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$12M total, only $6M guaranteed, $2M in incentives.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 11:12 AM) “Jose Fernandez is a great example. Jose Fernandez will strike you out and stare you down into the dugout and pump his fist. And if you hit a homer and pimp it? He doesn’t care. Because you got him. That’s part of the game. The problem is that so may people DO care and will drill you, young or old. if the guy is that expressive as a pitcher when he does well, you can bet he most likely won't be happy with you 'showing him up' when you drill one to left.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Mar 9, 2016 -> 06:11 PM) Way too much for Porter and Massie. Love the Trevathan signing though How can you say this without knowing the guaranteed money?

The flashbacks, they're so vivid! Obviously it didn't matter but Griffey would've been a hell of an improvement over Everett, we're talking a 90 point difference in wRC+ in the second half of that season between those 2. And no, this is not some sort of endorsement for acquiring Jay Bruce.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 09:08 AM) Welcome to 2015. Good luck getting the theme out of your head. Watched it when it first came out, haven't revisited it since and yet I was still humming that damn song yesterday.

That is all.

Would have been more fun if they had only provided the last 3 year's stat lines without names.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 08:06 PM) Not necessarily soxfest but a great Hawk interview. At the end, he says Hahn isn't done https://theathletic.com/2016/01/30/hawk-har...ne-talking-yet/ Hawk is very confused.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 03:02 PM) Love that cap. I'm gonna have to get one. The one in the online shop doesn't look quite right: http://shop.mlb.com/Chicago_White_Sox_New_...IFTY_Fitted_Hat

For reference, the 2015 Zips projections:

Would you trade Spencer Adams for Dexter Fowler at 3/$42M?

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jan 27, 2016 -> 09:58 PM) I'd be extremely happy if this ended up being the move. Not only are you upgraded the defense slightly, but the offense gets a big boost: Eaton RF Fowler CF Abreu 1B Frazier 3B Cabrera LF LaRoche DH Lawrie 2B Avila/Navarro C Saladino SS I think that's a playoff caliber roster with our pitching If LaRoche and Melky were the players the Sox thought they were signing, I'd really like this lineup.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 27, 2016 -> 12:17 PM) Anyone have an amazon echo? Grabbed one when Amazon had them on sale last year half thinking I wouldn't use it often enough to justify the cost but I've probably used it everyday since. Really cool piece of tech.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 09:37 AM) I was looking for a new show to watch and Netflix kept recommending Peaky Blinders to me. A BBC show about a 1919 gang outside of London. I gave it a shot and I have to say I really, really enjoyed the first season. Only 6 episodes, an hour a piece. Pretty great for being relatively short. There's a 2nd season on Netflix and they just wrapped filming on season 3. And as an added bonus Tom Hardy is a regular in Season 2.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jan 25, 2016 -> 09:42 PM) I could be wrong but I think Fowler and his agent will use Melky's contract as a base starting point. I believe Melky's contract is for 13M in '15, 14M in '16, 15M in '17 totaling 42M. Spring Training is less than 4 weeks away. That clock is ticking.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ Jan 22, 2016 -> 10:05 PM) It's over! It's finally over! Btw, NO team was beating the Mets offer. He wanted to go back this entire time. The Sox could not have beat that offer. A sneak peak at Merkin's next article.

Basically a one year deal with an nice insurance policy.

It's finally over.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 09:38 PM) Eh, Pirates was scheduled for July and even as big as Star Wars is it wouldn't be going that strong at that point. It really is a combo of Episode VII's success in December, giving Johnson more time to get things right and probably moving Star Wars away from Guardians of the Galaxy II which was also scheduled for May of that year. Though, Avatar 2 does premier 12/25.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 09:29 PM) Watch it be a mystery team like the Mariners. Ha, that would be super s***ty for that franchise. Let's say it's 5/115, that'd be $1M a year less than they're paying Cano, so they'd basically be doubling the Cano deal for the next 5 years to add Cespedes. 2019/20 would be spectacularly sad seasons.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 07:00 PM) hi8is has gone crazy this month... Granted, as one who gets emotional from time to time, he's REALLY taking this hard. In the back of your mind as a White Sox fan, you have to be conditioned to at least expect to be disappointed and then it's easier to be pleasantly surprised. The last time I was REALLY excited about the White Sox was heading into 2009 after the 2008 playoffs and we had Beckham and Viciedo on the horizon. Probably followed more Barons games that year in the first half than White Sox games in the second half this year. Of course, almost all of the touted prospects from that team have fallen off the face of the earth at this point. Yes, prior to January 2016 hi8is was the poster boy for normalcy.

QUOTE (Saufley @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 06:56 PM) Listening to the guys on MLB talk about Cespedes and they were quite negative. Yea, he has a big bat but lack of defense and baggage questions. They have me wondering. He's a very good defensive LF. He has been a very bad defensive CF, he's played 21% of his ML innings in CF. He's not a good option to be moved around the outfield during the season which has happened throughout his career.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 03:51 PM) https://mobile.twitter.com/pgammo/status/690285876962787328 What stat is he even looking at? Cespedes' career DRS in CF is -17 but he was -4 last year ... in 312 innings.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 01:26 PM) I just hope we don't sign Fowler. No, we'll just trade for Werth instead.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 09:39 PM) Why not just make it 3 years with an option for the 4th What kind of option?