2 minutes ago, fathom said:

Dodgers just signed Pillar

Pollock probably hurt.

when the heck is the rule 5 draft happening?

Just now, bmags said:

when the heck is the rule 5 draft happening?

Believe it was cancelled with the CBA negotiations but stuff was constantly evolving so not 100% sure. 

1 minute ago, bmags said:

when the heck is the rule 5 draft happening?

cancelled.

2 minutes ago, raBBit said:

Believe it was cancelled with the CBA negotiations but stuff was constantly evolving so not 100% sure. 

Man that sucks.

9 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Who'd a thunk outfield defense is important?  This just means Pollock to the Sox for sure, lol.

Oops.

Stuck with Kimbrel again. 

I remember a time many years ago when we ended up with one of the best LH relievers in baseball because they were going to be a spring training roster cut and would have been exposed...Damaso Marte.  Pretty sure Thornton was the other one.  Although one would doubt it's Micker Adolfo or a White Sox reliever having similar success if given an opportunity.

What I got from this is that Micker Adolfo is going to be converted to a LH reliever.

16 minutes ago, bmags said:

did you guys see this

 

Yea, that's the conversation I was alluding to last night, false alarm and all.

2 minutes ago, Quin said:

What I got from this is that Micker Adolfo is going to be converted to a LH reliever.

No...that Kimbrel being on roster carries yet another danger. Which amounts to losing a bullpen arm we wouldn't have had to if not for this particular situation.

Everyone was already reconciled to losing Adolfo, so he becomes the most obvious aspect of any trade package at this point.

Along with an elevated risk of injury to Kimbrel.  The Sox would get roughly $8~10 million back, assuming he's insured in a similar fashion to David Wells in 2001.

1 hour ago, Quin said:

If you ever want to see how disastrous a tear down can go, compare the Sox tear down with the Marlins tear down. Trading Stanton, Yelich, Ozuna, Gordon, Realmuto should have hypothetically yielded more than the Sox tear down.

 

3 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

 

I actually thought all these Sox offseason moves are exactly the types of moves a team in teardown mode would be making, like the club approaching 2016-17 offseason...hoping to flip them at the deadline.  Well, Graveman and Kelly both would be considered riskier I suppose.

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22 minutes ago, ChiliIrishHammock24 said:

Yea, that's the conversation I was alluding to last night, false alarm and all.

Urggg - the inactivity is killing me!

 

3 minutes ago, Whisox05 said:

 

wow. seems super low

3 minutes ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

wow. seems super low

It's arbitration years buyout only.  They're not getting an extra years control here .

3 minutes ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

wow. seems super low

Just buys out his arb years and nothing more. Sorta an odd deal for both sides. Has to mean Matt isn't very confident in his body imo.

8 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

Just buys out his arb years and nothing more. Sorta an odd deal for both sides. Has to mean Matt isn't very confident in his body imo.

Probably darn near the projection, and injuries really crush arb numbers.

Jays likely didn’t want to tell a judge how much Chapman sucks just after acquiring him.

Just wanted to say I’m already irrationally angry about seeing Leury play RF in what looks to be the Sox main lineup today

Harold, when is something going to get done? 

2 minutes ago, bmags said:

Probably darn near the projection, and injuries really crush arb numbers.

Jays likely didn’t want to tell a judge how much Chapman sucks just after acquiring him.

Yea it guarantees Matt 24 million or so in case his hip flares up again and the blue jays take on some downside risk in order to you know, as you said, keep the relationship solid and bet on individual and team success.

2 minutes ago, SoCalChiSox said:

Harold, when is something going to get done? 

Harold is busy getting new talking points regarding Kimbrel's value at the deadline.

14 minutes ago, fathom said:

Just wanted to say I’m already irrationally angry about seeing Leury play RF in what looks to be the Sox main lineup today

Vaughn batting 9th, below Harrison and Leury should make make your anger even worse….

Why won't Reinsdorf spend some money before he dies? 

6 minutes ago, HahnsKiddieTable said:

Vaughn batting 9th, below Harrison and Leury should make make your anger even worse….

That’s the only thing interesting to me

19 minutes ago, fathom said:

Just wanted to say I’m already irrationally angry about seeing Leury play RF in what looks to be the Sox main lineup today

He is going to play 140 games and get 500 at bats if healthy.  

Today's lineup leads is going to piss me off all year as Sheets/Vaugh are the "second" clean up men who can drive in the low OBP guys ahead of them who are never on base so when both have 18 RBI at the all-star break they will appear to be failing and the Sox will need to trade for a big DH bat but instead will add a RP.  

14 minutes ago, Unknown said:

Why won't Reinsdorf spend some money before he dies? 

Yes, he should spend some of the IRS' money. I'm sure he's planned very well, but they are getting some.

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