Bananarchy

What? You low ball without offending and start there.

I would give Lyle Mouton a 10 year, $20 million contract to play for the current White Sox if I knew we netted Machado by doing so.

Or that Clark the Cub debacle from a few years back

Yeah, but he just started. His sources are pre-ESPN. Olney is institutionalized at the booyah network. I wouldn't trust anything from him

Stick to weak hockey takes

Until the next inevitable strike, I'm not sure what Trout would even get on the free agent market.

Yup. Recent developments have created a de facto salary cap. No one wants to pay into any competitive balance tax. This will undoubtedly hurt salaries.

Depends on the options built in, honestly.

Yankees didn't sign Alex Rodriguez to that contract. They signed him to a worse one. And based on the reluctance in the market, you think somehow a team would drop $370 million adjusted for inflation for A-Rod? Okay Skip Bayless.

Who is they? The White Sox? They're clearly setting the basement and will negotiate.

They mention the A-Rod contract. Honestly, that was too high then and it's probably too high now. There is stupid money in baseball right now. I don't care what anyone things anyone deserves, you get what the market wants to pay.

That sound about right. $60 million/year is a lot to invest in two fielders.

The Yankees one would be the same with even less baseball content. Yankees fans may be worse than Cub fans.

Indeed.

If I had to guess, someone let slip on either side that the Sox are willing to go 8 years for more money (they must be if they're that serious) but the message from the White Sox is "oh no, we're not going over 7 seasons"

Oh it would be insane... ...and completely unfair

I think they're trying to save and if the market is as thin as it appears, they should try to get the best deal possible.

Yes.

That would suck, but probably not worth mentioning in this roller coaster.

Lol. So many local guys trying to refute this, lol.

That would be "so White Sox"

I'll take Passan.

JP is on another level.

The White Sox could win four consecutive World Series and you would still be mad. No one here should take that opinion seriously.

If the current market is any indication, we might be at a point where free agent prices are dropping, which would mean the best time to sign is now.