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My guess is Gordon is itching to sign and the more imminent the threat of the White Sox is the sooner the Royals pony up the dough. The Sox are just the desperate guy at the bar at 3:45 AM, not an attractive thing to be but you're always surprised how well it works.

We aren't getting both. Nvm I see what you meant. Than and then mean two different things.

He could very well have signed and be pending a physical. A lot of teams hold out on announcing signings until that's done to avoid guys being dumped back onto the market with the failed physical red flag. Keeps front offices in the good graces of agents and players. Can you remember the last time the Sox signed a FA and it was pending a physical? I don't bother to look.

Washington is still a possibility but they did get Murphy.

What time is it in Canada? Go to bed Joe.

My sharp detective skills lead me to believe he hasn't used Twitter much since October 2014.

Cespedes doesn't want to be loved anymore

Actually with the addition of Lawrie the Sox have more than a couple players (Avi amongst them, oddly) who are pretty good at seeing a lot of pitches. I know thats not the exact same thing as working a count, but it's not like the Sox need to be looking for tougher outs as much as just straight up mashers. Also Cespedes has reverse splits and would fit in the lineup as if he were a LHH.

Well he'll fall that much just by not facing Jose Quintana.

8 against 6.5 isn't much.

People want news even if there is none.

Well he already did bet his reputation when he put this on Twitter as if it were fact.

Sox fan got carried away, consider us jinxed.

I'd be extremely happy with either, but Cespedes is a guy I've wanted on the Sox for years.

Maybe the Sox wanted Cespedes all along and are just using Alex Gordon and, earlier in the offseason, Justin Upton to drive his price down. With all three of them out there plus Fowler, Parra etc. it's a buyers market.

Well if even if he's cheap and on a 1 year deal he still gets innings. If he's terrible it's not like the Sox get those innings back. Playing time is still an investment people.

Does anyone really want Latos? Maybe if he's extremely cheap but I think the odds of turning around pitching in the AL for the first time is pretty low.

Bad thought, wrong thought.

Well Detroit sounds like they want him back. And all of Cespedes teams (except the 2nd half of a lost season for the Red Sox) have been damn good.

Its obviously impossible the Sox sign Cespedes and Gordon, but it would be soooo Kenny to try.

I was not being entirely serious. Even though the unwillingness by teams to jump into big money contracts may make the big money contract a viable way to build a team again. Prices are going down.

Sign Cespedes and Gordon. Market inefficiencies are the new market inefficencies.

I think Gordon and Cespedes bring a lot of intangibles to the lineup, just in different ways. Cespedes as power hitting destroyer of world's and Gordon as a guy who keeps rally's going. Both are winners and I'd be fine with either one but would prefer Cespedes. Upton is a bum who draws a few walks for bad teams.

I've noticed over the last two seasons that he is quite good at hitting baseballs.

I'd rather DFA half of the guys the Sox have had playing every day over the last 3 years than DL them.