And if so, would you be interested in taking on his contract if you were the White Sox.  

This seems exactly like the kind of desperate all-in move we’d see from the White Sox one year from now if they don’t finish with over 80 wins.

Right now, the front office and local media can still probably sell the fanbase on this as one last “transition” year to competitiveness.

Edited December 11, 20196 yr by caulfield12

Hmm, let me think about this for a moment....hell no!

It depends. On one hand, it would be doing yankees a favor. One good thing we've learned is the lux tax is real and effective, and with the cole deal the yankees will have to dance with it in the coming years. So in theory that leaves players the sox can go for in FA.

In theory, in practice they just can't seem to do it.

So then there's him. Severely flawed but the potential to be so productive.

I don't know though, I actually have more reservations on a long term deal with him than basically anyone else. He really could become difficult to shed if he starts to physically deteriorate as maybe was the case last year.

If they paid for $164M of his contract I’d think about it... so essentially no

NYY is going all in and he's apart of it, don't see it...yet

Not a fan......

Only thing that keeps me from punching this idea in the balls is the fact that Stanton had a historically insane season when he worked with Frank Menechino.  But yeah, outside that, too much money, too many injury bugs.

So many injuries, id pass

No way. 

How do I put this nicely? Fuck no.

If they eat half the salary, I'd at least think about it.

Why do we need him? We have Mazara now.

Doesn't he still have his No Trade Clause?

Wouldn't do it. He misses 30-50 games every season and with age that will get worse.