Chicago White Sox

At least he’s calling it SoxFest now, I’m starting to believe he’s got that inside info.

Oh no doubt. I wouldn’t recommend that generally being a good strategy, but I thought his package of tools was interesting to take a chance on, especially with plenty of major league at-bats to give him. Normally I’d prefer going the lottery ticket / A ball guy with upside route.

I totally agree with your main point, more or less just debating the order.

I agree with this for the most part, but Cordell is somewhat a five tool guy with some actual upside IMO. With CF wide open last year, I think he was worth rolling the dice on, just unfortunate he never had a real opportunity. I was never a big fan of Tilson though, as he seemed like a 4th OF all the way.

I don’t follow.

Hard to say with the injuries they experienced. Cordell missed so much time over the past two seasons that it’s possible he returns to form this year with better health, strength, rhythm, etc.

You’re right that things are getting crowded, but I don’t see Banuelos being the next guy to go. They literally just traded a minor leaguer with some potential (admittedly not a ton) to get him. I also think Covey is pretty safe given he’d be our 5th starter right now. Similar logic applies to Stephens as well. I don’t see Medeiros going anywhere either. The rest of your list makes a lot of sense to me and Cordell just might be the next guy on the chopping block. The only other guy I’d add is possibly Leury (who can easily be traded for something inconsequential) if they decide to go with a three man bench and would like to keep Rondon, who is out of options.

No, Charlie Tilson is terrible.

That doesn’t just sound like collusion, that is collusion.

It all kind of fits together. He’s leaking these fake offers to Manny and gets small real news in return like the Jay signing.

Isn’t Bauer the guy who crashed his drone into our brand new Jumbotron? If so, fuck that dude.

Sox leaking this to Bobby to keep the Phillies at bay?

$200M is a joke offer and I refuse to believe it.

I thought about flipping Anderson & Castillo, but figured Timmy should bat higher strictly from a development perspective.

If we somehow landed Machado and Harper I would go: Moncada, 2B Machado, 3B Harper, RF Abreu, DH Jimenez, LF Alonso, 1B Anderson, SS Jay, CF Castillo, C

Of all the shit out there, I tend to believe this Hector Gomez guy the most. I don’t want to jinx anything, but it really does seem like the Yankees won’t budge off a certain number and the Sox & Phillies are so far ahead that Manny has already ruled New York out effectively.

Nothing to see hear IMO.

Yeah, it really is a great outcome for us.

I think you may be off by 10 years.

I can confirm.

This is what I like to hear!!

No, that was JoeCoolMan aka Chilihead.

Good call! Didn’t even notice that. I just assumed he no longer had any followers because he’s a full of shit Orioles blogger.

Well he’s definitely changing his story, because his original tweet said offers were final and he was going with the Yankees. Yet somehow the Yankees just raised theirs despite already having him in the bag? ?

Now I almost think he’s trolling.