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I just totally disagree with this assessment. Moncada, Anderson, Eloy, Robert, Madrigal, & Vaughn is six high-end / elite talents on the positional side. Giolito, Cease, & Kopech are the same on the pitching side. Do we need to plug holes? Most definitely, but we have tons of to do that. Trading multiple core pieces for one year of Betts (such as your Cease + Madrigal proposal) would be giving up on the rebuilding right when it’s starting to take shape and is completely nonsensical.

Gross

Why are we risking the long-term viability of the rebuild to improve our chances of winning a ring in 2020? None of this makes any sense IMO.

I love Greg is trolling both threads now.

It would pretty much have to be four years given what he’d be foregoing. That being said, 4/$90M might work for both sides. His market shouldn’t huge, as there are only a handful of teams in the mix.

The difference is Strasburg can opt-out of his contract which is high probability, whereas the Cubs would have to pass on their team option which will never happen. Just seems like a waste of space in article like this IMO.

I mean, at some point it has to be right. Only two teams in baseball had four guys making over $20M/per last year and those were the Cubs & Red Sox. I don’t see the Padres joining that elite company of spenders, but to each their own.

While I’d prefer Grandal, I’ll be happy if we land one of them. We need at least one significant positional upgrade on top of everything else.

JDM seems like a total White Sox signing and if they plan on limiting any Abreu deal to two years it could work.

How in the world can the Padres afford Strasburg? They have like $75M tied up to Machado, Myers, & Hosmer.

Wheeler was like 14th in fWAR this year amongst pitchers this year and has the talent to back it up.

Duber should be embarrassed even listing him in that article.

100% this. We are a good offseason away from potentially being a 90+ win team next year and that doesn’t require Cole or Rendon. Until the front office fails in its execution, I don’t get why people automatically assume the worst. The Sox are going to spend a fuckton of money this offseason, just got to hope they pick the right guys this time.

They can easily spend that much in an offseason. I would be disappointed and quite honestly feel cheated by management if we aren’t at least at $125M next year.

I’ll keep saying it, but Wheeler is a no brainer if Cole & Strasburg are off the table.

Plenty of star players have signed with teams in far less attractive markets, we have lost out on free agents primarily due to us not being the high bidder.

Samson claimed Reinsdorf purposely wanted to in second place specifically to have that “carrot” to dangle, which is straight up ridiculous. You are arguing against a completely different point.

No, but why would the Cubs buy him out?

Rizzo isn’t a free agent, but you knew that already.

Thanks for sharing. And all of that lines up with reality. The fact that anyone thought he actually preferred coming in second to first is absolute insanity.

All I know is the Sox make more on games broadcasted oh NBCSports than games on WGN, so that alone will help to some extent.

lol...do you actually understand how rebuilds work? Like it’s beyond amazing how many people point to the lower payroll as a sign of cheapness when slashing unnecessary spending is step 1 of any rebuild. Every team that has gone through a rebuild, the Astros, the Cubs, etc. has done the exact same thing. As for your other point, rebuilds don’t normally lead to attendance increases & TV ratings improvements while the losing persists. The fact that those are up is proof the fanbase was completely disgruntled over our previous attempts at winning and are excited to watch a plethora of exciting young players. JR did not kick off a rebuild thinking fan interest interest would be better while losing 90 games and that he could capitalize off that financially. This shit is uber nonsense.

This narrative is ridiculous, the Sox did NOT rebuild for financial reasons. I don’t care how much some of you hate Jerry (and I’m not a fan of him myself), the purpose of the rebuild was 100% well intentioned with the ultimate goal of becoming a sustainable winner long-term. There is no conspiracy theory here.

Who is player A?

? You think it’s bizarre that I want some heat on Jerry? Of all people, seems like you absolutely love that right now.