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I don't think you're blatantly lying about something I said, I think you are just mis-remembering, but I never once was against the Price acquisition so please don't attempt to belittle my point by lying about something I said. You got two people to laugh and think you were right though, so you got that going for you. I said I would be all for the deal, and I never said the Red Sox would have to add any money.

How am I heaping praise? Because I wont say this offseason has been a failure? Ok, guy. You know no one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to be a white sox fan, right?

Why would the reds give moustakas but not match what the sox paid to Grandal? If 7 million wasn't enough, I have no idea why 12 would be.

Its not good, but price and benetendi for that + arb prices is fine.

Correct.

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Sox have bid the highest on 2 of their 3 targets. What are they supposed to do? That's fine.

What does any of this have to do with conversion rate? Jesus christ. There are 29 other teams also trying to acquire talent.

Price is fine when he pitches. Hes not great anymore but hes also not bad.

So a bad organization should convert on a higher percentage? I'm not comparing anything, I'm saying the Sox have not been some epic because they converted on 1 of 3 targets.

What does that have to do with an MLB teams expected conversion rate in FA and the trade market?

Robbie ray in the AL scares me. Anyone who has watched robbie pitch more than a couple times knows how maddening he is. Never gets through 6, high pitch count and always nibbling with the fastball.

I mean, theyve completed 1 and missed 2. I'm not sure that's awful; wheeler was frustrating but not bad. Friedman said last night that the Dodgers have about 15 players they are interested in this off-season - which is down from typical years. What percentage do you think the Dodgers expect to convert on? If they had no interest in Bumgarner before wheeler signed they should have no interest now.

Lol no one knows how to overreact like a white sox fan. Is it not in the white sox best interest to push back against any narrative that they have to get something done?

So the WSJ reporter was wrong.

I think Boras charges 6%, but it's a moot point. Rich man is richer.

Yeah, you're probably correct on second thought.

The universally expected rate for wheeler was 4/80. What does any of that matter? I thought all of them would get more than the "expected rate." It doesn't mean Strasburg effects the market of a guy tiers below him.

If anyone impacted Bumgarners price it was Wheeler, not Strasburg or Cole. Wheeler is in the same price range as Bumgarner.

Why would a house in the million dollar range impact the price of a house in the 1/2 million dollar range? The price of Stras and Cole have no impact on the price of mid-tier players, imo. Those two are independent of each other. Cole is being paid a premium because of how rare he is.

I wonder what Bruce asked lol. Hahn didn't look thrilled.

Seriously, I have no idea what you want the guy to say. You're losing it pal.

He's not going to say the opposite, that's for sure.

They can trade him, he will just be announced as a PTBNL until one year has past from the draft. If I recall correctly.

With interest attached to the deferrals I really don't understand them. You still, technically, should be putting that money to the side if interest is going to be owed on it. Maybe the Nats think they can make more money than the interest rate they gave him on the money to offset some of the costs on their side.