Chicago White Sox

I just don’t think there are huge markets for either guy and I feel like Reinsdorf is actually motivated to spend big. It honestly seems like the perfect storm right now of desire, cash flow, & opportunity.

Anyone else feel like this has a legit chance of happening? If I were a betting man, I could see the odds being like 25% that we land both at this point.

Awesome...thanks!

I seriously doubt he left Chicago last night. Even if you don’t believe Joe (which is totally fair), he probably doesn’t head to NYC until this morning at the earliest.

Yankees are Wednesday, Phillies are Thursday. And yes, that’s what JoeCoolMan is suggesting. If true, I think there should be some photos of him today in Chicago.

Now this is a great list.

Not much. JoeCoolMan says Machado wants to sign with the Sox right now but his agent wants him to keep his remaining two visits. He also said Machado will be staying in Chicago through Wednesday. If you saw those two rumors, you are up to speed.

What else you hearing Joe?

Zero chance bro.

I’m thinking something like Madrigal, Dunning, & Adolfo would be pretty damn attractive if Micker takes another leap forward next year.

I’d be willing to give it more thought if it didn’t say we agreed to a 10 year deal with options. Maybe he meant buy-outs or something, but still a red flag IMO.

Andujar at 3B & Machado at SS would result in some bad IF defense. Probably not a good idea when play 81 games at the Rate and should be targeting ground-ball pitchers.

How does $9M change anything though?

Holding onto seven OF prospects and having nowhere to play them at some point in the future would be foolish though. Jimenez & Robert aren’t going anywhere, but after that I fully expect to trade at least of two guys in the 18 months or so.

I will say this, if we were somehow able to land both of them, we’d be sitting on a ton of prospects and nowhere to play them. We have seven OF prospects and would maybe have room for three of them if Eloy was moved to 1B. Madrigal would have to unsurp Moncada or Anderson to get an everyday job. Seems like we’d have the prospect currency to go out and land a cost-controlled TOR starter (prior to the 2020 season) to anchor an otherwise young rotation. Not sure who might be available a year from now though.

Lol...I meant in 2020/2021 when the next wave of OFs hit.

I don’t mean to question the guy himself, but rather the quality of his source. Either way, I still think all these L.A. rumors we’ve been hearing are Boras plants intended to drive up the price for us or the Phillies. They are better than a mystery team because they provide both the threat of money & a desirable location. I just don’t see Friedman spending $350M+ on a OF who’s been more than name than production these past few years.

Honestly, it all depends on our new TV deal. I think people keep forgetting national TV money increased significantly over the past few years and we never saw the bump in payroll. Thar combined with with a nice bump in our local TV deal could push us upwards of $160M easily with no attendance increase and maybe quite a bit more.

I think Eloy gets moved to 1B pretty quickly in that event.

It’s truly amazing. A 26 year old, left handed with a career OPS of .900 and she’s not going for it.

I think it we sign both guys, it means we’ll be rocking $175M payrolls for the foreseeable future.

I still think if that guy is legit, his source is a Boras plant.

And significantly better from the left side.

Holy shit I thought this was Lillian post for a second.

Come again?