Bob Sacamano

MadBum is a guy everyone can see turning into James Shields the second he signs here. Except the Sox would be paying him more.

Yeah they would need to shoot higher than Marco and Ray. And definitely not 1 year of Betts lol

Only a couple people are saying to trade for Marco. And the people saying trade prospects for pitching want guys who are longer term pieces other than, say Mookie Betts ?

Right. And he just met with the Yankees yesterday.

Dear lord people over analyze every sentence lmao

Bob says they haven't entered into negotiations yet with MadBum.

One is to discuss plan-B options (name got changed to include their current target). But they are different thread topics.

They would be fine. Guys just don't like when it happens against them.

Give me Ryu (3 year deal) and Taijuan Walker (or another interesting non-tender).

100000%. Can't believe I got my hopes up again lol

I don't think anyone was coming that close to $73M for Grandal, IMO.

We needed his brother in law!

Means people don't want to play for you yet, despite what some may say here.

But people want to play for the Sox! ...or so I was told.

Good point.

LOL

How much more? Phillies: "We offer you $118M!" Sox: "We offer you 118M....and one penny!"

God I don't want Bumgarner nor Keuchel. Thanks a lot Jerry.

Watch it be like 4/80 with incentives.

It's only $2 mill more a year than what a lot on here said they would do.

I would agree if I thought they would go after Cole and/or Strasburg.

One thing is for certain: posters here need to stop acting like they know what other teams can and cannot afford.

Don't have to worry about that...

There was some other list I saw yesterday on Twitter that showed pitches that were called balls that were either a ball's length off or over the plate and Wheeler was on the list. I don't know if it was ordered from most to least or not but Reynaldo Lopez had the top spot.

There's a lot of interesting options out there that got non-tendered. Wish the last couple off-seasons would have had those kind of guys when we were tanking.