November 3, 20196 yr On 10/31/2019 at 2:53 PM, fathom said: Wasting more international money to avoid paying the buy out The genius part of this is it doesn't actually cost the white sox any money. It's the allotment of what they can spend. Genius move for ownership at least as a fan that bonus money is pretty much the life blood of bringing in international talent. Cheap bastards
November 3, 20196 yr Slight over reaction as they still have $4M to spend. They might have a line on a new group of boat people coming over.
November 3, 20196 yr Author 26 minutes ago, pcq said: Slight over reaction as they still have $4M to spend. They might have a line on a new group of boat people coming over. No they dont
November 3, 20196 yr On 11/2/2019 at 6:35 AM, Thad Bosley said: Wonder if that even matters much to him, a billion dollars later. No, because he did win the WS and he has all the pictures and tapes to look at from 2005 to prove he's a success. When Jerry bought the Sox, their last WS appearance was 1959 and only other WS titles were 1906 and 1917. So his legacy in his mind is that one WS title.
November 4, 20196 yr Guys, has anyone considered the fact that the Sox will forefeit $500,000 in INTL spending if they sign a qualifying offer FA? http://m.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/qualifying-offer Assuming they're still allowed to keep/trade that money (i.e. it's not stripped), the two trades with Texas now make way more sense. If they're expecting to land a QO free agent they can't spend it anyways...think when we trade INTL money while in the penalty from Robert.
November 4, 20196 yr 9 minutes ago, username said: Guys, has anyone considered the fact that the Sox will forefeit $500,000 in INTL spending if they sign a qualifying offer FA? http://m.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/qualifying-offer Assuming they're still allowed to keep/trade that money (i.e. it's not stripped), the two trades with Texas now make way more sense. If they're expecting to land a QO free agent they can't spend it anyways...think when we trade INTL money while in the penalty from Robert. They will lose 500K in the following year's pool, and they will not be able to trade the money they forfeited during free agency.
November 4, 20196 yr Author 1 hour ago, username said: Got it, you 100% positive on that? If so then back to square 1. You cannot trade future bonus pools, you can only trade within the current year.
November 5, 20196 yr 6 hours ago, username said: Got it, you 100% positive on that? If so then back to square 1. It's basically all gone from this years pool money. Between who they did sign and what they traded away . If all the sources i was reading are correct it's possible they have slightly less than $500K left after I added up the cost of who they signed, how much they traded away and what the starting point was.
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