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Eh, they’ll just acquire some lesser starters. It’s what they do.

“We feel like our offer was still the strongest one out there. If he hit all of the incentives, the total value of the contract could have been worth $350 million…”

It’s an infamous old Kenny Williams quote that he used at least twice but probably more, typically when he failed to get anything big done in the offseason. It became a meme for the Sox continually failing to land a big name free agent. White Sox GM Ken Williams, on whether he's still shopping: "You can't offer a guy a dollar if you've only got 50 cents.' “I've used the line before that you can't give someone a dollar if you only have 50 cents," Williams said.

I wonder if they think his one good really good offensive season in 2022 was a fluke and are trying to sell high before his bat continues to tank. He hasn’t had another season in which he hit that well. But his D is still so good he puts up WAR with mediocre offense. But they are dumping a lot of salary.

Walker Buehler already has an iconic last name, albeit spelled differently. May as well use his last name…

I think @Bob Sacamano was suggesting that the Yankees sign 1B Christian Walker, not Walker Buehler.

So I assume Fletcher will be starting in CF if Robert is traded.

Orioles will never ante up and the Mets offensive prospects look mediocre. The more offers the merrier though.

Great news for us. C’mon Red Sox. Time to match your rivals.

I agree with you but that obviously isn’t a big concern to Jerry. RF will be a massive hole again next season. It’s been that way since 2017. Tauchman, Slater, Fletcher, or whomever aren’t solving that problem.

69 awful plate appearances with the Rockies and their fans love him? Uhhh, no.

We’ve seen this far too many times. Even if he is decent, does it even matter? He was decent last season with the Cubs and he wasn’t moved at the deadline for any sort of return when the Cubs were selling assets. That should really be the only goal of the Sox making one-year veteran signings. Otherwise, play Colas and the younger bums that Getz acquired last year.

Unfortunately, players don’t stay the same or improve into their mid-30’s like Jerry and Sox GM’s for the past eternity hope and bank on. They decline. This is the story of Sox offseasons for years, and they still never get it. Well, they probably get it. They just don’t care.

Mike Tauchman is a fan favorite?

They were $50 million guaranteed short. They never matched the Padres offer. Fake news.

It was all a show for the fans. Hey look, we tried! But darn, those dastardly Padres and Phillies swooped in and signed them both. It wasn’t our fault…

Isn’t it funny how the very poster who cries about personal attacks the most is the one who dishes them out the most?

Hahn had the lawyer talk skills. He could speak for an hour and afterwards you realize he said nothing and gave no detailed information whatsoever.

Not last year.

He also turns beet red and sweats bullets as he’s stammering his way through the BS he is slinging.

We have needed an established RF for years and we just landed our #2 offseason target in Mike Tauchman. Mike is a great leader of men and we think that a platoon of Tauchman and Slater could be as productive as one full-time RF. I thanked Jerry for extending our payroll plans for 2025 to allow us to add a player of Tauchman’s caliber.

That’s gotta be the worst outfield and DH situation in all of baseball. Good thing for Getz that Benintendi was a Hahn signing.

You just mentioned three guys that are all younger than Tauchman. So you are basically saying there is no reason to play those guys because Colas has been blackballed by the Sox and the other two guys were bust acquisitions by Getz? Do you really want to see a 34 year old dude starting in RF for this team with where it’s at?