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Yah...tried not to be too pie in the sky. Would definitely prefer Welker, Lambert, Pint and Tapia...but that seems like a lot for an intriguing but often injured pitcher that only has 3 years of control and neutral value aging 1B on a 1 year deal.

Honestly tho... Something like: Rockies Receive: Abreu, Rodon and Steele Walker Sox Receive: Colton Welker, Riley Pint, Ramiel Tapia and a lottery ticket (Breiling Eusebio maybe?) Who says no? Rockies looks a tad thin on OF depth in the minors, but should be covered in IF long term no with Rodgers, Story and Arenado. Would love to get Lambert or Rolison in this deal instead of a final lottery ticket....maybe including Walker could do that. Let's the Sox throw Tapia out in CF this season and see what he can do. At this point, I'd do it. 2020 is fucked. Trade Rodon.

Caulfield will be sure to remind us daily.

Send them Abreu and Rodon for Welker + Pint + something. Lets burn this MF'er to the ground.

Who TF is Hahn earmarking his money for now? Its Harper or bust. Pay the fucking man.

Seriously tho. I am not more interested in Harper than ever before. Pay the man his money to avoid spending top dollar on 2nd tier FA the next 2 offseasons.

Well, fuck me.

Yah, was mainly just spitballing to try and come up with a fair comparison for the age gap.

I agree, it does seem reasonable.

I think he's beating 6/$219M fairly handily next offseason. He's 15 months older than Machado. So for apples to apples comparison, call it 2 years and 3 months older next offseason. Shave off 2 years off Machado's deal and he'd be looking at 8/$240M. So yah, I suppose I wouldn't blame him for taking 6/$219M based on the process Machado and Harper had to go through this offseason. But I still think he'd want to explore FA now that he's made it this far, unless he loves COL and want to be a Rockie for his career..

I'd take 10/$300M over 7/$245M.

For those that don't want to read it, they offered him 7/$245M including this season. So basically a 6 year $219M extension after the $26M he will make this season. I don't think he's going to take that.

Moncada swining a hot stick early. Love to see it.

Signing CarGo, Span and say...Logan Forsythe in the next couple weeks would be the most White Sox thing in the world to do. It wouldn't even surprise me at this point.

When they have a team that supports doing such. We all hoped for 2020, but more likely 2021 now.

You guys find a video feed?

Every single team in major league baseball would do the same thing that the White Sox and the Blue Jays are going to do. Every. Single. One. Eloy may not like it, but I doubt he's going to hang it over the Sox heads 7 years down the line. If he is as good as people hope he is, he isn't resigning with the Sox anyhow. The Sox also reportedly offered Eloy a contract extension late last summer and would have brought him up then. He, understandably, rejected that. So, it was partially his call.

That would literally be the dumbest thing this organization could possibly do.

No stream even for mlb.tv customers (which I am), as far as I can tell. Audio only. shitty.

Big time typo from FS. Must be a hold over from last years article. Santiago signed a minor league deal with the Mets. Cedeno with the Cubs. Gomez with the Rangers. Rondon is still a FA.

Win, Win. Obvious loss.

Fair point. The third (and highly unlikely) option is they're willing to pay the price, but originally preferred Machado, for obvious reasons. They thought they had Machado sealed for the deal that's been rumored, and SD swooped in and stole him at the closing table. That's obviously on the White Sox and they done fuc*ked it right up....but its still conceivably possible that they're willing to go to $330M or whatever the number for Harper. But yah, i'd be floored if it happened, and I think its far more likely Harper told them from the get go that they'd need to pay a hefty premium for him to even consider an offer.

It just doesn't add up to me that the Sox were one of the few teams interested enough to meet with him in Vegas in December when the price tag was rumored to be $400M, apparently host him in Chicago (never officially confirmed, but UC Harper banner, etc.), and then he sits on the FA market for 75 more days without getting his ask, and now they're not interested? Doesn't make any sense. I don't think they'll offer what it would take to get him, but they're either still interested, or Harper has outright told him there is no interest on his end.

Other people have reported in recent days that the sox are in still contact, etc.

This actually gives me more confidence that the Sox are still involved.