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No, I'm rebutting the stupid inflation point. I'm not about to drop an analysis of "here's why the Sox HAVE actually given out great contracts" because of inflation and deals offered to Manny Machado and Alex Rodriguez. It's embarrassing that they haven't signed any nine figure deals, but I'm not going to say that because of inflation, the extension the A's gave Eric Chavez in 2004 is bigger the Yasmani Grandal's because that opens a can of worms and strawman arguments.

Sox by a decent margin Tigers Twins close behind the Tigers Guardians Royals

And Albert Belle goes to $99.5M Frank's 1999 extension goes to $109,671,731.09. MAGIC

RIP Micker-Mania

How could you forget the Celtics?

Well, you see, he was bad as a rookie and as we all know, no rookie has ever improved in the history of baseball.

Why the fuck did we trade for Pollock when that kid was probably available for cheap?

Mackenzie Gore's ERA in A+ ball last year was 5.40...so...?

Absolute wild card scenario: We trade Adam Engel to the Padres to clear room.

No! Keep Micker if there's no trade.

Lol a Guardians fan proposed Pilkington for Adolfo on reddit. That could either be disastrous or amazing.

Pollock has an .800 career OPS against RHP. Last year it was .902, Conforto's was .792. So against RHP they could have: Anderson Robert Moncada (S) Abreu Grandal (S) Eloy Pollock (Mashes Righties) Sheets Leury (S) A balanced lineup!

The fun thing is that this grade was predetermined.

Even if he did, subtract Velazquez and Harrison ($8M) for him and you're adding $10M to payroll for possibly the AL's top staff, bump Keuchel to the bullpen in VV's place, Romy takes Harrison's place and Leury is your starting 2B. And now you add Cueto as depth. How is that not better in every single way???

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I mean, dear Lord we've had like at least a dozen or so of those dating back to Sale — hell, ReyLo used to top put at 101 mph in his Nationals days. Let me see him do it as a starter long term before making declarations.

Well, lordy.

Lol, according to baseball trade values (which, again, grain of salt), Hosmer + Paddack + Gore still doesn't equal Keuchel's current value.

HOS-MER ??? HOS-MER ???

I think the White Sox were also much more invested in Sale's long term health than the Red Sox.

Old friend replacing and old friend!

Jerry would never, but I would say just eat Hosmer's contract and cut him. You're basically doing $30M for two starters + Sheets for two starters under team control.

How much cash do you need included to accept it?