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We don't know the structure of the deal. It could be a front loaded deal with the last 3 years paying him like $5 mil each, which would still achieve the same luxury tax effect. Basically whatever Harper gives them from age 37-39 is gravy.

Crazy.. right?

Times have changed. Harper has a much stronger national media and social media following and is on the cover of The Show and face of numerous endorsements . He connects to the next generation more so than most players in MLB and is the type of player that puts fans, especially young fans, in seats. Your excuse is just because Sox never had a player that drew fans (I mean Moncada call up drew fans even when he is nowhere close to the star Harper is) so we should adopt a strategy that is proven to draw fans. That seems silly.

You are not factoring in the extra revenue will generate with Harper over 13 years. It’s the cost of James fucking McCann

When was the last time you saw young stars like Harper and Machado hit the open market? What did they sign for? Adjust it to 2019 money?

People keep posting this do not know the difference between NBA cap structure and MLB payroll. Regardless if the Bulls traded for OPJ then money would be spent somewhere, there are salary floors in NBA that need to be met. The floor is 90% of the cap, which the Bulls likely won't be have exceed by a huge margin.

Reality is if Harper is not getting his money MLB will be shut down in the near future.

I somehow think the overreactions will bypass and people will show up when Eloy is launch bombs out of GRF.

I think and hope so. In fact we should have traded them last week and allocate their 2019 salary to Machado.

Come to think of it, padres offer works a lot better short and long term or Manny. Sox offers comes up short on either

Would we have gotten Manny for 8/$250 with opt out after year 5? Something tells me that we ended up losing out because Lozano wasn’t going settle less than $300M or we weren’t at $250M

Over 10 years though. So we’d need to make this an annual thing. Maybe on Feb 19th of every year.

TP the Guarantee Rate tonight. Who's in?

It is found that Manny Machado and Bryce Harper rumors are more effective substances for male enhancement drugs especially for men post 40 than whatever the Big Hurt is selling these days.

He covered his bases one paragraph down. Nothing to see here.

It amazes me how many posters think Moncada, Anderson, Gio, Lopez, Rodon will be the same player as last year, or the return of a healthy Abreu, addition of key bullpen pieces and Eloy, Cease amounts to only 5 wins added. Manny or not, you will see 50% of the future core this year. Natural progression alone will put us squarely into the 70+ win territory.

If Hahn gets screwed by the Padres again, he'd need to call them Daddies. So just don't screw this up Rick.

Hey, we were only one Kyle Fuller INT away from being Super Bowl Champs.

If 2010 had taught us anything about Steve’s predictions then Machado is signing with the White Sox ?

Rollins winning was the right choice and he derseves to get back to the main event picture (heck he was main eventig as the IC champ). However the “lack huge pop” at the end was not to his fault. Fans were looking for a surprise entrant at 30th and they ended up with Nia Jax. That killed the intrigue to the math itself a bit. McIntyre and Rollins should have been the last two standing since there is ongoing storyline between them, there is nothing going on with Rollins and Braun. And also women’s RR took way too long and I suspect they have to wrap the men’s match up quick. They should have let the final two wrestle for a bit and Ron would have gotten his “huge pop” from the crowd.

Anyone who’s getting the 2014 Daniel Bryan pop or is in the underdog storyline is garbage in Ron’s world.

All. The. Lefities. Hitters edition Sox could start the year with an all lefities outfield - Palka, Jay, Pederson, with Delmonico on the bench. In all likely scenario Palka and Nicky would be gone, you'd need a couple of right handed bench bats to platoon with on this team.

Plenty of MLB players believes they should get paid more. If Machado truly outperforms his contract value significantly then we could talk about contract restructure. For now there is no need based on how market is playing out.

After the Dan Clark fallout, all “insiders” have learned to break news AND cover their bases. Bravo.

We aren’t in 2016, and we have made some franchise altering moves since then. But we should ignore the last 2 years (a period in which we could see Hahn being given more power) to fit your narrative? I think we are good to end this right here.