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Yea, if nothing else, people who have no followings will give Dave their own scoops because he has a voice on SoxTwitter.

Absolutely one of the dumbest things I've read on this site in a while, but then again I don't see most of your posts. ?

That's an insane package. That's a package for someone like Ronald Acuna, not Blake Snell.

While I mostly agree with you, the Rays go to their bullpen very early. I think Snell would have a longer leash on pretty much any other team, and his lack of innings wouldn't look as glaring. That being said, I don't value Snell like the White Sox and Boston valued Sale, and that's essentially what a Vaughn + Kopech trade would be like when it was Moncada/Kopech/Basabe. And like others have said, making a big trade with the Rays in general scares me off. Go after Marquez or Woodruff if you have to trade for a #2 guy behind Giolito.

Joey Gallo would be an interesting target for RF. Gold glover, bats lefty, gets on base, massive power.

Well he's the starting QB today and projected for 16 pts out of my TE spot. Also, just made a trade of Mike Davis and Curtis Samuel for Justin Herbert.

I disagree, but I think it will also depend on what the Sox add to their bullpen this off-season as well as how the pen is performing next year. If they are struggling and need Crochet, sure. But if we are talking the 2020 bullpen we had this year, stretch him out. My off-season plan included resigning Colome and adding Kirby Yates. If you can do that, I think you afford the luxury of leaving Crochet in AA/AAA in 2021 to stretch out until he's needed in September to be a 2-inning guy for the playoffs.

Yup, exact same hope and expectation.

Hoyer got promoted to VP of Baseball Ops. This would leave a vacancy in their GM spot, unless they just let McLeod take it.

Anyone else on ESPN considering putting Taysom Hill in to their lineup in the TE or Flex spots? I'm thinking about flexing him, thinking about all the points he could get if he quarterbacks and plays WR/RB/TE the rest of the game.

It doesn't bode well for those of us who are holding out hope that a La Russa convinction in December would result in them firing/mutually parting ways with TLR. Or it could be a complete coincidence that he happened to have played for TLR and maybe the Sox are hedging their choice as a guy who would be a good choice independent of La Russa, but may also be good in conjunction with La Russa in the event that he is found innocent/they keep him regardless. Honestly it would be smart of them to hedge themselves for both outcomes.

Wait, whose our 2nd pitching coach behind Katz?

They Cubs could throw money in a trade. Bryant and $10M to buy a decent prospect, or something along those lines. It's insane to me to believe a team like the Cubs could fuck up so badly by non-tendering Bryant.

I saw Eno Sarris mention something on Twitter today about the Blue Jays bring competition for the White Sox on Springer. My takeaway was just him acknowledging the Sox are in on, and possibly most aggressively so, Springer.

Amazing

I know I don't come on this board much anymore, but is there really a subset of fans that don't like Grandal? I'm so confused. He's a slam dunk top 3 catcher in the game. How is this a real thing?

I only support this if it means Andrew Vaughn is traded for a very controllably stud, like Marquez or Woodruff. And I definitely don't want to move Vaughn, but that would make it worth it

Yea, Portillos burgers are amazing

A funny/frustrating wrinkle in the pursuit for Springer is that he doesn't have any social media. It takes half of the fun out of it not being able to obsess over every tweet/like/picture posted and try to connect dots. ?

4 years would be great for Springer, but I would be shocked if he doesnt get 5 years, unless he gets an opt out in that 4 year deal. In big time FA you always have to go 1 year longer than you should to secure the deal.

Yes, but I assure you that had no impact on my Woodruff plan. ?

I was in the online checkout on Costco's website for over an hour, but didn't get one. They had issues with everyone's CVV codes on their credit cards being rejected. After trying different browsers and devices, I finally saw someone suggest signing up for Visa Checkout. I did and finally got through to the "place order" page, but as soon as I clicked it I got an error saying that the item was sold out. ? I don't really need the PS5 until The Show comes out, but if I can get one from Costco, I'm going to, because of their return policy in case these first batch systems have problems.

In the link to the full plan I have more detail about the contracts there. Colome's deal has a team option for 2nd yr with a $1M buyout. So his guaranteed is actually $7M. Quintana's is actually $24M with the $4M buyout included, and Yates is actually $8M with the $2M buyout included. I should have probably added that in that short summary, but my idea was to kick some money down the road for Jerry so he can save a few million in 2021 on those buyouts. As far as the Brewers trading Woodruff. I was honestly shocked when there was so much talk about the Brewers trading him during the season, but I just figured if they were willing to trade him 3 months ago in a playoff race, why not now? Plus, all of those players they would be getting back are either barely major league ready (Cease, Mendick) or are about to be (Stiever, Adolfo). It's not really a trade package a rebuilding team would go for anyway.

I don't know if this is where we are dumping our Off-season plans, but here is mine... https://www.southsidesox.com/2020/11/12/21563416/joey-doughnuts-2020-2021-off-season-plan The long-story short is this.... In summary: - Fire La Russa, hire Fuld - Re-sign Colome (1yr/$6M) - Sign Springer (5yr/$115M) - Sign Quintana (2yr/$20M) - Sign Yates (1yr/$6M) - Acquire Woodruff for Cease, Mendick, Stiever, Adolfo - $141M payroll