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I don't think Burger is a ML ready hitter yet. Yes, he hit the shit out of some fastballs last year. But he looked utterly lost against any kind of breaking ball.

The other NY team has no problem spending, but the Yankees are crying poor. Oh how the turn tables.

He probably wanted to go back to Atlanta. But they were so adamant about that 6th year that Atlanta said fuck it and traded for Olson. Now he might not get that 6th year with another team.

I think the point of signing any extra OFers is so that in case anyone gets hurt again (which we know probably will happen again), we won't be picking guys off the scrap heap to fill in.

The lockout totally made me forget about this.

Don't worry, Rick Hahn has made sure we're not gonna win that title with how we've spent money this off-season.

Conforto's 3 year ZiPS projection 2022: 2.4 WAR 2023: 2.5 WAR 2024: 2 WAR I'm gonna assume 2025 is gonna be sub-2 WAR. So in all, you're getting around 9 WAR the next 4 years. If the asking price really is 4 years and $88 million, I can see why the Sox would be hesitant. But that does not excuse how they've mis-allocated funds so far this off-season.

Sox not willing to go 4 years with Conforto? We're not getting him.

Even the Rays are trying to spend money.

Velasquez was worth $3 million to us. I doubt another team is lining up to give him more than half that.

Vaughn is worth more than Montas. Laureano would help plug the gap.

Every team should have jumped on Miley. $10 million for a guy who can eat innings and pitch decent enough is a bargain in this market.

Reynaldo is already in arb 2. I don't know if they'd be interested in him. Maybe to give some starts to and flip at the deadline, but that doesn't have a ton of value.

I also don't think Manaea is a great guy to run out in the playoffs. He's probably the 4th guy in the rotation. Not worth selling what little we have in the farm for that.

The Mets got a great deal for Bassitt. Now the A's got all these teams lining up over 2 SPs cause there aren't any left.

You must have missed the conversation in the morning.

But Ramon Laureano might.

Giolito, Grandal, Cease, Hendriks. They might as well be a White Sox hype account.

Mike seems more trustworthy. He doesn't tweet every single rumor he comes across like Hector does.

Remember when the A's were too scared to start Manaea against us in the playoffs in 2020 and started Mike Fiers instead? Fun times.

I wonder if anyone on this board is one of those sources.

That guy broke the Baez deal, apparently.

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I wonder how much cash they got. Either way, the Reds make no sense. Miley is better than Minor and they let him go for free to save a few $. Now they trade for a lesser pitcher making the same $.