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After that, swap the beach blankets for the '59s

I vote we go with Mighty Mite.

Palka can play left. We don't exactly have him in right for his defensive acumen.

So we've got Eloy under control for 8 years now, with no hard feelings? And according to everyone who said our treatment of Eloy meant no FA would ever sign here this means we'll now sign every FA, right?

A+ post Get those Soxtalk points

Boras. It's Boras

In the above scenario....Vaughn is off the board. Right now it looks like Hahn will have the easiest choice in the draft: Adley and Vaughn picked? Take Witt. Adley and Witt? Take Vaughn. Witt and Vaughn because teams got cute? Thank your lucky stars for Adley. Teams got REAL weird and two are available? Well, now we've got discussions.

Lordy.

Best jerseys / logo in the league.

That changes it significantly.

This is officially where this thread jumped the shark / lost all relevant discussion. SoxTalk isn't PadresTalk, FriarTalk, or ConnfessionTime. Please take all further Dunning conversation to the other Dunning thread.

To be fair, they fired Boylan well over a decade ago As for this thread...this is strange timing for it. The players now like him, the team has looked more coherent since the Porter trade. After his debut? Hell yeah. He was fucking awful. But either he learned from his mistakes or something happened to make it all click in the locker room, because they all seem to enjoy each other now.

SABR is great at research, so this will be exciting to see. I wonder what the other myths will be.

Also #6 is unofficially retired for Lau.

Via the draft the Top 10 isn't loaded, yes, but let's do a total breakdown of the Top 30 via Future Sox. #1 - Eloy: Trade #2 - Kopech: Trade #3 - Cease: Trade #4 - Robert: Signing #5 - Madrigal: Draft #6 - Dunning: Trade --> Not a Top 100 at time of trade #7 - Adolfo: Signing --> Has had his ups and downs, could end up being Top 100 #8 - Collins: Draft --> Former Top 100, could get there again #9 - Basabe: Trade #10 - Gonzalez: Draft --> 3rd rounder who seems to do everything right. #11 - Rutherford: Trade #12 - Hansen: Draft --> This man is an enigma but can easily be Top 100 when he's on, out of baseball when he's not #13 - Burdi: Draft #14 - Burger: Draft #15 - Walker: Draft #16 - Zavala: Draft --> 12th Rounder #17 - Hamilton: Draft #18 - Sheets: Draft #19 - Stephens: Draft #20 - Johnson: Draft #21 - Bush: Draft --> 33rd Rounder #22 - Lambert: Draft #23 - Flores: Draft #24 - Pilkington: Draft #25 - Rivera: Draft --> 28th Rounder #26 - Sosa: Signing #27 - Curbelo: Draft #28 - Stiever: Draft #29 - Medeiros: Trade #30 - Adams: Draft The Sox aren't quite churning draftees at the major league level yet, but they've definitely gotten significantly better at drafting in Hostetler's time.

Jesus. At this point, let Vaughn go #2.

Yonder, Jay, Steverson WHY ARE WE VOTING FOR PEOPLE WE WANT TO SUCCEED

Was Herm Schneider a literal wizard and everyone dies without his presence?

...no? And that's still not counting the upside.

That's more akin to a $25M player at SS, my man. It's not the early 90s anymore where $9M can get that type of player.

Ok everyone, keep the chatter on Eloy here on out... ...Take everything else SLaM

Comes out to only $12.5M per year. But. Eloy has not played a single game. They weren't willing to give 4-time All-Star Manny Machado $50M more over 10 years?

...How were you not able to tell that was intentional?

This off-season is kind of a downer.