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Unless it includes opt outs that other teams aren't willing to offer, or not offer as soon. Fangraphs at some point did an article assigning dollar value to opt outs. I'm sure it's case by case basis, but it's possible 7 yrs/$200M with opt outs after 3rd and 4th year is more valuable than a 7 yr/$230M deal with only one opt out after a 5th year. And even if two teams offer different deals in terms of length and money, but have the same opt out year, one team could stack the AAV very high before the 1st opt out, and you would assume the player would believe in themselves enough to think that they would take that 1st opt out available, you might be talking 3 yrs/$100M from one team, or 3 yrs/$140M from another team, despite the first team offering a total of 10 years and the other team offering a total of 7 years. It's nuances like that which are hard to flat out say deal A is better than deal B.

No, I think that was a fake tweet where the guy eventually admitted that he was just fucking around.

The Quintana thing doesn't make sense to me. He is still surplus value due to his cheap contract, and the Cubs shouldn't be getting rid of pitching help. The rest of those names I buy, as ways to facilitate a Heyward deal.

They can get both.

Wow James, what a lucky guess! ??

Ok, so BuehrleWood hasn't logged back in yet and the girlfriend wants to watch a movie, so fuck it. My guy told me that Kelvin Herrera is coming to Chicago tomorrow to meet with the Sox. No idea if it's to sign, or just informational, or maybe he really likes Gibson's Steakhouse. ?

David Vassegh was right, YOU'RE ALL ANIMALS!! LOL just kidding. If BW doesn't reply, I'll come back to this thread tonight to share what I got. Calm down, we're all rooting for the same team here.

Do you not understand how one piece of information coming to fruition can establish credibility for another piece of information from the same source? Some people don't believe the Machado info from 2 weeks ago. This is the same source, so if this move comes true, it may make them realize that my source has aconnection. Calm down and wait for BW to get back to me, or ignore this thread. It's a simple equation.

Saying he is expecting a move to be made and saying a senior FO person was called away to finalize something are two different pieces of information. He knew both, he only divulged one at a time.

You kidding? It's 1 page back, he had more info that he JUST NOW shared.

I should give Dan Clark my scoop. ?? God I hope I never hear from that guy again after this Machado stuff is over.

YOU GET OUT THERE AND YOU FIND THAT FUCKING DOG

No, I'm not ready. I don't want to steal BW's scoop. I already DID message him earlier. I would have made a new thread if I just wanted attention. And don't act like no one has ever posted "??" before without divulging all of the information they have. Even Buehrle Wood said "that's all I have" and then later came back with more info that a White Sox exec was called home early from holiday to address business. I'm just trying not to steal BW's thunder, but I also want to be on the record that I had a scoop from the same source that some have doubted from a couple of weeks ago. If BW doesn't get back to me by tonight, or doesn't think it's related, then I'll go ahead and post a new thread tonight with the scoop, considering it's possible something happens tomorrow. Until then, feel free to ignore it. No reason to get all upset. EDIT: All this being said, it's not some blockbuster move. Another reason why I didn't both making a thread for it. It would just be another piece.

I want to see if I can get a hold of BuehrleWood and see if he heard anything else outside of what he shared.

Soooo, I just got another scoop today and I am wondering if it has any relation to what Buehrle/Wood heard. Would imagine it could be announced tomorrow.

It's about him being so unprofessional and b****ing about being attacked by people who wanted more information from him.

I'm still listening and he has called us "South Side trolls" on twitter, and said he was just trying to enjoy a nice day at the Zoo and he had 670 The Score calling him to come on their show and then complained that they were grilling him like a bratwurst, but then bragged about "And I did get a couple of jabs about how bad the White Sox have been the last 6 years". Wow what a tool.

David Vassegh is at it again on his radio show today, and to paraphrase he was talking about the rumor he started and mocking Sox fans for being desperate to be happy about anything positive for the team. And going on about how they have been so bad for so long, and Sox fans freak out over this, where other cities wouldn't care about this news. And he felt like he was being attacked by hungry animals foaming at the mouth for something to be happy about.

Yeah, I was kind of thinking the same thing, but it seemed weird that he would give away his source, when he was VERY worried about his quote being taken 100% at it's face value.

I hate to give Chris Russo any attention, but he did say "Maybe he will end up there in the long run, I have a funny feeling that he might" when talking about Machado taking the most money from the White Sox.

Big, if true.

Quick, the bat signal for Bucket, Rock, or maybe even BuehrleWood!

Except he didn't water down anything. He just plainly repeated what he said on his show and didn't expound upon it at all. It's the shitty rest of the interview that leaves us feeling like he doesn't see us a real threat, but his initial report was never his opinion anyway, he was just repeating what he was told