Quin

Split this off because we'll be talking about it well past the Winter Meetings.

Even if he has, that's the biggest middle finger to the fanbase possible after letting Abreu walk.

In this scenario, Pedro Grifol gets to remove TLR's HoF plaque.

Leury+

Whenever I think of Benintendi I think of that Juan Pierre-esque throw he had against the Sox. Didn't he somehow still get the runner?

I know we said this, but they're probably slightly more confident.

Defensively I could find myself resting easy with this. Also all the bombs.

Oh God I went and looked. What the f*** is that font?

Go look up some texts your friends might get from MLMs. The winter meetings have ruined my sanity.

Last time we took the Tigers scraps we got an All-Star ? Other GMs are making it ?️ ?, but that's ? because they're in San Diego. Ol' Rick knows you gotta get ? to supplement ? talent. Reyes' Ⓜ️✌️?️ and Avila's ?️ ? are gonna shut up a lot of haters ?.

This was what I was trying to explain to my dad when he declared he'd stop following baseball. Like I understand his new local team is the D-Backs, but c'mon. He can just watch some Dodgers games on MLB.tv. He can even go to the same spring training stadium!

I never said I'd fully switch to the Mets, just buy their gear, because I figure I can actually adopt a full-time NL team for reasons I've stated ad nauseam. But we've heard you say you - Knew the rebuild would fail - Called Yermin's ascension (we haven't heard much about that anymore, despite you saying FutureSox was wrong about him) - Knew Frank would be a stud before anyone else and that he should have been called up sooner, even though he was called up midway through his second year after being drafted. Crazy fast. That's just off the top of my head, but man, you've got to give the self congratulatory stuff a rest.

Like I told my dad (who declared he will never watch baseball again after the Cubs signed Bellinger), we're too dyed in the wool here to leave the Sox. But a majority of my baseball following friends here are Mets fans, I go to Cyclones games, and SNY is massive fun to watch. Adding Q to their team is just a good reason to finally go to Citi Field for a game.

I live in Brooklyn and actually go to a decent amount of Cyclones games (especially when the Dash are in town). So I've already got a Mets minor league jersey.

Cali, we get it, you're the greatest scout of all time.

Nah, I wanted Quintana back and so did others.

Dangerously close to buying some Mets gear, god damn.

Preller has taken our seat at the table

You're not supposed to feel comfortable giving pitchers that much!

Lmao, Bonds should get in the hall just for this.

Preller: "The money will (actually) be spent."

If you consider inflation, Albert Belle's deal would be 104,465,646.91 in today's money. So we should probably count out Jerry.

For what it's worth, I was including extensions. But considering half of the extensions the Sox signed are loaded with options, it'd still take a while.

Some quick napkin math, but... Since buying the Mets (2020), Cohen has added at least $866.65 million in guaranteed contracts to the team. I'm sure the Rangers, Phillies, and Padres over the last few years are similar (they're all $500M+). So anyone that thinks big contracts are prohibitive is full of s%*#.

Absolute clown s%*#