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At least that's (signing a contract) more binding than a D-1 basketball or football scholarship. Can we get a internet detective to start tracking private plane tail numbers (arriving at Midway...?) Yainee Machado or the Alonso family.

You're forgetting that Lindor, Jose Ramirez and Kluber/Bauer (or his trade value) represent a significant amount of WAR...just those four are probably comparable to the entire White Sox team from last year.

It would be interesting to know if Hahn had this idea of keeping Castillo (jettisoning Narvaez/Smith) as the #1 and bringing in Alonso at the very beginning of October...hopefully it all works out, because Machado has already had a significant effect on the MLB careers of Abreu, Alonso, Narvaez/Colome, McCann and Smith, and he's not even on our team yet. Same with Alex Call. Then you'd have to add in Anderson and possibly Moncada too, if Machado ends up at SS (which seems silly). We also could have essentially had Wilson Ramos/K.Smith for the same price as Castillo/McCann. Choices.

Except we’ve done exactly that by dumping Avi and essentially Fulmer. The only difference is Collins hasn’t yet failed at the big league level...but isn’t he usually listed around 7-10 these days on most Sox lists? It would be idiotic to go into the pivotal 2020 with Collins as the starting catcher if they weren’t 100% believers in his ability to get the job done. As far as Alonso/Adams goes, we’ll surely be able to list about 10-15 guys like him or Pedro Alvarez that could have put up a 738 ops at that position for half the price...which won’t matter if they sign Machado, but essentially forces him into whipping boy position with the fans if they don’t. He’d just be another version of James Shields, where you think more of the player you don’t have instead of the one you’re left with to try to get behind.

from the same article in comments GUS FROM ALLENTOWNDecember 15, 2018 at 8:24 pm White Sox are the red headed step child of Chicago who brought home a case of the clap. Premise of Wanks article was not bad which lends to the absurdity of just how badly Phils ownership has screwed this franchise up the past 5 years. The White Sox local prime time ratings last year were 22,000 viewers a night and historically they are bottom 5 in MLB in tv ratings, sadly no one cares about this organization . The Phils last year avg 102,000 viewers a night for comparison sake. Scrubbies 166,000 . Now heres the kicker and tells you how badly Phils ownership has messed this organization up. When the Phillies are good( say 2011) The Phils averaged 297,000 viewers a night . The Phillies are an abslolute juggernaut media market for MLB but Phils ownership + management for the past 4-5 years have been fielding a team full of journeyman, utility players and overmatched prospects. There should be no decision between the White Sox + Phillies ever but there is right now .That’s how badly ownership/management have bleeped this thing up.

The problem is that (seemingly) Ventura and Renteria aren’t/weren’t the kind of managers to deal well with clubhouse cliques. Ozzie was the last manager who got all the various groups to integrate well with each other, partly by taking media attention and focus off the players and putting on himself (Maddon is somewhat similar.) After all the issues in Baltimore and Washington last year, you wonder how much the manager factors into the decision. Yes, the obvious caveat that the most money wins out 90-95% of the time.

Bumblebee is definitely the best film in the Transformers franchise (low bar, there) and a good family film for the holidays, similar to the first one in many ways. It’s also the first one without Bay directing. Mortal Engines is quite a bit better than the reviews. Far from great, but if you like dystopian visions of the future with lots of imaginative cinematography, this is not a bad watch at all.

So theoretically we would have surrounded the core of Eaton/Sale/Abreu/Quintana with a lot more talent if the t.v. deal expired in 2014 or 2015? Thank god there’s motivation the Bulls apparently don’t have (ticket sales/attendance/merchandising/inflated t.v. deals) to actually land a whale or two.

Not revenue sharing, I should have listed it as a subsidy of a little more than $2 million when gate receipts are divided and split up with all the other teams. I had every team listed in a thread before but now all the data is hidden behind a paywall and I can’t find the old thread. Teams like the Cubs are kicking $5-7 million back into the pool because they’re doing so well.

Don’t forget Rudy Law and Julio Take Me on A Sea Cruz.

You’re also looking at a $5.0 - 7.5 million negative swing in revenue sharing....as we’ve been a net positive recipient of subsidies the last five years due to poor gate revenues, that’s going to swing the other direction where we would actually be making payments to be distributed.

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https://www.mlb.com/news/yonder-alonso-traded-to-white-sox/c-301883238 Alonso played 138 games at first base in 2018 for the American League Central champions, but if all things stay the same with the White Sox roster makeup, he figures to split time with Jose Abreu between first and designated hitter. The move, which followed the free-agent signing of catcher James McCann on Friday, might indicate a change in direction from fellow premium Bryce Harper. Or the relationship between Machado and Alonso could be just an interesting side note. The White Sox still have plenty of contractual room even with adding Alonso's salary, as Spotrac has them just over $33 million pre-arbitration for '19, so this trade won't influence moves in that way.

Yeah, we haven’t considered fully the effect on Abreu and whether Renteria could even handle that team...would Castillo/Alonso/Machado start clowning like Melky and Yolmer as they cruised to 68-72 wins together? In other words, are those the best veteran leaders for Moncada, Anderson, Jimenez, etc. to emulate?

Contract Notes: 2020 Vesting Option includes a $1M buyout, vests with: 550 PA in 2019 or 1,100 across 2018-19 574 plate appearances in 2018, so the Sox would be on the hook for the next year (age 33 in 2020) if he reaches just 526 this season.

Sure, if we’re willing to field $160-180 million payrolls on a yearly basis. It’s still going to require at least a 40% hit rate on our Top 12 prospects, and assumes Jimenez will be a hitting star. $80-90 million spread across 3 players (logically, they need at least one veteran stud pitcher to solidify the rotation) for an organization that only operated like a large market team from 2006-2008 would be a huge leap of faith.

Guess that depends...if the Indians win three more division titles from 2019-2021, probably not.

https://www.cleveland.com/tribe/2018/12/cleveland-indians-trade-first-baseman-yonder-alonso-to-white-sox-after-acquisition-of-carlos-santana-jake-bauers.html “Let’s see EE 2 on in scoring position..... oops another K. Alonso. Take strike 1 Take strike 2. Swing and a miss. K. Won’t miss it at all.” According to Larry, Alonso will fit in well with Moncada. “Lets get really crazy and trade Kluber to LA Dodgers for CF Verdugo, a virtual Brantley clone, Caleb Ferguson LH SP, and C prospect Diego Cartaya (age 17). Then trade Bauer since there's no way you will ever re-sign him to the Cardinals for OF Tyler O'Neill (RH power bat), RP Jordan Hicks (105 MPH), and a player to be named low level prospect)/ Then sign Lindor to a 10 yr, 300 Million contract extension.” It’s kind of amusing, many of the Indians’ fans are all ready to jump ship and trade Kluber and Bauer and aren’t even sure they will pony up the money for Linder/Ramirez. The front office has managed to cut about $27 million in 2019 payroll, and that’s before the predicted trade of Kluber. They’ve also lost 86 out of 216 homers last year, although Santana should be good for 20-25 back.

McCann at least can stop the automatic doubles and triples when we’re leading the world in walks...

Pretty hard to do from Wuhan, China. Unless I’m Aquaman and can just traverse the Pacific in a matter of seconds. I could go Columbia River to the Missouri to Mississippi but then things would get complicated. I guess Illinois River to the Des Plaines River.

Southsider2k5 is doomed now, too.

Yes, because he’s made more spelling/grammatical errors in ten days than I have made in a decade. We must be the same person! You got me.

Because the Indians don’t even see us as a legit threat to their 2019-21 window, lol... Or they simply refuse to believe that Reinsdorf will sign off on a contract 4X the largest one in Sox history.

Now we’re DHing him when he’s a much better fielder than Abreu...sigh.

Everyone is saying this tonight, when we are practically guaranteeing a Machado signing. Let’s see what this all looks like on July 1st, 2019.