Jose Abreu

I could be wrong, but I feel like if that were the case, they could've just picked up the option and made a trade later. In other words, why did they have to desperately make a trade before picking up the option if they didn't have payroll concerns?

The same Cubs that just had no choice but to trade Drew Smyly in order to afford Cole Hamels’ option? I’m not too worried about them

It's because he's "injured" and how dare anybody assume he's sitting out for any other reason, the general soreness is just too unbearable. That's actually the angle/tone he took with the media which annoyed me even more.

When Zach is surrounded with guys who can actually shoot (Lauri, Valentine, Portis, etc.) his scoring efficiency and assist rate are only going to get better.

So basically, if we don't get Machado/Donaldson/a big name 3B, Moncada will be moving there. Not sure if I like that, it's probably not really wise to move high ceiling defenders over for guys who are in single A

Ha, they went back and added us after being called out that we weren't mentioned anywhere in the article.

"profession"

And then when they go over the teams that weren't mentioned, they don't even mention that the White Sox weren't mentioned.

3/93 with incentives for Kershaw.

This is said in jest in case it's not clear but still funny, given the black and white shoe release, black and white jacket in the video game cover, now this

3/90-100 I guess, I saw 95 in a tweet by a local LA guy that has since been deleted

3/95 is what I'm seeing

I'm thinking he chose black and white because any other color would cause endless media speculation. Example: Red means he's going to Philly! Dark blue means he's a Yankee! etc. The media doesn't know a team that wears black and white as its primary color exists so he made a good choice here

I could see us signing Brantley for a year or two to complement a big signing

Fegan is much better than most alternatives but you have to learn to read his analysis while assuming that everything written has been lined with an extra layer of pessimism

Only 11/2 and we've already reached *this* point of free agency, but I'm not complaining

Pretty sure it was a joke but he has indeed been unbearably pessimistic and unnecessarily critical of every single thing the Sox do lately.

Bryce Harper confirmed!

All the anti-Trubisky stuff out there on Twitter and ESPN today seems to stem from the misconception that all of his numbers come from screen passes. If you think that, you haven't watched him play. Trubisky is the QB of an air raid offense, Bortles is the QB of a run-first offense, and the former QB is pretty much objectively better than the latter. I don't think Mitch is a top 10 quarterback or anything but the hate he's receiving in the midst of the best season by a Bears QB of all-time is pretty puzzling. If he finishes the season at a similar pace then he's firmly in the top half of NFL quarterbacks in my opinion.

It's also a pretty stupid national "thing"

I'm pretty surprised that you feel this way, given your disdain for Reinsdorf/the front office. Unless you think that such a signing would be a bad thing for the organization?

He had pretty good peripherals in AAA last year. I'd rather give him starts than Dylan Covey

Yes, he was like a top 25 in baseball guy around 2012