Buehrle>Wood

"Ben Badler at Baseball America said the “arrow was pointing up” on Fajardo before the season, and the $400,000 signing out of Venezuela proved it over the course of the season. The 3.91 ERA doesn’t stand out due to a few rough outings, but he also threw five shutout innings on three different occasions, and he struck out 64 batters 50⅔ innings while only walking eight. When considering age for level, it’s probably the best performance by a White Sox international pitcher in the Marco Paddy era." from sox machine. Yeah I dont know.

Well deleted the tweet. We know that burner reads soxtalk.

If that's true that's a lot more than I'd expect. Not that it's a haul but not sure why we're giving up a top 30 prospect here. Figured it was 40 man churn for the Red Sox.

Think I'd much rather have Naylor at 14 million than Santana at 12.

He going to re-take up the mantle as the Cuban Othani again then?

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43093698/yankees-1b-paul-goldschmidt-reach-125m-deal-sources-say

The meetings are in LA.

I think i would take the over. An even remotely competent bullpen, which can be assembled by pure luck, will beat it.

When he's comparing himself to a slave, yeah that's questionable. And also pulled a yerminator threatening to retire. And that was all just publicly. Who knows what he's like behind the scenes.

This is a fake quote lol

We can call up Nishida and add to the list.

Prepping for Acuna's free agency in 2029 apparently.

I would have liked a position player with that second pick. I dont see why not with the shape of this 40 man. At least none of the relievers got picked.

How is Michael Fulmer rule 5 eligible

Man, Guardians made out like bandits. Not sure what either of the other two are doing here. Cleveland gets out of Gimenez contract and I'm sure will do wonders with those 3 arms, especially Ortiz.

They also offered 8/215. 8 million, 215 years to be clear.

They do. Not sure why, other than he was the source of a MLB meme on players your fanbase likes that weren't actually good players. I dont know what the story is there. But here's Cubs reaction to Sox signing him. Clearly a fan favorite https://www.reddit.com/r/CHICubs/comments/1hat5s4/merkin_white_sox_to_sign_mike_tauchman/

Yes. Rockies and Cubs fans love him.

If we have to fill it out with vets, I'm cool with fan favorites.

Wild

SMU Clemson was wild. Interesting to see how the committee screws SMU now

Even then I'm not sure they can afford the immediate PR disaster it would cause. Then again I guess there's no real PR to save at this point.

Theres no way they're stupid enough to send Crochet to the Cubs. I know they are very very very stupid too, but not quite that dumb.