallocate that $11 million to what quality of starter? Getting rid of Keuchel from the roster, too? That doesn't even leave room for another Leury/reliever of the day move.

In the meantime, all their options are evaporating by the hour while they sweat it out.

"As I wrote in December, White Sox GM Rick Hahn spoke openly about trading Kimbrel, saying, “We’ve had conversations with other clubs and have a sense of what is potentially available.” Hahn added, “It’s easy to make the assessment that if you put him back in the closer’s role, it’s what he’s accustomed to and he’s more likely to have success.” I don’t find that to be a particularly reliable assessment: put Kimbrel back in a closer role, and he’ll be good again. That didn’t prove true for the Cubs in 2019 or 2020. I think the White Sox would very much like to trade Kimbrel, but they may have overestimated his popularity in the market at his salary. Perhaps they’ll need to kick in a few million or take a decent-sized contract back to make it more palatable. I’m not sure if an intra-division trade could be worked out, but the Royals have spoken of trying to upgrade their bullpen. The Rays, Rangers, Blue Jays, Marlins, Mets, and Phillies could make some sense, but only if the money can be worked out and if the White Sox finds a team that actually believes Kimbrel will succeed in ’22." Repost from earlier in thread...

Well, except for Wheeler and Machado...