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HAIL CESAR

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Welp, Kimbrel better get warming.

Great hitting, real bad send.

Not as good as Mookie Betts carrying a Jose Abreu fly out over the fence for a home run, but still pretty good.

The Reinsdorf way is trading a cheap controllable player for the most expensive closer in the NL while the team already has the most expensive closer in the AL, giving the team the best 1-2 punch to close out games in baseball as they are nearly guaranteed to go into the playoffs? Cool.

All signs point you.

Padres.

Holding onto Micker is real interesting.

The Mike Trout dream stays alive.

I was about to crown Hoyer as the winner of the deadline if he got Bart.

The real reason we gave the Heuer.

Thread on the main forum.

This simultaneously did not age well and got a glow up.

If that's the case, Hoyer did lines with Preller and Hoyer was far too gone.

My dad LOVES Madrigal. His favor player growing up was Fox and I'm pretty sure he saw Nicky as the second coming. I just had to talk him down and walk him through the fact that you now have a Liam in the 9th, Kimbrel in the 8th, Kopech in the 7th, then Tepera / Bummer / Crochet. They're golden.

The good: The bullpen is fucking scary now. The lineup is covered. Clearly, the money will be spent. The risk: Madrigal turns into a batting champion on the North Side and is beloved. He could also be constantly injured, make mistakes this board shredded him for, etc. and this turns into a massive win for the Sox (I say this as a Madrigal fan).

Holy shit.

But ... hope?

Passan confirming.

I'm nervous, scared, and excited.

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I'd like to send them Yermin just to see how Cubs fans would react. I say this genuinely. I think some would hate Yermin, while others would sing his praises to the high heavens when he goes on a tear. It'd be like if sin city sox fan was making threads about signing him to extensions, but on 670 The Score.