Chicago White Sox

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jan 18, 2016 -> 05:26 PM) My guess is yes to both. I believe Jackson will have better offensive and defensive numbers in a smaller park than Comerica/SafeCo. Cespedes, to me, looks like a classic example of a player having a career year just before FA and then regresses under the new contract that pays him based on that career year. You think Jackson will put better offensive numbers than Cespedes if both played in the Cell?

QUOTE (shipps @ Jan 18, 2016 -> 05:24 PM) Levine was saying that is where the Sox are looking to sign him at but he didnt say it was an official offer. Got to think that's once again posturing. No reason for our front office to leak what they're willing go up to.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jan 18, 2016 -> 05:20 PM) I'm guessing Hahn is searching for the outfield equivalent of the Lawrie trade. A solid outfielder with maybe a few question marks but won't be too costly in terms of prospects. Why wouldn't we just sign Jackson if we're going to settle for a question mark?

Who reported we made a 3/$55M offer?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 17, 2016 -> 11:31 PM) Nobody knows what the sox budget is. Every time people thought they were at it last year they kept adding more pieces. Thank you.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 17, 2016 -> 11:15 PM) Yuck. I said this the other day, but if Hahn goes into this season with Avi in RF and the team struggles, he better be fired after this season along with Ventura. Agree 100%. Going into the 2016 season with Avi as your starting RF, after passing on potential hauls for your SPs and then trading three pretty good prospects for a 2 year rental, would prove KW & Hahn went for the Hail Mary instead of having a sound offseason plan. I still can't believe they could be that stupid, so I will retain my optimism until proven otherwise.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 17, 2016 -> 08:56 PM) Something so many disregard is Hahn saying they would have to get creative for upgrades, yet they expect 100 million dollar commitment to be an easy thing to sign off. Honestly even Desmond and Jackson is probably too expensive. A $100M commitment would be over 5 or 6 years, we're talking about $20M outflow this year. That may or may not be a problem for 2016, but it wouldn't be a problem afterwards when Danks & LaRoche are off the payroll.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jan 17, 2016 -> 07:59 PM) If teams are suddenly willing to give into his demands after all this time, why haven't we heard anything about Upton? It seems like teams would be more willing to throw money at him compared to Cespedes. I don't buy these new tweets at all. 10 teams? Laughable. Unless they're including everyone interested on a 1 year deal. Exactly, I have no doubt there are few, if any teams willing to go beyond 3 years with Cespedes right now. I think eventually some team will bite the bullet and go four or five, but no way in hell is getting his 6/$130M+ contract he's hoping for. I think our biggest risk right now is Cespedes sticks to his crazy demands up to spring training and I don't see the Sox waiting that long to make an upgrade. I fully expect to see some tweets next week about the Sox offering Fowler a contract to try and force Cespedes' hand, just like we saw with Baltimore & Davis.

Astros have four OFs plus Gattis in the mix at DH. Can't rule them out I guess, but I'd be very surprised if they went hard after Cespedes.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ Jan 17, 2016 -> 02:09 PM) I really just can't see the Sox being able to come away with Cespedes at this point. 7-10 teams & somewhat long-term suitors don't bode well for them. I hope I'm wrong but this is just not playing out the way most were hoping, IMO. Who exactly are these long-term suitors? If there are 7 to 10 teams interested, the vast majority are probably only interested in a 1 year deal. All these recent tweets are Cespedes' people trying to rebuild his market.

QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ Jan 17, 2016 -> 01:06 PM) I would be shocked if he ends up signing for less than 6 years or 20M AAV. Unless the deal is *significantly* back loaded and gives him an early opt out, I don't think it's realistic to pay him 10M in year 1 of his deal. I think the odds of him signing for 6 years or more is slim to none. He's looking at a 4 or 5 contract IMO.

The trailer for the new Cloverfield is really, really good. I think it's very cool they're going in a completely different direction, as another found footage flick would have felt forced. Extremely excited to see this movie now.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 17, 2016 -> 08:35 AM) The Stephen King adaptation? The short story is better but the movie wasnt bad The ending was incredible though.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 07:09 PM) Here's my daily obligatory "I have a feeling that something will happen soon" post for today. I think it's going to be a few more days at minimum before anything happens with Cespedes. He's got to regroup with his agent and lay out their options. At the same time, if we are willing to go beyond this three year threshold, it will likely be in a take or leave it type offer. And my guess is they'll try to have their plan B in place and use that as leverage as well. Davis was the first big roadblock, but now Cespedes needs to accept reality that a 6/$130M offer isn't happening.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 07:08 PM) Care to copy & paste the link? It has a paywall on it. Just search "Cespedes Tribune" on google and you can read it for free.

Who cares about the Cubs, let's add Cespedes so our team is a legit playoff contender. Add Cespedes and we have just as good of a shot as any team in the division to win the Central.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 01:15 PM) That's almost what a small market team has to do...maximize the contention window and then bottom out and rebuild with high draft picks for 3-5 years. It makes more sense than trying to spend your way into contention every season. Rebuild 3-5 years? I'm pretty K.C.'s last go around was like 20 years.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 12:59 PM) It seems to me that the White Sox would sign Cespedes to a 4 year deal. He needs to lower his demands though. The 3 year things isn't true but I don't think they'd want to go 5 years with him. Cespedes is running out of options. He is and I really can't see him taking a one year deal. If the Sox offer 4/$84M, he'd be foolish to pass that up.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 12:44 PM) Considering the fact that some of us thought that he might get less than the original offer once the Orioles rescinded it because there's no other team offering anything close, it looks like a fleecing. The original offer looked like a fleecing. And then he got offers from zero other teams and there's no logical landing spot for him other than Baltimore and then Baltimore ups their already crazy offer. Exactly, Davis would have lost a ton of money if Baltimore would have finally told Boras to go f*** himself. Holding to his guns and getting even a cent more is incredible given he really didn't have any leverage.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 12:47 PM) I doubt they'd have the cojones, but wonder if they would be willing to move Hosmer and Moustakas after 2016 to avoid losing them for nothing. Given the Kennedy deal, I think they're going all-in the next two years regardless of the long-term consequences. Nothing would make me happier than watching the Royals be cellar dwellers once again.

The Royals are doomed after the 2017, will be fun to watch.

They're sticking with the three year bulls***. I really, really hope this is all just posturing because four years might get it done at this point.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 10:06 AM) Assuming Garcia was the starter and not Thompson...we can't be so sure about that. Garcia was the starter last year, so why does Thompson matter? And Trayce got us what's projected to be the largest positional improvement in baseball. I have no idea what your angle is here.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 09:55 AM) Ventura Volquez Kennedy Medlen Young Duffy Jason Vargas (back at midseason from TJ) Zimmer The one thing they do have is some depth now... Without a single top of the rotation starter. At best Kennedy is another #3 in the AL with the potential to be a total flop. I totally get their need to go for it and overpay in free agency to do so, but this is the wrong guy and wrong deal.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 09:23 AM) The thing is that no one was negotiating against them. He literally got $7 million for no reason. All while the position player market plummeted. That's an incredible feat by Boras.