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It's crazy because it's not like he is in great shape either. Just our luck, Reinsdorf is basically William Shatner 2.0.

The big 90. His birthday was yesterday but somebody forgot to make a thread. Happy birthday Jerry.

To quote The Monkees: I've got to admit it's getting better A little better all the time (It can't get much worse)

Getz is a genius. Don't question him.

I hope Jerry shows this boy how shrewd negotiating is done. "You can either take $8mil or head back to college for a year. Your choice, son."

On the bright side, Jerry will use the money we saved on good players when we are contending. 20m more to spend when we contend. This is a big win.

A Christmas miracle. Caulfield is going to have so much pent-up caulfield-ness when he returns. That will be a day of reckoning.

Amazing. I never thought I'd see the day where a ban bet was enforced here. I won a few back in the day that didn't get enforced. Greg better think twice about betting his house on here anymore.

Did caulfield lose a ban bet and get temporarily banned?

Great, Edwards probably our for a year.

He's still got the voice at least

Bring down the hammer!

That's what I thought. That's why I didn't understand this talk of "what if the Rays have a deal with him for more money."

But they can't do anything if the Sox pick him. What, he chooses to go back to college over a $1mil difference?

Even if he has "demands", he has no leverage if they pick him 1st. If he wants 11m but they offer 10m, all he can do is go back to college which is a HUGE gamble.

How can they even do that? If the Sox draft him, he either takes the deal or takes a massive gamble on going back to college to make $1-2 mil more on his contract next year? While delaying his free agency timeline by an entire year.

I know that, I'm just wondering if it can be expected that he will sign for under slot.

Would be interesting if they did this route with both Schultz and Hagen. That would be a solid bullpen.

Appreciate your analysis and enjoyed listening to your draft podcast. I forget if I asked this to you already, but how much do you think a guy like Roch would sign for? Is it likely to be the allotted slot value? Or can they snag him for less because he has no leverage? The last 2 picks were a bit lower than slot. Even Paul Skenes signed for $500k below slot. Edit: Just saw your tweet about how a possible scenario would be them signing him for $10m and having $1.3m extra from the $11.3m slot value. Man that would be awesome.

The White Sox have been known for moving guys to the bullpen while developing. It worked out spectacularly with Sale and Crochet. The Sox showed they are serious about competing this year by signing Murakami. The AL Central is typically a joke, and since this is baseball after all, anything can happen. The team has a plethora of young talent and it wouldn't be surprising if they competed for the division. Should we give Hagen the Sale/Crochet treatment and let him develop while he dominates in the bullpen? That would surely bolster our bullpen. I'm not sure if the new front office is gutsy enough to do it. Maybe with a little pressure from Jerry to try and compete they would do it.

Jerry would never sign a deal like that, especially for a pitcher.

It's going to happen. All signs are pointing towards it. Unfortunately this board has decided to go full-on Parkman and be overly pessimistic about it.

Something that always came to my mind regarding Garrett Guest - is his position as Assistant Director of Amateur Scouting a part time gig or something? How does he have time to run a dealership AND have a big position on a major league team?

I expect some absolute PISS MISSILES from Kelenic.

He was a character alright. The fact that he's still doing the "fake insider" thing after a half decade is hilarious.