Jose Abreu

If that's true, you should call the sales reps and inform them of that (if you haven't yet). I heard they've been unusually inquisitive this offseason.

-Michael Scott -Lauri Markkanen

By then, you hopefully won't be needing one!

This is interesting

What, the days of Dan Clark and Facebook sources weren't interesting to you???

With all these new leaks, I would keep Bucket's post from yesterday in the back of my mind.

That might not be a bad thing. Also, raBBit tweeted positively about it the other day. If the Phillies get Machado, I think we get Harper. If we get Machado, I think the Phillies get Harper. I don't see either team getting outbid twice.

I meant on the tweet itself

I love how all the replies are people who find it funny, and then there's Peavy44 taking it literally and getting angry

I can see this happening too

Random Reddit rumor saying Machado to White Sox will be confirmed tomorrow

Is Theo Epstein really a great judge of someone's character...?

Because nobody cares what a bunch of east coast blowhards think

Uncle Gio hustles more anyway.

Listen to it again then

I interpreted it as in general but not sure. This all starts around the 36:10 mark of today's episode

Exactly. This is an aggressive, all-in strategy, and those are the strategies you need when you're courting a generational talent.

He elaborated and said he predicts the winning bid to be more like 8/270

I should clarify, I think the contact said to hold off on tweeting it for a few hours or something like that

On RLR today, Dave said that the Sox current offer of 7 years, 245-250 million currently has us in the lead for Machado, but his contact told him not to tweet it

Not sure if you missed it but I was the first to give you props in this thread

Thanks for refuting your own point, as the only player with a higher OBP the past 4 years for us is Abreu. Thus, this is indeed exactly what the team needs, to quote you.

If we're doing this, I'd go Jay Moncada Machado Jimenez Abreu Alonso RF FA Castillo Anderson