7 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:

The Sox have room for him. The Phillies, not so much.

Hahn hasn’t shown he is a great GM, but he is a bright guy. To think they just made this trade just  hoping it may move the needle with Machado would be hard to believe. IMO, if this doesn’t work, they should be banned from playing anything but circus music at GRF in 2019.

When you are down and feeling g blue just whistle.

Always look on the bright side of life.

 

1 minute ago, elwood5892 said:

Well hopefully they don’t send Yolmer Sanchez in a Benny the Bull suit to the meeting with Machado. 

That seems like a good idea tbh

2 minutes ago, Tony said:

Explain why acquiring a player for one year (the 2020 option vests with 550 PA's, they can take care of that if they want) in a rebuilding year for a fringe prospect is a "debacle." Please. 

Because it’s not helping at all if we just turn around and dump Abreu to save money.

UNLESS THAT MEANS HARPER OR MACHADO.

Biggest point is we are helping the Indians offload even more salary...which opens their competitive window into 2021 and 2022 depending on what they get back for Kluber and who else they can sign.   Their only bad remaining contract is Kipnis, and that’s only for 2019 with a buyout for 2020.

What's up with raBBit is that he's probably right. Not definitely, but probably. It takes a long time to wash the stink of failure off a team, and this offseason will likely end up showing just how far you can go and still fail.

Machado 3B, Alonso 1B, Abreu DH, Palka as the top bat off the bench.

1 minute ago, aeichhor said:

 

Good ole Bruce. The last to report the news. 

Just now, caulfield12 said:

Because it’s not helping at all if we just turn around and dump Abreu to save money.

UNLESS THAT MEANS HARPER OR MACHADO.

Biggest point is we are helping the Indians offload even more salary...which opens their competitive window into 2021 and 2022 depending on what they get back for Kluber and who else they can sign.   Their only bad remaining contract is Kipnis, and that’s only for 2019 with a buyout for 2020.

They can sign Abreu after 2019.

It’s been speculated Abreu might have more value than we’re thinking. If that’s the case I think we’d be surprised by the return. 

1 minute ago, aeichhor said:

 

Bruce can't even get the first report right. 

Is Call really a fringe prospect? Seems kinda mean. He has a decent shot to make a roster eventually, fringe prospect to me means some crappy a baller.

14 minutes ago, Baron said:

 

I’m actually getting excited about our chance of getting Machado now!  They seem like genuinely good friends in the video.  Sox are going for it!    raBBit is well known and respected I think.  Well enough known to be used as a smoke screen.  Machado!  

10 minutes ago, fathom said:

Some people are crazy on here. This should make people optimistic.

Read this post, noting the author if you hate this.

This is the White Sox doing literally every thing they can to win this. If they go down, they are going down swinging.  I can't ask anymore of them.

Is this really for Call?  Damn.  Alonzo should have been close to free.  I was looking at Call as a future trade piece for somebody good.  

Just now, bmags said:

Is Call really a fringe prospect? Seems kinda mean. He has a decent shot to make a roster eventually, fringe prospect to me means some crappy a baller.

Or like mid/upper-20s reliever.

13 minutes ago, Eminor3rd said:

Alonso is a substantially better defender than Abreu.

But yeah, this means Palka has to *gulp*

play the

 

 

field...

 

!

Haha it would be nice to see a 1B help guys like Timmy and Moncada with the throwing errors though. Machado is already damn good at 3B so I don't worry about him in that regard if he signs here.

4 minutes ago, aeichhor said:

 

lol he can't even cite the right source

Last time that I was so emotionally invested in a free agent signing was when all the signals were pointing to the Sox signing Tori Hunter, then he went to the Angels. 

It would be less risky if they weren’t helping our main divisional rival get better simultaneously.

 

2 minutes ago, Jerksticks said:

Is this really for Call?  Damn.  Alonzo should have been close to free.  I was looking at Call as a future trade piece for somebody good.  

Has t been finalized but that’s the only name I’ve heard.

Just now, caulfield12 said:

It would be less risky if they weren’t helping our main divisional rival get better simultaneously.

 

Eh I kinda felt Alonso would be moved somewhere anyway.

15 minutes ago, fathom said:

Some people are crazy on here. This should make people optimistic.

100% agree with fathom.  This is tremendous news.

4 minutes ago, soxfan2014 said:

They can sign Abreu after 2019.

Why would Machado want to sign up for a team with Yonder Alonso as its best “proven” hitter?

1 minute ago, sox71 said:

Last time that I was so emotionally invested in a free agent signing was when all the signals were pointing to the Sox signing Tori Hunter, then he went to the Angels. 

I remember thinking the Sox would land Cespedes. Worked out for the best but really wanted him at the time.

3 minutes ago, daggins said:

What's up with raBBit is that he's probably right. Not definitely, but probably. It takes a long time to wash the stink of failure off a team, and this offseason will likely end up showing just how far you can go and still fail.

Sad but true. Why on earth would machado choose us over the yankees? Why would harper choose us over the dodgers? All they have to do is be in the ballpark in terms of $$$ and sox are screwed. Sad but fucking true. Sucks to suck. The rebuild will need to produce multiple world series contendors before we are actually considered for top FAs. Theres a lot of work to do to dig out of the suck hole.