Chicago White Sox

We’ve already spent nearly $200M of it between Abreu, Grandal, & Eloy. That leaves almost exactly $50M for Keuchel before the money has officially been spent!!

I know this will sound kind of dumb, but if I knew was unable to pursue Cole or Strasburg, I would have gone after Corbin last winter and given myself two chances to land a potential TOR starter (along with Wheeler this year). But my true fallback would have been signing Rendon (he can technically be backup plan IMO), move Moncada back to 2B, and then use Madrigal in a trade for a controllable starter. Money is a powerful asset if you actually leverage it creatively

It would be spending your money as effectively as possible. Now we’re stuck with second & their tier free agents or just nothing to spend it on. But hey, I wouldn’t want to love Moncada around again.

Lol...honestly he could be. Really sad that he’s the caliber of free agent we should probably expect at this point.

I think Hahn hyped up the two starter angle long enough that even he knows he needs to land one name guy. That guy will likely be Keuchel and my guess is he will get around 3/$60M.

Can’t strike out if you don’t even step up to the plate.

Yup, disappointed <> shocked or surprised.

Of course not, but a savvy front office would have leveraged their financial flexibility by pursuing the beat guys available fit be damned.

They’ll land him or Price. I don’t think they’re infatuated with MadBum and Ryu’s durability probaly scares them. Keuchel is in that sweet spot between good and not good enough that will allow the Sox to get him on a three year deal and Uncle Jerry will love that.

I will move to fucking Florida so I can be even farther from this team if they bring Nova back.

I don’t disagree, but they put all their eggs into the Wheeler basket and had zero backup plan. Now with our affordable 1 win RF and most SP options off the board, it’s going to be hard to sport an even respectable payroll.

I hope you like Kuechel because that’s going to be our big starting pitching addition assuming we put our Boras boycott to rest!

Can’t wait to see what’s next!!

Apparently we plan to use a little here and a little there so we can find slightly below league average payrolls.

It’s truly sad that our offseason was Grandal, Wheeler, or bust.

Sounds like they’re getting Rendon.

Well now that you’ve already shared some info, can you tell us how likely a trade is with the Red Sox?

Way too much punctuation

The Hahn comments I was referring to was earlier were him saying that every so often they get an interesting trade offer late on day 3 of the winter meetings that blows things up and this year it came a day early and they were considering it. No other context, but weird for him to be so forthright with Merkin about active trade discounts.

I think Olney mentioned it first. If you are referring to Price.

You think something is going down with us and the Red Sox?

Yesterday was my wife’s birthday so I knew something would leak out right before I got home. Now she’s out of town and shit can go down whenever!

He just mentioned to the press they had an interesting trade offer they were pondering. For a guy who tries to stay quiet & disciplined, it was very odd.

Exactly, you don’t start talking to the press about a David Price salary dump and call it interesting. The return of Sale, right or wrong, would blow up the internet.

I’m just saying based on how odd his comments were. And I don’t think Hahn & Sale had any beef, it was moreso a KW issue and I think they ultimately squashed it.