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Hahn's pronunciation of Ohtani put us over the top.

If you want to watch something weird, disturbing, and fascinating all at the same time, watch The Voyeur on Netflix.

The Winter Meetings begin a week from now with the announcement of the Modern Baseball Era voting results. https://baseballhall.org/modern-baseball-era-ballot-2018 Quite a few of these guys I'd have no problem getting in, but I'm partial to Dale Murphy and Alan Trammell.

Rooting for the Cardinals here, but probably safe to say the Giants are the favorite.

15 ballots public. The first 7 had Vizquel. The last 8 did not. That's a good thing. https://twitter.com/NotMrTibbs It would be pretty funny if the voters put Bonds and Clemens in this year.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 08:48 PM) Why #2? Personally, I think it’s a huge long shot Machado would want to play for the Sox, the Sox to pay that type of money, and them wanting to have one player take a huge percentage of the overall payroll. But you never know. I guess we’ll find out next December.

New free agents https://www.mlbdailydish.com/2017/12/1/1672...-of-non-tenders

QUOTE (Tony @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 07:23 PM) Can they add guys to the protected list by the Rule V draft? No, guys like Guerrero and Peter can’t be added now.

Hanson, Alburquerque, Putnam, Petricka 40-man at 36

Supposedly it was down to Boone and Meulens, and Bam Bam is staying with the Giants. Aaron- don’t hire your brother.

Every year, there’s one annoying baseball topic that drags out. This is the one.

Things that won’t happen: 1. Ohtani signing with the Sox 2. Machado signing with the Sox in a year 3. WBWSF saying something nice about Reinsdorf

About 90 minutes to go. Cubs cutting ties with Hector Rondon.

QUOTE (GenericUserName @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 01:30 PM) How does this signing work with the 40 man roster? Are we at 40 now pending non-tendered guys? Yes

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 01:18 PM) Maybe he does know something since he didn't list Lord Farquhar in that tweet? Probably, since Merkin is basically an extension of the Sox PR Dept.

http://m.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article/262...opicId=27118146 About six hours until the deadline. Merkin hints Putnam, Petricka, and Alburquerque as non-tender possibilities. Not sure if that’s based on knowledge given to him, but maybe.

Solid pickup while Collins and Zavala keep progressing. When they’re ready, trading Castillo at some point in 19 will probably happen if things go right.

Jim Nabors, 87 Gol-lee. He was still living.

2018- suck, but start seeing the pieces of the puzzle playing full seasons 2019- more experience for the young players. Maybe contend if a lot goes right. 2020- win the division

Abreu will be appreciated for his professional play and hitting prowess, but he doesn’t fit with what the Sox are trying to cultivate. 31 in January. That doesn’t fit the sustained success they’re going for in 2020-2024.

waits for eyeball tweets...

https://twitter.com/jakemkaplan/status/935583767376384000 I would assume he and Getz are friends and played with each other in the KC years.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 28, 2017 -> 12:44 PM) Is there some sort of rule where they have to wait til this week to non-tender players? I would think if they non-tendered anyone, it would have happened to make room to protect prospects on the 40. They don’t announce non-tenders until that date. Remember last year when we thought they were going to let Lawrie go, but it didn’t happen. It is a good question though- if they intend to nontender a player, why not DFA them before the prospect protection date to protect more players?

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/11/2017...candidates.html The relievers are all possibilities, I guess. Still wondering why they didn’t have room for one more protected prospect.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 27, 2017 -> 08:37 PM) Wow, what a great article! I think he should say what he wants to say, but keep voting for anyone he wants on the ballot. It’s not like Joe Morgan is going to sway anyone’s opinion.