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The next Vieira. Worth a shot, he very well may not even make it thru the offseason.

Julio Urias - tho he would cost way more than I'd want to pay

Lol, what? You're complaining about K:BB ratio and then suggest Santana. Santana is an awful fit for RF, and terrible defender.

That's a big time offer for Marte.

I'd love for the Twins to fork over $100M to Bumgarner.

Thank you, Sir.

There is a more detailed post on the topic I did a few months back.

Hahn has said it multiple times - that's all I can tell you. The reasons would be that he is going to be on an innings limit in 2020 and starting him in AAA with kid gloves would mean that he wouldn't have to be shut down in August. And two - if he spends a couple months in AAA, Sox get a year of control back. Basically, if he breaks camp with the Sox, he gets shut down in August and you lose a year of control. If you start him in AAA, you lose maybe 25-30 innings in 2020 when he's pitching in the minors, but you get the year of control back, AND he doesn't need to get shut down in August when potentially the Sox are battling for a WC spot.

Its out there. He said it in the long podcast/ Q&A thing he did with Garfein a couple months ago. Also has said it a few times in interviews since then. I am not just making it up, but I am also not going to go dig out the quote for you. @Chicago White Sox back me up here.

He wasn't a FA. It was an extension. That hampered their ability to spend money elsewhere for years and years and years.

I am aware of all of this. How'd those Santana, Hughes and Nolasko (not Nicasio) contracts work out? The Twins are a super cheap org. Unfortunately they are now run by two dudes who absolutely know what they're doing, but they're going to have serious financial restraints, and their window is now.

Rick has has stated multiple times in interviews this offseason that Michael Kopech is starting the year in AAA.

I am not even sure I consider the Twins that much of threat. They still have 2 gigantic holes in the rotation (3 for the first 40 games), a hole at 1B or 3B, horrific IF defense, and their best OF can't stay on the field for more than week. The chances the Twins repeat their miracle 2019 is extremely low. They look like a slightly above .500 team right now. I suspect they'll sign some more pitching, and be the ALC favorite, but they have a lot of work to do as well, and have shown little ability to add impact FA. If you guy's think the Sox are cheap, the largest FA contract in franchise history to a position player is 3/$24M to Jason fuckin' Castro. Imagine that.

Our GM has said otherwise. But feel free to ignore the information provided.

Man, if the Sox sign Castellanos, I hope the first year goes well and it comes without a NTC. Just seems like a guy we'll be wanting to improve on within 18 months. Committing to 67% of your OF defense being well below average for the next 4 seasons usually doesn't turn out well. I'd way rather find our long term RF in next year's FA class. Maybe Adolfo will explode in the meantime and we won't even need to. Castellanos definitely makes 2020 a better team, but I just hate the fit with the Abreu extension.

I mean, Kopech really only needs to be in AAA until late May. 20 MLB starts sounds about right.

haha, so hard to know sometimes with all the craziness that gets posted here.

JFC, say it ain't so.

Still interested. Higher the buy-in the better as far as I am concerned. Anything less than $200, I am probably out - just not worth the time commitment. As mentioned previously, I am a yahoo fantasy guy. Don't really care to debate the positives/negatives of the yahoo platform vs. others, but its what I use and I am not going to add a league in a different platform. If you guys elect to go with a different platform, that is completely fine with me, I will just pass. @iWiN4PreP, either way, thanks for trying to set this up.

Revert back to previous ways = making short sighted moves that hamper the future success of the organization in year that was always a pipedream to compete anyway. But those 81 wins in 2020 with Betts will be oh so sweet when he signs a $350M deal with the Dodgers in February 2021.

We're all welcome to our own opinions. You're a smart baseball guy, and I definitely respect your opinion. But the fact that you think we went through this incredibly painful process just to revert back to our old ways in the 11th hour is strange to me. But to each their own. In the incredibly unlikely event the White Sox acquire Mookie Betts, I will be VERY excited. He is a wonderful player. I just think it is a very short sighted move assuming the return includes significant pieces of the future - Reynaldo, Cease, Madrigal, etc. all included. Just glad to see you've at least changed your tune from moving Cease for Betts to ReyLo for Betts. That is slightly less horrific. If we can get him for Dunning + Basabe + Sheets, go get him Rick! But we both know that ain't happenin'.

And also leaves 2020 wildly short on pitching to actually be "all in", and ~$30M less to fix it. If the Sox trade Reynaldo in a package for Mookie Betts, and actually want to go all in on 2020, they better be prepared to also pony up for Cole/Stras and another 2nd/3rd tier FA SP, thereby having a 2020 payroll north of $160M. Otherwise none of it works.

First of all, its not weird. Michael Kopech is at most going to throw 170 innings total next seasons (AAA and MLB). If he starts in the big leagues, he's shut down by August 1st. If he starts in AAA, works once per week in short stints, eventually working up to 4-5 inning outings, and is called up in late May/early June - the Sox should then have him unimpeded through the rest of the season, AND they get the extra year of control. Also, Rick Hahn has said Kopech is starting in AAA multiple times. Dismiss the available information to fit your Mookie Betts wishes if you so desire, but the chances of Kopech breaking camp with the team are rather small.

This would require a payroll approaching $175M in 2020. Obviously not happening.

To be fair, there are only like a handful of intelligent people pushing for the Sox to acquire Mookie Betts. All the crazies on Twitter that don't know what they're talking about can be mostly dismissed.