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For about the 1,000th time, Kopech is starting in AAA.

Thanks Bennett. You can go back to Twitter now.

He's also a ground ball machine and has really limited homers. He is a good fit for the Cell.

Per twitter. 1 year deal.

How anyone could be mad about this move is just so silly.

Curious to hear the dollars. Guessing $3-5M range.

He will be.

.290/.334/.455 career split against lefties.

Nice - totally cool with Gio as our #5 for the first couple months.

Not clear yet, but I would have to imagine so.

Just block him. If people stop responding to the troll, maybe he'll stop trolling.

Just out of curiosity - how did you "speak" with this guy?

Ahhh yes, that makes a little more sense. But yah, the Sox aren't trading for Lindor.

Why would the Indians trade Lindor to the White Sox? And why would the Indians have interest in a guy (Thompson) they could have just taken in the R5 draft?

Its not, because there is a guy with the same name as that twitter as a poster here. And its not eyeballs guy.

Seriously tho, I love the people that get made about minor league signings.

This guy has a really unfortunate neck tat, if I remember correctly. I actually think he's hit the Sox decently in his career.

@keikers43 is the twitter handle. Believe it is the poster @Kpet1010. Can't post twitter links atm, but basically said he got good info a trade is coming within 72 hours and its a big one. He admited it could be nothing, but he trusts his source. Seems to indicate in later tweets that it may be tied to the stinkybob twitter rumor about the Sox and Lindor. Probably nothing (especially if he's actually talking about Lindor), but just responding to the question.

I haven't read a ton about his restructure, but didn't basically all/most of his $29M guarantee just become performance bonuses? Why would anyone want to acquire Cespedes because even if he somehow performs, you're going to be paying out your nose for it. I doubt the Mets would cover all that upside - if they're gonna pay for it, I'm sure they're rather be the recipients of the good play.

Imagine being a Twins fan right now. The Twins are smack in the middle of their window and are being equally as cheap as the Sox. Can't wait for that team to crash back to earth in 2020.

Not really struggling, I just don't really think we'll see him hit 25+ homers. I think 15-18 range. Something like .275/.315/.450 sounds about right for his rookie year. Hope he walks a little more than he's shown in the minors. But plugging that in CF with + defense is such a huge step in the right direction. I definitely think he'll put up better slash lines as he matures, but hitting mlb pitching is really hard.

Mazara. I'd be surprised if Robert will hit more than 20 homers in the bigs next season.

I would be HAMMERING the over on 34 Eloy homers.

Mazara is a considerably better defender than Castellanos. Castellanos is a poor defender. Mazara is merely average.

Smoak nothing exciting, but super cheap deal. $4M in 2020 with a $1M buyout on a $5.5M team option for 21.