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If that's true, how did they not take that deal?

I think we're definitely going to try for Houston, a cheaper safety, and a kicker with 25 million in cap space.

Welp, the Coleman and Collins deals really screwed the Bears. Amos and Callahan will both get paid more than we wanted.

AB posted fake news on the Insta story from ESPN. This is hilarious.

WTF

One more safety on the market:

Doesn't Gio always look good in ST and then once the real thing starts he goes back to being bad? Isn't that what happened last year?

The plan was never going to work with what ownership and the front office was planning to offer.

Looking at how easy this deal was to match...jesus christ. This is almost worse than the Manny debacle. Manny got more money per year and an opt-out. We weren't even in the running in the end for Harper, who got no opt-out (what JR wants) and an AAV of only 26 million (5 mil less than what we offered Manny). I realize this contract is also 3-5 years longer than what they were willing to commit to Machado, but holy crap.

At least they got Realmuto, Robertson, and Cutch so far. Bryce would make their off-season perfect, but they were already a competing team. Adding those guys should get them to the 88-90 win territory.

A $600 million investment from them is probably half the value of their entire franchise. That's pretty crazy.

lol where did the Padres get more than half a billion dollars from

Quintana's only gone downhill since the trade. Regardless of what happens to Cease I think we will win that trade by a large margin as long as Eloy meets his projection. The Cubs definitely did not get the value they were looking for when they made that trade.

Bryce isn't happening. I don't think we can outbid the Phillies. I also don't think he wants to come here unless we beat the next highest offer by a substantial amount.

I swear if this happens I'm not even gonna watch a single game on TV this year.

Isn't CarGo one of KW's guys? He's available.

Yay I guess we'll just get 5 Adam LaRoche type signings then.

Manny's offensive numbers are going to dip in San Diego. Pretty much every player that goes there has had this happen to them. I would not be surprised to see him put up a .330 or .340 wOBA in 2019 with the Padres.

The team is based in the third largest city in the country. Not fucking Des Moines, Iowa. It's so goddamn frustrating.

Paying $60 million over 2 years to a guy who will be 35/36 is not fun. But that's what you gotta do now. You could also just front-load the contract so it doesn't become as big of a burden down the road. We tried to get cute and it backfired in our face. Now all we have to show for it is 2 1 win players we're paying $13 million for this year.

The only way this can get worse is if Alex Call turns out to be a good major leaguer.

I never want to wish badly on this franchise, but it needs a wake-up call. If that wake-up call is record-low attendance, then so be it.

Money we could have just given to Manny. Their commitments alone this year are almost half of Manny's AAV.

I can't believe we got fucked over by Preller twice in 3 years.

Unless the numbers on this deal are insane, this is an absolutely massive failure on the part of the FO.