ChiSoxFanMike

To me, the apprehension in regards to signing Machado to play SS is more about having to shift Tim Anderson to some other position than anything else. Don't get me wrong, by no means should TA7 prevent the Sox from going after Machado, but Anderson improved significantly defensively towards the end of last year. Signing Machado would force the Sox to either move Anderson to 2B, which would displace Moncada, or CF where he has no experience...and the Sox would still have no answer at 3B.

Am I the only one that doesn't really want Machado if he insists on playing shortstop?

Marcus Stroman couldn't possibly know that Machado is going to the Yankees, right? Seems far fetched that a player on a totally different team would know that before everyone else.

The scary thing is that Peavy is clearly a grown man and I'm like 99% sure English is his first language.

They need to fix that god awful bullpen first and foremost. Harper or no Harper, they won't win anything with the bums they have right now.

Yes it is lmao

Calm down Tony...

How?

Yuck...

Wrong thread...my bad

On a somewhat related note, how much do you guys think Machado will ultimately sign for? I'll say 350 million.

My thoughts: If he was going to sign with the Yankees, I feel like the meeting would have been much longer to discuss the terms of the contract if nothing else.

My first inclination was that a short meeting with the Yankees is a good thing for the Sox, so that's what I'm going with.

Yeah, we're going to hear a ton of how Machado was "completely blown away" by the Yankees and Phillies over the next couple days. At this point I'm not even going to bother worrying about it, whatever happens happens.

Does this have any impact on the Sox pursuit of Harper/Machado?

I'm all for this.

I definitely agree. The market just isn't as is big as these guys were hoping for. I think it's down to the Sox/Dodgers for Harper and the Sox/Phillies/Yankees for Machado. If Reinsdorf is willing to pay up, there is certainly reason to think that the Sox could get both.

Who needs Bryce Harper when you can have Daniel Descalso!

Out of curiosity, what makes you feel this optimistic?

I definitely agree with the assertion that Machado is a better fit for the Sox from a positional standpoint. Moncada is probably the best internal option to play 3B long term but I would prefer to keep him at 2B if at all possible. I don't know where that leaves Madrigal but they can figure that out when the time comes. The Sox should be able to count on Eloy and Robert to take 2 of the outfield spots so they should only have to fill 1 spot. That shouldn't be too hard considering they have like half a dozen quality outfield prospects and can always look for external options as well.

Why do people hate Peavy (the player, not the SoxTalk member)? It wasn't his fault he got hurt.

As of now, I'll say Machado to the Sox and Harper to the Dodgers.

He's a troll. Disregard everything he says.

LaRoche, Samardzija, Shields, and Engel come to mind right away for me.

What happened to the guy who got the Justin Bour signing right and then said the Dodgers were getting Harper?