5 minutes ago, Saufley said:

If we lose out on Machado is Moustakas worth signing for a 2/3 year contract? I'm tired of losing 100 games a year and looking for improvement anywhere. I know we have Burger, but does anyone believe he will ever be our third baseman? Just wondering??

Not with Arenado and Rendon potentially hitting the free agent market next year.

 

Well these next 10 or so days should be miserable lol.

Just now, Sleepy Harold said:

 

Well these next 10 or so days should be miserable lol.

BALLS!

Another week and a half of torture at the very least. Smh.

 

Is it annoying to anyone else when you see people on twitter replying to the reporters.. " Announce Harper/Machado to the Sox" or is it just me?

1 minute ago, Sleepy Harold said:

 

Well these next 10 or so days should be miserable lol.

At least we know an end is coming. That's better than sitting in the dark wondering if this drags into February.

1 minute ago, TomPickle said:

Not with Arenado and Rendon potentially hitting the free agent market next year.

POTENTIALLY  is what scares me.

i guess that rumor from earlier in the week was made up. Let the waiting continue. 

 

8 minutes ago, Saufley said:

If we lose out on Machado is Moustakas worth signing for a 2/3 year contract? I'm tired of losing 100 games a year and looking for improvement anywhere. I know we have Burger, but does anyone believe he will ever be our third baseman? Just wondering??

No I don't believe Burger will ever be our 3b. However, I also note that Mike Moustakas was worth 2.4 fWAR last year, while Yolmer Sanchez was worth 1.7, and do not believe that is a significant enough difference to really believe that we'd be getting improvement worth our money, especially when you factor in the ages of each player.

7 minutes ago, Sleepy Harold said:

 

Well these next 10 or so days should be miserable lol.

Shut this thread down!

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Just now, EvilJester99 said:

Is it annoying to anyone else when you see people on twitter replying to the reporters.. " Announce Harper/Machado to the Sox" or is it just me?

Yeah to me it is, I think they'd do it if they had the info. 

Him prolonging his decision might actually favor the Sox. I would assume that statement confirms that offers have been made. Might mean the Yankees don't have a strong offer on the table and he really is contemplating elsewhere. Wishful thinking? Hahahaha

3 minutes ago, Whitesox27 said:

Another week and a half of torture at the very least. Smh.

 

Hopefully he sees Yonder during the holidays and he convinces Manny to sign with the Sox.

1 minute ago, Balta1701 said:

No I don't believe Burger will ever be our 3b. However, I also note that Mike Moustakas was worth 2.4 fWAR last year, while Yolmer Sanchez was worth 1.7, and do not believe that is a significant enough difference to really believe that we'd be getting improvement worth our money, especially when you factor in the ages of each player.

Thanks. That makes sense to me.

4 minutes ago, raBBit said:

i guess that rumor from earlier in the week was made up. Let the waiting continue. 

 

What rumor?

1 minute ago, CWSpalehoseCWS said:

Him prolonging his decision might actually favor the Sox. I would assume that statement confirms that offers have been made. Might mean the Yankees don't have a strong offer on the table and he really is contemplating elsewhere. Wishful thinking? Hahahaha

I think it's more than wishful thinking.  All of these national prognosticators acting as if this would be a slam dunk in the Yankees favor, well, maybe not.  If it was such a foregone conclusion, then why the wait until the new year?  Mayhaps we are in this more than we think or more than it seems publicly at the moment.  But I definitely think this is at least a good sign for the Sox.  

RIP Harper to Sox?

8 minutes ago, Sleepy Harold said:

 

Well these next 10 or so days should be miserable lol.

Good. Let Yonder keep selling the Sox on Christmas and New Years.

Better get that Check book ready now JR... Machado is going to get very expensive now

Just now, Whitesox27 said:

What rumor?

The rumor was that Machado loved the Sox so much he wanted to skip meeting with other teams and go right to the Sox. 

It was an unsubstantiated rumor from Facebook like that. Could have been made up in hopes to be right, I don’t know. For whatever reason, it caught steam here. Probably just the desire to have rumors 

2 minutes ago, DirtySox said:

RIP Harper to Sox?

goddammit. 

Sad news is the Sox will probably miss out on both.. oh well back to the rebuild. 

Well see you next year when we miss out on both.....

9 minutes ago, CWSpalehoseCWS said:

Him prolonging his decision might actually favor the Sox. I would assume that statement confirms that offers have been made. Might mean the Yankees don't have a strong offer on the table and he really is contemplating elsewhere. Wishful thinking? Hahahaha

At the very least - this pretty much verifies that the reports "Machado has made up his mind he's going to sign with the Yankees/Phillies" that we saw yesterday, those reports are simply false. He's going to weigh each offer, see if they shift, talk to family, etc, and even if he has a preference, it's not open and shut.

5 hours ago, raBBit said:

I think people should take the Dodgers more seriously. They have the most money of any team, they have the most creative front office, they have money to move associated to players that are good (Hi Cubs!) and they are conceivably Harper's preferred location. Plus they came up short of the trophy just barely to years in a row. They have all the depth a playoff team could need, now it's time for them to shed some of it and make way for another premium talent.  Perhaps the hold up is they want to rid themselves of Matt Kemp and another productive player as opposed to 2-3 productive players and keeping Kemp on a team where he doesn't fit. 

As I was saying...