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I really don't think so.

But do you really think they'd actually produce 5 or so black and white custom Machado gloves just for a troll job? That would be pretty expensive.

Machado wouldn't have ordered black and white gloves if he wasn't playing for a team whose primary colors are black and white. The optimist in me is assuming we're just working out final details now and then moving onto other moves

Not for long, though!

I know this was posted in the Machado thread but I think it's worth sharing here too. Offers some interesting perspective on our pursuit of Harper and is relevant to many of the new posts in this thread.

A trusted reporter saying that Manny will sign in the next few days is far more of a timeline than anything else we've gotten this offseason

Especially since Hector just gave us an actual timeline

When Rosenthal credited him for the Joc rumor, she tweeted "way to go, my son!" or something like that

The Giants being listed as the favorite tells you all you need to know about those odds

It's the idea that an athlete will likely not succeed because more advanced players in their positions are taller.

He's only a little over a month late on this but it's a new tweet so here

Interesting logic- not sure how you feel about Madrigal but I do know that one of the main reasons Keith Law is not a big fan of him is because there aren't too many 5'7 2Bs.

Paul George is my MVP pick

They wouldn't have met with him 2-3 times early on in the process if they weren't serious about signing him.

I don't know about this. I actually wrote a blog post last week about this very idea. I think the White Sox have the upper hand because they, unlike the Phillies, are not expected to compete this year, so they are able to just wait and wait and wait because their 2019 roster isn't the priority

I really have no idea what all these people are talking about. For some reason today, everyone just collectively decided that he's not coming I guess

So if Machado is playing third base, you still want Moncada to be moved to third base? Wouldn't Machado then be blocking Moncada?

A great way to tell when the guys are just looking for attention is when they claim that a signing will be announced 4 days from now. If one of these guys actually wanted to sound believable, they wouldn't try and act like the sides have reached an agreement and are deciding to wait 4 days for whatever reason.

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He deleted all the tweets soon after they were posted here and changed his account handle

I've gotten the sense that a lot of Sox fans are expecting Eloy to slash something like .295/.340/.500 right away. That would be great, and he probably is the type of player that can kill MLB pitching right away. Some of his projections even suggest that such a slash line is possible. But I just hope that we aren't entering a situation where Eloy slashes .260/.320/.450 and people get disappointed, given that such a line would be above average, especially for a 22 year old

I've ventured to the White Sox reddit before. I must say it was a really weird community, where most of the conversation was about random, unrelated topics. Actual White Sox discussion was suppressed and stuff like that was the center of discussion. I'd imagine some Sox fans are turned off by that culture so they use Soxtalk, Twitter, etc. to engage with fellow fans instead.

But don't you play for the Rangers now?

That guy has been spewing random rumors all winter and has never been right