chw42

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.

lol if I were them, I'd try to get out. Jesus christ what a mess.

Talk about a punch to the gut.

Getting Amazon to come to your city is great if your town doesn't already have terrible traffic and incredibly inflated property values. That's the issue with trying to go to NYC. People don't want their rent increased or their commute times lengthened. Because their rent is already high and their traffic is already awful. There was a similar sentiment here in Austin. Our property values are already inflated (compared to the rest of Texas) and our traffic already sucks. Now imagine outside investors pouring money into the real estate market and adding 20,000 more cars on the road. It would suck. Yes it's better for the jobs market, but I don't think that's a very big issue here in Austin (or NYC).

Less than 700 posts until 20k posts. Does Manny sign by then?

Robs us of Fernando Tatis Jr. and then makes us pay more for Manny a few years later. I think I hate the Padres now.

The amount of rage from this site if we get outbid by the Padres is going to be insane.

I'm not saying he's not legit. But the way he answers certain questions and his posting style in general seems very bot-like.

At this point Hector Gomez just seems like a bot that latches onto any Machado stories and says "Very interesting" or something along those lines.

Hahn has come out in the past and insisted we can't land both. I'd rather trust him than some randoms on Twitter with 500 followers.

That guy kinda looks like Travis Kelce