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He has so little to lose tho. He can just start a new fake Twitter.

Meh. I wouldn’t HATE it, but I just don’t think NA should really have much surplus value. But if you're trading for NA, Madrigal is pretty much the only guy that makes sense as the centerpiece. Gotta make room for Yoan at 2B. I guess if he waived NTC, it’s be alright. All that being said, this rumor is 99.9% BS.

Bring back the 59 (?) red pinstripes as an alt like they had in 15(?). Those were sooooooo good.

I think .285/.330/.535 sounds about right. I do think he'l surpass 40 homers if he can stay on the field.

Ahhh, gotcha.

I love Moncada. Guy could be a monster. But he would be lucky to get half of $300M right now if he signed a long term deal.

In other news, the sky is blue. He never had a chance.

First things first, the White Sox aren’t trading for Betts. Second - the Sox will certainly be one of a handful of teams that will be interested in Mookie next winter. I don’t think he’ll get $420M, but could see 10/$350M type deal. I do think the Sox are and will remain a long shot to actually sign him, but we should be in a better position than at least like 75% of clubs. That’s a start. If things go mostly according to plan this season, but Mazara is the dude he’s always been, RF could legitimately be the only hole to hole to fill with an approximately $100M payroll after arb. The money will be there on an AAV basis. It’s the years that obviously will concern Jerry. I wouldn’t necessarily bet on the Sox signing him, but I think they’ll be a real bidder and a finalist for Betts.

It’d be behind idiotic not to. 2 weeks is never better than 1 full season. Ever.

I like Yolmer. I’m glad he signed elsewhere. There are about 7-8 guys I’d rather have that are still FA.

This. Unsurprising tho.

Maybe. Sort of depends what happens with EE this season. If he's good, the option gets picked up and Vaughn probably gets the kid gloves treatment. If Vaughn has a great 2020 and EE is meh, I wouldn't be surprised to see Vaughn OD 2021. But yah, most likely won't see Vaughn until late April/early May 2020, and that is fine with me.

I see very little chance he isn't up before June 1. Gun to head, I'd say early May. Super two deadline is usually late to mid June. I think after Kopech and Madrigal the days of being cute are over for the time being.

I would bet a large sum of money Madrigal is both not on the opening day roster and barring an injury, called up before the super 2 deadline. The Sox aren't going to give AF about the super 2. They want the extra year.

Lol well played.

Some high quality analysis going on in here.

No

I mean Leury and Madrigal are perfectly fine to fill in for a couple weeks. They're not going to punt a year for 15 games when they have acceptable options. Plus Madrigal has a grand total of 314 plate appearances above A ball. Its not like they're artificially holding him down like they would have been with Robert.

Overall I did pretty well. Estimates on Bumgarner, Ozuna, Hamels, Didi and Moustakas were pretty off, but the rest I either nailed or was in the ball park. I still do find the Bum, Ozuna, Didi and Mous deals pretty strange either for player or team. In hindsight, not sure what I was thinking with Hamels. Was pretty short on Cole as well. Fun little game, glad I participated.

Can Aquino play any defense? His metrics don't look great, but he would be kind of a fun platoon mate for Mazara. Certainly no room for him on the Reds at this point.

I dont think there is any chance, honestly.

Bullet dodged. What a garbage deal this would have been for the Sox, and the Reds are nuts.

Fulmer will be last guy in the pen to start the year IMO. Unless his ST is straight garbage, they’ll give him one last chance.

For a guy that talks about Jose’s chewing an awful lot, you sure do know all the dip lingo.

I literally just said it’s whatever. The Sox wanted to take care of their guy. But they paid him between $15-20M more than anyone else would have, maybe more. It was unnecessary.