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Right. Once it went over $15-16 million, he (Gets) gone. Spotrac at a number in $30s is off unless it goes three years, but lower numbers always seemed off in this market. Who's the next reliever up after Fairbanks? Luke Weaver maybe? Finnegan at 2/$19 and Fairbanks is a more proven closer in the most competitive division.

And hurricanes mosquitoes and oppressive humidity. Good governance? Depends on your political persuasion I guess.

Just have a feeling neither of these guys can survive the year without a questionable phantom IL trip. If forced to bet, would say just 1 makes it out of ST. Not exactly going out on a limb there.

There are always going to be counter examples, like the Walton family in NW Arkansas/Ozarks. Or Tyson Chicken conglomerate. Heck, New Mexico/AZ always seems enticing at this time of year when winter starts to set in. And Kansas City is one of the best cities in the country for living in the suburbs and raising a family affordably.

https://www.thelist.com/463799/the-shocking-truth-about-warren-buffetts-marriage/ And his wife/ex preferred California for the majority of her lifetime. There's a reason recruiting college athletes to Nebraska or Iowa is so much harder than the SEC ACC California etc. Heck, even North/eastern students are flocking to the SEC schools just to have "experiences" like Bama Rush.

Cabrera has been getting actively shopped for seemingly ages. Nobody is biting on Alcantara. Weathers another option but diminishing control.

Second round picks continue to give the Sox trouble in terms of fWAR generated per $$$ invested...and you can forget Fairbanks, he will go to a contending team. Just let Pereira and Baldwin play. Tauchman is not even a band aid at this point.

“We need depth in the bullpen,” manager Stephen Vogt said at the MLB Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla., this week. “We have four, maybe five guys in our bullpen, and we need eight. “It’s an area we're addressing for sure.” In fact, president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti surmised on Tuesday that the bullpen is likely the area Cleveland’s brass has spent the most time on -- not only the past few days, but the past few weeks. The Guardians have been examining multiple avenues through which they could acquire relievers, whether it be Major League or Minor League free agency, the trade market, the Rule 5 Draft (which is set for Wednesday) or otherwise. “We’ve spent a lot of time on that,” Antonetti said. “We want to examine all those options and alternatives, and it's a long list of guys. So it takes a lot of time to work through.” For now, as Vogt alluded to, there are only a handful of guys whom you could likely pencil into the bullpen picture: Cade Smith, Hunter Gaddis, Erik Sabrowski, Matt Festa and Tim Herrin. The Guardians also signed right-hander Connor Brogdon to a one-year Major League deal last Wednesday, and he will compete for a spot in Spring Training." guardians.com/mlb.com

$170,000??? Or million?

mlb.com picks Palette as Sox specific player most likely to get drafted by another team one listed from each org White Sox: Peyton Pallette, RHP (No. 14) A move to the bullpen last July has done wonders for Pallette, who posted a career-high 12.0 K/9 this season (86 in 64 1/3 innings) between Double-A and Triple-A. His fastball sits 94-96 mph and he combines it with a high-spin curveball (consistently north of 3,000 rpm) that falls off the table and a mid-80s changeup (50.8% whiff rate at Triple-A in 2025). A second-round pick in the 2022 Draft, the 24-year-old fits the prototypical mold (with the level pedigree to match) of a Rule 5 selectee that a club could plug and play into its bullpen.

Plus, a lot of the Asian players aren't ever going to be comfortable anywhere in the middle of the country except for Chicago and just maybe Houston and Dallas/Ft.Worth/Arlington. Flights to the California/Seattle 3-5 hours shorter compared to US Eastern seaboard, too. Toronto is definitely more eastern... albeit not quite Montreal winters.

I just wanted to put a possible set of players to the deal just to make discussions around it more interesting/worthwhile. Someone also wrote yesterday JFC Glasnow isn't going to be traded in a million years. They're forgetting he still possesses that original mindset of a TB underdog mentality front office executive. Glasnow carries the highest amount of risk in that rotation, other than Shohei. It still feels a bit light...but then it's allowing a decent chunk of the Glasnow contract to offset the proposed Skubal extension. And the Dodgers currently possess a ton of young pitching as well as OF depth.

It's going to be significantly more than 2/$16. That's basically Steven Matz, not the second best closer now available for just $$$ on the FA market with all but a handful of teams unwilling to give Robert Suarez $20-25 million over multiple years (especially considering his age.) Brandon Finnegan was at what, 2/$19?

I had 2027 and then changed it to 2028. Zero desire to see him ever play again.

Maybe not NY, but LA is a dream destination for so many around the world if you have the money to afford it. Just for the weather alone. Toronto also seems to be gaining steam by the year. "According to sources, Robert Suárez and his camp were waiting for a resolution with Edwin Díaz before signing. Now that Diaz has found his next home, expect Suárez’s market and the market for former Rays reliever Pete Fairbanks to move quickly." yahoosports.com

chill-OW-skee Roch is pronounced “Rock,” of course. The last name is Cholowsky — please say “chill-OW-skee” on the South Side of Chicago. He loves Derek Jeter, and in 66 games last season at UCLA, he hit .353 with 23 home runs and 74 runs batted in.

Actually closer to Georgism or Distribution...although, for example, enforcing a $100-125 million payroll floor hardly jolts or cajoles the bottom feeding organizations into more competitiveness. How do you measure if someone like Ricketts cares more about winning than the bottom line profit margin? Who decides if the Cubs having the 12th highest payroll is "reasonable enough"? Or that the White Sox should not be allowed to run the 29th highest payroll or that it's irrational to not once sign a contract over $75 million? Even if every team was forced to have the exact same payroll, large market teams on the coasts would still get the most talent because of abundant off the field marketing and promotional opportunities or more attractive standards/conditions of living.

Hunter Greene also rumored to LAD Do the Dodgers need a starting pitcher? No. But they have the one thing the Reds most need: outfielders with big upside. Note that those top four prospects are all outfielders. One of those is Sirota, a third-round pick in 2024 out of Northeastern by ... the Reds, who then traded him last offseason for Gavin Lux (poor Harold). Sirota had a big year, hitting .333/.452/.616 in 59 games between Single-A and High-A. That trade now looks like a huge mistake by Cincinnati -- so maybe those calls from Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman will go unanswered. None of those outfielders has played more than six games above High-A, so they're unlikely to help the Reds in 2026. Still, there's a possible match here, and the Dodgers know how to swing big. They could add Greene to their already superstar-laden rotation and then perhaps look to flip Tyler Glasnow to clear a spot for Greene and trim some salary. espn.com

Except LA has made the playoffs 13 consecutive seasons...won all those NL West titles except finishing 1 GB SFG. Braves had a similar streak. But only one WS title during all that time. Plus LA is completing dominating in getting most of the star players they want out of Japan and Korea. T.Imai will actually be one of the first Japanese pitchers to deliberately go elsewhere...to a team challenging LA for supremacy. Murakami doesn't have a spot in LA with Muncy Freeman and Ohtani blocking him. Same with Okamoto.

https://detroitsportsnation.com/tigers-massive-tarik-skubal-dodgers-trade-proposal/jeff/detroit-tigers/12/08/2025/481399/ Glasnow Sheehan Zh.Hope Two starting pitchers, one cost controlled, and a young starting OFer to pair with Riley Greene. Makes a ton of sense. Skubal Matsumoto Snell Ohtani the core of the rotation. Dodgers would still hold onto four young starters (Sasaki Wrobleski Casparius River Ryan) 4 outfielders: Josue DePaula Sirota Eduardo Quintero Kendall George D.Rushing and a boatload of infield prospects (including Hy.Kim and Alex Freeland) Already traded the Tigers their starting SS for Flaherty in 2024 deal, so quite familiar with DET roster/system atm. Andy Pages still in CF.

https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/blue-jays-reportedly-considering-stealing-43m-closer-from-division-rival-11184309 Spotrac projected $43-44 million and three years for Fairbanks... Good luck, White Sox.

Not sure Mead had the best overall odds of reaching base vis a vis his teammates. Most Sox fans were probably expecting 6-7 though. Was 7 even a possibility? They should have put 10-12 on the board from the very beginning but "revealed" them just for more dramatic effect I guess. Same with the following year's Sox pick one year from now...automatically in that 10-17/18 range.

Yuck. Pagan pushed them right to the precipice of financial catastrophe lol. Somehow Francona keeps getting it done with these small market budgets.

Can anyone make the case for Justin LeBron?