Chicago White Sox

If they’re not signing Nola long-term, they need to reallocate resources to their rotation.

Wasn’t that guy on reddit or did they just have their own blog? I didn’t think the guy was actual journalist or beat writer.

If the Yankees don’t fuck around with the second & third luxury tax threshold, no one will IMO.

I thought some rando on twitter broke the Segura trade.

No fucking way, they’d be in luxury tax he’ll for the foreseeable future IMO.

Just to play Devil’s Advocate, Heyward had a 5.6 fWAR season & was 26 years old and only got 8 years & a $23M AAV from the Cubs.

God today has sucked a fat you know what. I have officially lost the will to do anymore work until this is resolved.

100% agree. By all means take some short-term risks, but I do not want to trade any of our top prospects for a TOR starter. Let’s see what we have in Rodon, Lopez, & Giolito this year, see where Cease, Dunning, & Hansen are at the end of the season, and allow our glut AA prospects to potentially increase their value substantially with strong seasons. Next offseason you can look at adding stud SP via trade if needed.

Lol...this is spot-on. That being said, I’m just of the mindset that at some point you got to stop fucking around and find a price that works for both sides. If $300M is the magic number, make it over 9 or 10 years and demand any opt-out is after year 4. Ultimately all that matters is we land one of the whales, but no will be ok if they get too cute, overplay their hand, and allow a team to sneak into this process.

Let’s do 9/$300M and call it a day.

Radio silent is usually a good thing when it comes to the White Sox.

That “fat asshole Kenwick” line is great.

I tend to agree, but Heyward only got 8/$184M from the Cubs. He wasn’t as good as Manny at the time (but came with less off the field baggage), but is he really worth $7M to $8M less in AAV? I don’t know, maybe we were assuming too much when we were talking about 10/$350M contracts for these guys.

Definitely could be that too, but the timing is very odd. We haven’t seen this much heat from the national guys in like forever. To happen this late at night is promising to me.

Too late, this Nightengale tweet has me fired up now!

Yeah, it really seems like Machado’s camp leaked the Sox’s latest offer and Sox are using to go-to guy to put out the fire. The fact this is all happening this late at night should be eye-opening in regards to how close a deal just may be.

God damn Bob Nightengale right on cue fucking this party up. I still find Passan to be far more reliable and I’m huge believer in Gomez, so perhaps this is the Sox trying to cover their tracks.

I envy you right now. Have to decide if it’s worth getting less than six hours of sleep on the off-chance something breaks tonight. Giving it another 30 minutes at least.

Tomorrow is 15 whole minutes away, I want this shit today bro!

Yup, that’s exactly it. I did see the second tweet, but let’s be honest guys, Merkin isn’t sending out that first tweet at 11pm at night if there isn’t some serious smoke.

Why does that sound like something has already happened and he knows??

Stagger without a doubt if it’s possible.

Passan + Gomez = serious fucking heat. I’m starting to believe this goes down tomorrow and believe 8/$280M will be the final number when all said & done.

Every team has two former top 5 overall prospects under the age of 24 in their lineup?

Need legit breakouts from two of Rodon/Lopez/Giolito plus #3 & #4 type performances from Gio & Nova respectively. I know Balta thinks you need four Cy Young finalists to make the playoffs, but look at the Brewers last year. A strong lineup and bullpen can help make up for that. Machado & Pollock could be poor man version’s of Yelich & Cain for us. Still a long-shot we make the playoffs, but I’d be rolling the dice on that roster next year knowing I still have a boatload or prospects arriving in the coming years.