Y2Jimmy0

I wish I knew.

Kimbrel won’t be here

Because it gives you leverage in trade and free agent talks.

Yeah that's fair. I wouldn't trade Vaughn because he's going to be a star but they'll get a fucking shit ton for him if they actually pulled the trigger. The problem with signing Castellanos though is that they still need a RF.

I know all about the Reinsdorf block, his friends and his history. I get the skepticism. I don’t need to fucking clarify my sources for you or anyone else but it’s definitely not a White Sox employee in this instance. Your mind is made up any way though so I don’t really care.

Probably not but they don't need to go over

I don't really agree here. You need 23 owners on board. I've been told that Reinsdorf has mostly stayed out of it but also that he wants to play baseball. This team can win a title and his friend is the manager. He has influence but that doesn't mean he can get 7 rich assholes to change their minds. Luckily for all of us, the 14 team playoff will likely change everyone's mind. Hopefully this week.

The White Sox CBT payroll is $194 million right now. It'll be the highest payroll in franchise history pretty easily. They'll subtract Kimbrel but I'm very confident that additions are also on the way.

This international draft idea rules. Way better than the current system.

If the White Sox sign Conforto and Tepera and trade for Chris Bassitt, I don’t care who plays second base.

This can be simplified even further. The owners proposed a luxury tax line of $215 million. Players are at $245 million. Until that thing gets closer to $230 million, there will be no baseball. I think they miss half the season or more at this point. There's no reason for the players to fight in order to miss like 22 games and cave basically. If they want real change, this drags into the summer.

I have no reason to believe that Abreu will ever be gone.

When would Sheets ever play on a roster with Conforto in RF though?

I like this. Here are my tweaks: Sign Michael Conforto Sign Ryan Tepera Trade Craig Kimbrel to Philly for Marchan and Alvarado Trade Gavin Sheets plus, plus to Oakland for Sean Manaea and Tony Kemp.

Yeah the draft lottery is pointless

There are 14 small market clubs that currently reap the benefits of this system. They aren’t going to do anything to change that

It’s not going to work this time. This isn’t Tony Clark’s dumbass running the show anymore. And the real losers are the fans. My dad has friends that haven’t been back to a baseball game since 1994. It’ll happen again.

Good luck getting 23 owners to agree.

Well that’s short-sighted and ridiculous.

They could take the players' proposal and they'd still win in a landslide due to jersey patches and expanded playoffs.

This would be great. No way they get 23 votes on that though haha.

I don't mind capping spending. Capping spending at $215 million and taking draft picks away for going over is insane though. There's a number where it makes sense for sure. The players suggested $245 million and that seems reasonable to me.

It's not what the owners want. They're conflicted though. Manfred needs 23 votes to pass anything and that makes things pretty tough when you have people that truly don't want to spend but also don't want others spending either.

You're right. I don't hope they miss the season. That's crazy. I'd rather they miss the season than go with what the owners have proposed on the luxury tax though because it's better for the long-term health of the sport. The owners are going to have to move on the luxury tax though or they might actually miss a season.

It's really not. 70% of the league makes under $1 million per year and it's the lowest minimum salary in all of sports. What the owners are trying to do on the luxury tax would make it really tough on the White Sox the next couple seasons and the penalties are ridiculous. It doesn't force the small market clubs to spend and stops the largest market clubs from spending. Sounds like a hard cap to me.