Bob Sacamano

Exactly. We've been talking in circles for 2+ months.

Spring for sure. Spring Training,...tbd.

Just ask his burner account, poppysox.

LMFAO. That was a good joke that made me laugh for sure.

Wow. Fucking ridiculous.

To be minor league hitting coach. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/02/nicky-delmonico-white-sox-minor-league-hitting-coach.html

Yeah you might have teams head into the season thinking they have a chance, only to sell off at the trade deadline.

Yeah, the fringe contenders definitely just punt the season. You would have maybe 4-5 teams actually trying if only the best team went straight to the World Series (can't even say playoffs). Would actually make the league less competitive haha

He's talking about how they tried to sign someone but they misread the market. Semien seems to be the guy.

It's better than your idea of the best team in each league just advancing straight to the World Series.

I'm gonna go with no.

Sigh...as expected I suppose.

He actually makes sense for the Rangers if they want to bring him back for less than they gave up.

I don't think they will move Keuchel but I bet Kimbrel gets moved. It might be enough to bring in Conforto. I feel like he will sign for 4 years in the $64-$80 mill range, unless he gets a high AAV one year deal (higher than qualifying offer) somewhere.

At the current payroll? No, I don't think they would increase the payroll where they currently are at. I think they deal Kimbrel though and that will open space in the budget.

Defense defense defense Definitely not one of our strengths.

Conforto for RF and Simmons/Iglesias for 2B. Let’s go.

Depending on who else they sign, I could be open to number 3. Definitely no to the first 2.

This sucks

Then get rid of 2 teams and then realign. Either way you can’t do no inter league with the current setup.

Was waiting for this response. Didn’t take long.

I was thinking the same thing when I noticed it lol

This about sums it up from an MLBTR chat earlier this week and pretty much how I feel: Urban Shocker 12:02 After this week's labor discussions, are you more optimistic a deal will get done by mid-February? Steve Adams 12:04 I'm less optimistic. The more people we talk to in and around the game, the less likely it seems. It's great that the two sides talked, but what actual progress was there? MLB said OK to a bonus pool for pre-arb players, but they countered with $95MM less than the players wanted in that pool. (Admittedly, the players' $105MM pool seems ... aggressive.) MLB is willing to up the minimum salary, but barely at all. The proposed increase doesn't even match inflation. When you consider that the min. salary should've been expected to rise to ~$580K this year anyhow, in keeping pace with the prior CBA, they're offering about $35K extra -- less than a 6% increase. That's in no way proportional to the increase in MLB revenues since the onset of the prior CBA. 12:05 That doesn't even get into the league's apparent offer of a lottery pick for the top three spots in the draft, which is mostly a nothingburger. No team that tanks right now is doing so under the guarantee it'll get the top pick. Tanking teams are happy to land in the top three, so that changes nothing really. 12:06 It just doesn't feel like there's been anything meaningful other than the fact that the two parties actual sat down Monday and weren't SO pissed off at one another that they refused to do it a second time. The "progress" that's been made is extremely minimal.

Yeah. It was cool they talked earlie this week but in all honesty, nothing was accomplished.

I picked 2/8 as the date an agreement would be reached (MLBTR had a contest to predict the date). I am not optimistic on that pick.