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This place is in midseason form: Carlos Rodon now a #1 Dallas Keuchel now a #4

Gausman. Seems like he will be traded if he doesn't sign an extension very soon. His asking price shouldn't be much higher than the remaining money on his contract, especially if he begins the season with anything less than his best for whatever reason.

Absolutely unfathomable that he was coaching as recent as 4 months ago.

Seemingly every restaurant in the city will be slammed this weekend. I think there will be at least 5k, hopefully 15 in the stadium on opening day.

The money will be spent.... on non-player payroll.

Incoming TA tweet re: "Doubters & Haters"

The MiLB argument is a completely different one. I am talking about Major League Baseball players that earn less per year than a bad lawyer (whose career is 10X longer). Daniel Palka earned a grand total 642k while playing for the White Sox for 2 years. That is not a big enough piece of the pie.

I actually support a star like Bauer getting insane money. People tune-in to see him pitch. People buy his jerseys. Superstars make the league money. It is the next tier of player that is way out of wack IMHO. Adam Eaton is not significantly more valuable to the game/product than a pre-arb outfielder. I expect him to earn more than an unproven player, but not 16X more.

Why would the player's union give a damn about a small market team's ability to build a farm system? 500k a year is not enough for players who have accomplished the impossible. Prorated pre-arb contracts are an absolute insult to what these player's have accomplished. Their window to earn a living is so small, their union better look out for them. Veteran run player's unions tend to always look after their own, which happen to be veteran players.

Insane contract. His catcher Will Smith makes 575k a year, or about what Bauer might earn every 3 innings. The player's union better get pre-arb money doubled or tripled this CBA.

The support for the rebuild was overwhelming IMHO and I feel like we were promised (I supposed "We expected" might be more accurate) a significant increase in payroll during the competitive window. I understand the hesitance to make long term commitments but I feel like we had room for 1 or 2 more large short term deals this offseason. I imagine the unknowns of the pandemic might be a legitimate concern for ownership but my patience will run out after next offseason.

It may be "Witesox-esque" but it isn't fine. Sale was a 5+ win player who was worth 1.7 WAR over a year and a half. The BEST reliever last year wasn't as valuable as Andrew Heaney, Spencer Turnbull or Zack Davies. The 25th best reliever (Colome) wasn't as valuable as Mike Fiers, Logan Webb or Steven Brault. You gotta be on the mound to help your team.

Maybe he will face a lineup once thru every 4th or 5th day... usually paired with Cease. 50 pitches. Maybe they think he gets through the entire season that way? Otherwise you are correct. This is stupid. You can't take a guy with the 11th pick and then use him as a traditional reliever for 2 years.

I feel like our front office might need a lesson on the value of relief pitching.

Oh, I'm not blaming the agent. I'm blaming the market.

It is sad and weird that agents have to pay or dupe idiots like Hector to pump their player's value. Other major sports have teams lined up to pay talents like Cruz. He shouldn't have had to beg to get a one year seemingly market rate contract from a team that he overachieved for the past two seasons. Cruz only cost money. No long term commitment. Very little risk. If your team found itself out of the playoff hunt he would have to be VERY bad (EE bad) to not be flippable for no less than the money owed on his deal.

I bought the top. Lost 20k.

Would giving Bauer 35 million for 1 year or 2/70 or something have a major negative impact on the clubhouse?

They literally closed one side of the trade. I have sponsored ads in my twitter feed from CNBC saying Melvin Capital closed their shorts (they had or have not). Ja Rule is being interviewed as the representative of the WallStreetBets community (Google: "least trustworthy person") And entire "#SilverSqueeze" campaign was launched everywhere except WallStreetBets, advertised as the next short squeeze supported by WSB when no one at WSB gives a damn about SLV. To answer your question, it was OVA when *someone* decided that burning the 10 billion that was shorted to the tune of...... 660 billion (if the estimated $15 shorts had to cover at $1,000) would be terrible for the entire market (not denying this)... and that it had to stop at all costs. I'm not bitter (lol).

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Dumb Joc

Leury Garcia, Reynaldo Lopez and Adam Eaton for 13.5 million seems like a poor allocation of resources if that is the case.

Nice of Stone to take a break from telling fans how they should feel to piss all over Hector

I was going to list all of the reasons he *isn't* this "type" and actually quite the opposite but he is just so damn popular with our fanbase I don't want the heat. To anyone that doesn't follow the team in this matter: Kopech has signed EVERY autograph and taken EVERY picture since he arrived. I think there is a correlation between this and the good-will he receives on Sox internet.

I'm still having a hard time processing why this is a thing. The only plausible explanations: 1. The Brewers are bearish on Burnes and are actively trying to sell high. If so, you'd think there would be legitimate league wide rumors that he is being shopped, which as far as I can tell there are not. 2. Burnes is attached to a salary dump? I've speculated in the Sox buying bad contracts in exchange for value the past 3 offseasons where we seemingly had money to burn and it has never come true. It makes me sick to think of how man more solid young players we could have accumulated if Jerry would have dumped another 20 million per year. 3. Someone in our front office is enamored with Burnes and if this goes down we are going to be absolutely disgusted with what we have to give up. 4. The Brewers are going to completely tear down their team and for some reason their first move is trading an inexpensive young starter. 5. The weirdest smokescreen in recent memory.