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That’s a false assumption under this regime. They have been a lot more careful on what they spend their money on and have been focused on player development internally. If they were hesistant to throw big money on Harpchado when they were below luxury tax, they would be less inclined now.

The signing should put Yankees right at Luxury tax territory. So basically every dollar they want to pay Machado would cost them 20% additionally, and every dollar over $20 mil would get additional surtax of 12%. All in all it’s good news for the Sox. I don’t think the upgrade they get from Andujar to Machado would be worth that kind of premium, unless a team wows them with a cost controlled player for Andujar.

As Kyle said Soria was 16/19 as closer for Sox last year so your argument doesn’t have a leg to stand on. We got a total of 3 young arms for Jake fucking Peters, one of which is a former FRP. It was a good trade whether you choose to accept it or not. As for Herrera, there is no stigma with acquiring ex. Royals players, this does exist amongst casual fans. Over the years, fans would have been elated to acquire the likes of Hosmer, Gordon, Moustakas, etc., You’re just complaining about things only Caufield would complain about.

Typical Caufield rambling about a bunch of things without correlation. He’s still eating crow for his hot take on Soria last off-season.

I missed the part where BW poses as an insider with sources and wanted attention to himself. He casually mentioned it in a thread and someone else created a thread for him to discuss.

There is a stat on baseballsavant called xwOBA. This measures the player's expected wOBA based on the quality of his contact - hard hit balls and launch angles. You can also sort by wOBA-xwOBA and it tells you whether the player was lucky or unlucky based on his results that season.

You need to get some attention on that broken face, that's all.

Some chick who covers the white sox. The airport bartender she talked to said Machado sat on that seat the night before.

FWIW he was sighted at O'hare last time he met in Chicago.

Could be that he was traveling with a friend who took a pic.

Pics or it didn't happen would apply here.

Bulls gotten Tyson Chandler (not resigned) and Cam Payne from the Elton Brand trade from 20 years ago. Crazy.

Didn't expect that out of Robertson, but then again, he did fire his agent so he could represent himself during this free agency, despite him getting a pretty lucrative contract last time around negotiated by his agent. I am sure there may be more happening behind the scenes, but he effectively cut out the agent fees from his new contract. Edit: just read that he’s donating 1% of his salary to team charity, that’s more like the D Rob we knew.

Didn’t read the article but listened to podcast. I would assume the article itself would clarify it was according to sources close to Machado, not Machado himself, despite what the headline reads. So I do not think it makes the article conflicting of what he said.

RIP credibility of anyone who tried to report on Machado updates.

You must have not read this board last week when most jumped off the Machado ship when tweet from an imposter journalist came out.

I have been optimistic as well despite all the Clark/Leyritz/Simonetti tweets, but I wouldn't count Phillies out just yet. They're the only team with cash like the Sox (maybe more so) to spend on Harpchardo, and Harper is set to meet with them in Philly. If nothing else, Boras will use the hell out of them to drive up the price on the Sox.

Yet you were wrong 100% of the time and poses as having legit source.

Take this for what it’s worth. Not sure how much it will be better than Sox offer, when one would be made. Philly is still not a desired city for both Harpchado.

Him an Dick Allen. Too much positive Sox news in one day.

Let's see if the posters who bought Clark's tweet is jumping on this one. Knowing Soxtalk, any source of Sox failure is legit and Hahn should be fired, any sources with positive updates aren't credible.

Also it is less likely this rumor is a plant by agents. The guy basically covered this for less than a minute on the radio before switching topics, and he clearly said he's not big on twitter discussions. It I am leaking this with intentions, I wouldn't have gone to him.

Sources close to Manny says he’s choosing Yankees last week. Sources close to Manny says he’s choosing White Sox this week. Machado to Phillies next week confirmed.

I am not sure in those other situations the other team could choose to outbid the Yankees by $50 million if they choose to. It’s a moneys game right now and Sox should be in driver seat.