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But it's not Preller, it's 100% about their ownership group. He already had a terrible series of FA moves that hampered the franchise in the 2014-15 cycle and Hosmer hasn't exactly been the best signing as well if you look at what Machado is staring at contractually right now. And Myers is going to be way overpaid if he can only play 1B.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/yet-another-indication-bryce-harper-153302462.html Is Harper back to the Nats a real thing again?

So basically no "new" news, Harper to Philly and Machado to the White Sox again...sigh. Saw the thread count rocketed up and believed there might actually be something there, but alas.

We really need Arenado to extend, just so we can see an exact price point for Machado. What teams realistically would suddenly jump back into this if Nolan was removed from the board? The Yankees would suddenly be willing to allocate $250~300 million? It would also put some additional pressure on Hahn and JR to weigh the magnitude of missing on Manny and then having to fight tooth and nail over Rendon or Bogaerts.

Or 8 figure... Also the ownership stakes for NBC Universal weren't announced, but hard to believe it would be anything but 25% across the board to all four entities. 50% White Sox/Bulls, but not controlling interest to make decisions that aren't beneficial to the Hawks or corporate parent.

Pirates Tigers (post free spending Ilitch) Jays are arguable...depends on vlad jr. and bichette

I'm extremely confident in Jimenez, Madrigal and Robert...but the pitching is going to be by far the biggest question.

That was before Kopech's TJ, Moncada going sideways and Giolito pitching like Jerry Kutzler. Without Jimenez, Cease and Robert, we'd be in a world of hurt right now. We still might have to rely more on the Indians losing a war of financial attrition to the baseball gods that cursed Cleveland.

As we always say, there are no standings for "conducting negotiations in the most prudent and cost-effective manner." Fans only care about results. With all the teases the team and its media reps have put out there, it would be the worst blow since whiffing on Miggy due to a lack of top line minor league talent to incentivize a deal. And that's in hindsight, as this will seem much worse because of how protracted the process has been, and how bad the recent performance on the field and general apathy outside of die hards and minor league prospect addicts.

They have Hosmer, Myers' deal blowing up next year, $25 million to pay riff raff who are on other teams, all the money they spent over the caps on Lat Am talent, 10% of their money going to paying down debt and stadium renovations (something we most assuredly don't have to deal with.) If they somehow beat the White Sox offer, we might as well just fold up the franchise, because clearly being last in t.v. ratings for the product they've produced the last six years is not bad enough. Even if they were to make the playoffs, they're not going to get the fans 100% behind them without at least one superstar on the team.

Based on what can we say they could even offer $250 million? They have a long history of running lesser payrolls than ours.

Kepler would be their equivalent of Anderson in terms of promise vs. performance. Berrios and Romero the much tougher signs at this point. Polanco is a head scratcher.

They already have a 3B who is decent in Franco and signing Harper would directly have the impact of taking away from a divisional rival, the Phillies also have a clear lack of outfield talent (McCutcheon is fading, youngsters are not difference makers) and he's already familiar with the division and its pitchers.

How about we get Jeff Bezos to send "sweet nothings" texts extolling the Yankees...that would make virtually anyone turn tail and run in the opposite direction.

Just makes way too much sense for Harper to end up there...whatever the number is between $300~330 million, he will likely only play there 2 or 3 seasons with the opt out.

If he voluntarily started sending money, that would set a precedent in terms of support and be difficult to escape. Seems that is one of the overriding concerns here. I know what the "old school" response would be from my dad, were he still around, but that era of personal responsibility and duty died off somewhere in the 80s or 90s.

But it's more short term veterans other than Hoskins that's carrying it...unless they can extend Nola. They have Realmuto for just two years. How much longer will Arrieta be effective...essentially as their #2? It feels more like the White Sox retooling the last decade, just with a much bigger payroll. Maybe the next 2~3 years with Philly makes more sense, but not necessarily long-term.

Somehow I have a feeling direct deposit would be the likelier case.

Wouldn't a real family member actually spell the name correctly?

The Mars lander was supposed to survive just 90 days but made it for over 14 years...this won't go on nearly that long.

C'mon JR, $300 million is actually nothing in the grand scheme of things! Here is something to think about, with $1.5 BILLION added to the national debt every single day… $62 million per hour… $1 million per minute… and more than $17,000 per SECOND. So for the 3-4 seconds you took to read this they spent $51,000+ that we don't have.

http://tv5.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/allstarweekend25973286/got-next-nba-case-giannis-luka-more 5 picks for the next "face of the NBA" after LBJ.

He averaged around 300 per season. http://www.espn.com/nfl/qbr/_/sort/cwepaRuns

But same type of offensive system that depends on getting outside the pocket, making rapidfire decisions, uptempo, utilizing all the offensive weapons, especially TE. Drew Tate at Iowa was another QB of similar height a decade ago who was highly successful in college. Manziel, Mayfield and Murray are all from Texas and came out of spread or 8 man football...Tate, too...of course, we can also look at Texas Tech and Houston "system" QBs flopping.

They didn't impress against Iowa either...other than that dude with the foreign name, Brazdeikis. Also, no Duke/Coach K hype after last night?