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Inside joke with Kyle...dating back to 2013-14.

TWO.

Moncada is not a bargain his last two option years unless he puts up 2019 numbers. Robert is never moving to RF for anyone...not even Yasiel Puig/Roberto Clemente in CF.

Kind of like the time in the last 24 hours when you acted offended when I wrote Kike (undoubtedly resulting in another timely board infractions report) because you didn't realize it was referring to Hernandez on the Red Sox...or perhaps simply there was nothing about Jose Abreu to respond to? At least you got two likes emojis out of that exchange, so congrats?

If he continues to struggle, you’re out more or less $8-10 million and you’ve forgone the opportunity to fix lots of overhanging issues coming into the season due to that $16 million being unavailable…good ‘ol opportunity cost raises its ugly head. And if he was pitching outstandingly but you realize you can’t afford two closers anymore…why bother to do it for just two months in 2021, as you were selling everyone on Kimbrel and Hernandez being 2021-22 additions as well? So now we turn around and blow up that front office assessment in order to acquire exactly which players with bad contracts on uncompetitive teams you could have had for salary relief alone, and not forced the spending of another $10-12 million to replace Madrigal and Heuer with these underachieving but more expensive veterans? Because you can be sure no fellow contending AL team will give the White Sox a boatload of talent ready to contribute to the 2022 playoff race for Kimbrel…and most NL team wouldn’t either. And the non contenders would have zero interest in a past his prime $16 million closer.

Eloy is Cuban now?

That’s the true definition of talking shit this offseason, any scenarios with Correa or Seager or even Scherzer to the Sox… (Although, once every 25 years or so around labor disagreement periods we sign an Albert Belle.)

Severino will save the day…OR, we’ll have one of those miraculous seasons when something like 2012 when 13 rookies (predominantly pitchers) contributed, although I doubt our system was consensus bottom 5 at that point. Would have to look it up.

Kiké Hernández

The only way they would give Semien five years is knowing a TA extension was out of their budget…but then Semien wouldn’t likely be a top flite SS from 2025-26. Heck, could say the same thing about all the dream/fantasy SS, even Correa and Seager.

To conform by changing name back to Conforto…or maybe Concerto would break the string of NL position players laying an egg with the Sox. (Although I’m sure that someone will argue Grandal has been close to great…the general trend over a decade.)

Still haven’t finished it…have tried to watch it twice now. This comes from a huge fan of her American West-themed indie work. In fact, throwing in an Eternals South Dakota scene seemed even more forced.

Losing Taylor, Kike and Seager (these past two off-seasons) makes it highly unlikely since their control of Turner is limited, too. They need to be more and more careful playing Muncy there as he ages, too.

If he gives up more than $5-6 million to trade Kimbrel, picking up the option will go down as a massive mistake compounded TWICE.

Unless you count all those guys like Seager, Baez, Story, etc., as 2B…but we clearly won’t be moving TA for anyone, not even Carlos Correa (who will get $275-325 million anyway.)

Would be interesting to see if there was any month to month defensive regression too…as he went from Gold Glove winner to indifferent/unfocused at best.

Robbie Ray most definitely won't be a Sox sign....less chance than Semien, even. Also, still having a hard time imagining $175-200 million going to TA entering his age 31/32 season in 2025.

Avi in CF >>> Burger at 2B

1B/DH/corner outfield types beware.

That's a far better example...unfortunately, we weren't able to leverage that successfully like the Lynn extension. (Obviously, the keeping McCann in-house vs. Yasmani acquisition instead has been analyzed to death, and then some.) The bigger point is that two of the most "under the radar" moves (McCann, Rodon) that only a few baseball insiders noticed produced All-Star seasons.

1) The White Sox didn't break through early in their windows like three classic rebuild from Ground Zero teams we could all name... 2) 1994/2022 parallels...still sting/lurk. 3) TLR...overall lack of advanced analytical approach. 4) Kimbrel and Rodon leaving a bad taste with some if not many. 5) No changes on major league coaching staff after watching the last two months and Astros series. 6) Not (yet) being pushed by AL Central teams to motivate front office responses.

But the Braves were 12th! You're only going to hear about payroll for the last two months of the 2021 season or current commitments being #6, which includes bad contracts like Keuchel and Kimbrel. Which only proves the unprecedented financial flexibility was/is almost gone without even adding a Wheeler, Harper or Machado. As it stands, the odds are at best 50/50 retaining Giolito or TA, for that matter. If our standard is out spending the Twins, though, hooray?

Except investing so much in guys like Robertson, Hendriks and Kimbrel has gotten the White Sox where, exactly? Plus, if they had succeeded with Collins, they wouldn't have had to give out the biggest contract in team history to Grandal. They let Narvaez and McCann go when both were much cheaper options. I guess it was worth it if you believe the White Sox miss the playoffs in 2020 without Colome, but they could have bought a closer for $8-10 million and kept Omar, too.

Probably no luxury tax/redistribution and/or a minimum salary floor for those 5-7 teams that are raking in money but simultaneously making little effort to compete...too bad they can't do yearly relegation like the EPL for the bottom 2 teams changing places with the Top 2 AAA and maybe even a rare AA franchise on a yearly basis. Obvious problem is those minor league records don't mean anything, it should be based on some combination of attendance/revenues/innovative marketing, etc.

How many teams would rationalize losing a compensatory pick as "giving them some sort of home-field advantage with Boras," especially an organization that has rarely dealt with him until the last decade...and generally doesn't buy top-of-the-market superstar players anyway? How many times has a player tied to Boras taken a less than market value contract to instead give a team the 'ole "hometown discount"?