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Because he’s not a fit. Not because of money.

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I’d be pretty surprised if Michael Conforto hit $100 million from anyone at this point.

Someone told me this morning that it's not Seattle. I have no idea though. Maybe they consider Colorado the west coast.....

I don't. He doesn't have any value without options. Lambert could be in it though.

Oh yeah. If it's a prospect trade, they're cooked. The guys from Toronto were big league ready though.

I don't know that the offseason has been a disaster yet.

Christ I hope so

No idea. I don't know what Conforto/Boras are looking for.

Jim Bowden linked the White Sox to outfielders as well.

Exactly. I'm totally fine with Harrison at 2B. I'm not fine with Vaughn/Sheets/Engel in RF and Kopech/Keuchel as back end of rotation.

Makes sense to me. This is a really bad offseason if they don't do anything else.

They set the market on Grandal, Wheeler and Hendriks. Boras is a different beast though.

I wish I knew.

Kimbrel won’t be here

Because it gives you leverage in trade and free agent talks.

Yeah that's fair. I wouldn't trade Vaughn because he's going to be a star but they'll get a fucking shit ton for him if they actually pulled the trigger. The problem with signing Castellanos though is that they still need a RF.

I know all about the Reinsdorf block, his friends and his history. I get the skepticism. I don’t need to fucking clarify my sources for you or anyone else but it’s definitely not a White Sox employee in this instance. Your mind is made up any way though so I don’t really care.

Probably not but they don't need to go over

I don't really agree here. You need 23 owners on board. I've been told that Reinsdorf has mostly stayed out of it but also that he wants to play baseball. This team can win a title and his friend is the manager. He has influence but that doesn't mean he can get 7 rich assholes to change their minds. Luckily for all of us, the 14 team playoff will likely change everyone's mind. Hopefully this week.

The White Sox CBT payroll is $194 million right now. It'll be the highest payroll in franchise history pretty easily. They'll subtract Kimbrel but I'm very confident that additions are also on the way.

This international draft idea rules. Way better than the current system.

If the White Sox sign Conforto and Tepera and trade for Chris Bassitt, I don’t care who plays second base.

This can be simplified even further. The owners proposed a luxury tax line of $215 million. Players are at $245 million. Until that thing gets closer to $230 million, there will be no baseball. I think they miss half the season or more at this point. There's no reason for the players to fight in order to miss like 22 games and cave basically. If they want real change, this drags into the summer.

I have no reason to believe that Abreu will ever be gone.