Sleepy Harold

They've seemed to be getting a lot better results from the INTL market as of late but your main point rings true. In the grand scheme of things adding another complex league team isn't all that expensive when you consider a major league team's budget. The fact that they don't do it never made sense to me (outside of not wanting to spend the $ to do it).

Hernandez is rumored to be 500k, so that brings the total down to that 2.4M area. And yes there are several teams that have multiple DSL clubs. Assuming I counted correctly, the Sox are one of 11 teams to only have one DSL team. I believe it to be incredibly dumb and short-sighted given the potential return they could get from being able to roster/play more talent.

if anyone wanted to laugh at another bad Mets fan trade proposal

They're the original signees (outside of a couple low bonus guys), so "plenty of money", about 2.4M, remains available. They said that some signings from Venezuela should be coming through soon, so how much more that takes out of the remaining $ is yet to be seen (I do believe the 2.4M amount does reflect the rumored Angelo Hernandez bonus amount).

We need to keep our robot overlords happy so they won't crash the site again. No slandering of robot umps allowed

Sitting out games when? In Birmingham? He had an injury in Kanny that caused him to miss some time.

for those that want to follow along

According to MLBTR, the numbers are the projections White Sox Lucas Giolito (5.080): $10.8MM Reynaldo Lopez (5.004): $3.3MM Dylan Cease (3.089): $5.3MM Jose Ruiz (3.048): $1MM Michael Kopech (3.041): $2.2MM

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/01/2023-mlb-arbitration-tracker.html

That person has tried (and failed numerous times) playing "insider" this off-season