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If the question starts with “did we go cheap...” and “we” means “white Sox” the answer is “probably”

Blue Jays don’t need a dh. Unless they can convert excess OF into an arm, they’ll be rotating their outfielders. I was hoping to have a similar scenario for the Sox, but isn’t looking likely.

Pirates have a fantastic history, better than ours. But come on man...imagine being a die hard pirates fan right now. Must be torture. I feel for them, that’s all I’m saying.

Being a sox fan feels hard sometimes. Imagine being a pirates fan. Man, gotta feel for those guys. I’m a taillon fan so I’d like to add him to the mix, but as always depends on the cost. He isn’t really what we need right now, which is dependable innings.

Lucky for him the other team wasn’t interested.

I wouldn’t be shocked if he doesn’t have any concrete offers and just conversations.

I worked in the blue Jays front office in 2009. Harry Einbinder had an office to my left. Kevin Briand was across the hall. And, no joke, paul Beeston shared a wall on the right. At no point were the white Sox serious suitors for halladay and blue Jays scouts were bearish on beckham.

That wasn’t going to happen

Can’t wait

Imagine that

I have a hard time believing there’s reachable middle ground on what the brewers want and what the Sox are willing to part with. It’s fun to deliberate in the boring times of the off-season, but let’s get a (realistic) starter and a backup catcher.

Or happ lol

Twins probably going to sign rosenthal or some other good rp. but, really....nothing he said can’t be pieced together by anyone who follows the game closely.

“Can’t we sign a starter who is always healthy and good for next to nothing?!” come on

I don’t understand what’s so hard to understand. You pay him accordingly. If he wasn’t hurt all the time he’d make bank...

Sorry fellas not sure what I did wrong here.

The difference is piazza hit the snot out of the ball. And grandal is a good catcher. It’s a bad comp by a bad evaluator or talent.

Wouldn’t be shocked if he renegotiated his contract at some point.

I find it fascinating how many people want to make bad trades.

On the plus side, we can have Gary Bobby tuxedo t-shirt night.

Is this our first Aussie player?

Kind of surprised he didn’t get more.

Grandal reminds me of Catcher version of Alexei. He’s really good at it, but he makes it hard to tell sometimes. His biggest issue, in my opinion, is he doesn’t have a natural feel for pitch selection/reading the hitter. Not a small thing, but also easy to work around.

“Dram up upside” was meant to be “dream on upside”