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That Carlos Perez catcher just makes way too much sense unless they trade for somebody before Thursday.

I'm using this as a catch all- Tekotte and McDade have been outrighted to AAA. 40-man at 38, including Belisario. Room for a Rule 5.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Dec 6, 2013 -> 11:28 AM) The offer the ends up getting Price won't be enough to make us happy about Sale. Age and contract add much more value to Sale. There's no way the M's will give up enough for Sale when they can give up less for Price. Plus, come on. If you don't hold on to 24 year old stars signed affordably through their age 30 seasons as building blocks, what are you doing? What is the plan there? If the Sox could get multiple pieces- a future potential ace, and a couple premium bats, why not? You keep Santiago, Quintana, and maybe Taijuan Walker, plus they can draft a big arm next June if they want. I'm not saying "time to trade Chris Sale", but they shouldn't be telling teams "don't even ask".

Jon Morosi is saying the Mariners think they have the pieces to get David Price. The Sox have to listen on Chris Sale. They'd be nuts not to.

QUOTE (southside hitman @ Dec 6, 2013 -> 10:48 AM) Ugh, so many bad memories of getting trade raped by Cashman Good money to get off the books. Maybe take a couple low level prospects and a catcher--I know Romine is a name that has bounced around forever, but who knows.

Finally, I agree with Phil Rogers. https://twitter.com/philgrogers/status/408999694371549184 Alexei makes a lot of sense for the Yankees. But watch them get Brandon Phillips.

That was quick. Hey, the Mariners have to overpay to get what they want. I actually hope it works out for them.

Ok, let's crank up the Chris Sale rumors.

Cano should just take the 7/175 from the Yankees. But whatever. Wherever he ends up, I hope it's in the next 3-4 days. That would make the trade market more clear going into next week.

https://twitter.com/MattEddyBA/status/408718626561093632

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Dec 5, 2013 -> 11:51 AM) DeAza is good as gone anyway. Viciedo is pointless to dump for pennies on the dollar. I'm not sure how/why you would factor them into a Granderson addition anyway. Granderson = no 2nd round pick plus the money, and you're getting exactly what out of him? He's the type of player that should hit a sharp decline pretty soon, a speedy K power guy. No thanks, dumb move. We're not contenders & he should garner less trade interest 1-2 season from now than he has interest on the open market now, and his return would probably be pretty underwhelming. This is where Jerry Reinsdorf scares me. He doesn't want to watch 95 losses again. He wants at least a watchable product year-to-year, and hope to get a bunch of career years at the same time. So if Granderson fits in the big league budget, I can see him wanting Kenny and Rick to get him, and not worry about the draft pick.

6 months from tonight. A lot can happen in 6 months.

Royals get Norichika Aoki from Milwaukee for LP Will Smith.

Verducci had a pretty good article in support of Jack Morris. It probably won't change anybody's mind, but he makes some good points. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/...s-hall-of-fame/

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 02:56 PM) JIM BOWDEN ‏@JimBowdenESPNxm 12m Paul Konerko told us that this will definitely be it for him. 6 more months of baseball then retirement….#WhiteSox #SXM Audio https://soundcloud.com/siriusxmsports/paul-...o-discusses-his

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 03:00 PM) Sox weren't likely to do much before PK decided anyway, so the idea that the team is complete as-is has no foundation in reality. I suppose it is possible they make no more moves - but I'd say that is highly unlikely. With all of the activity this week, I'm surprised the Sox didn't get something done too. Now I'm looking at De Aza, Viciedo, Gillaspie, Ramirez, Beckham...that's a whole lot of mediocre that nobody wants apparently. Sure, the Sox will get another catcher like Lobaton, but that might be it.

If Arizona wants Sale, start with Archie Bradley and Didi Gregorius, and then add 2-3 more. But they've already said Bradley isn't going anywhere.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 02:45 PM) Yep. I hope Hahn doesn't even bother going to the Winter Meetings. His work is obviously done. Oh I know. It's just Konerko saying he doesn't want to go out on a 99-loss team. There's not much Hahn can do to avoid a losing season next year. And it will more than likely be an upper 80's-90+ loss team no matter what. Konerko wants to come back so he can acknowledge the last lap of his career while it's going on. One of the things he said at the end of the season was that he regretted not doing that as the 2013 season was going on. Now he can.

It's a 24 man roster, with occasional walk-on appearances by PK. This is the team right now (roughly): De Aza, Ramirez, Garcia, Dunn, Abreu, Viciedo, Gillaspie, Flowers, Beckham Garcia, Keppinger, Phegley, Konerko Sale, Quintana, Santiago, Danks, Johnson Leesman, Veal, Webb, Petricka, Jones, Lindstrom, Reed 90 losses at least. Hope Konerko enjoys it.

Hayes basically live-tweeting the conference call with Konerko. https://twitter.com/DanHayesCSN

Seems like good timing to give Semien an opportunity to play 150 games. See what he's got. Let's see what the Sox do in the next week. Beckham or Alexei could be gone--although I'm not sure who wants them.

OK, I get it. He was getting 1 mil 2014-2020 from his last contract. So now it's 2.5 total for 2014, and the 1 mil a year shifts to 2015-2021.

It is true, once the draft pick came into play, there wasn't really a good reason to pick up Granderson. Good player, but not the right fit.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 10:16 AM) If Abreu struggles in ST, it gives the Sox of having him go the same route as Viciedo and Puig of getting some success in the minors before coming up. The Sox could start him in AA and have him work his way up to the majors by June as he adjusts to American baseball. In the meantime they can work on dumping Dunn in a deal. Abreu would have to be completely outmatched in ST for him to go down to Charlotte. If that happens, we're so f'd.

QUOTE (staxx @ Dec 4, 2013 -> 10:12 AM) its highly unlikely we're competing, let the man leave on his terms and have a farewell after all he has done Emotionally, I'm in agreement. As a baseball move, it's kind of ridiculous to bring back a 38-year-old coming off a bad season for a 99-loss team---with a logjam at DH/1B. At the end of the day, the Sox aren't making the playoffs next year anyway, so I'm not unhappy...especially if Dunn gets moved.