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Or they're going to cough up one of our top 3 prospects for a pitcher now. Excellent job. At the very least, the Sox should have been "in" on these guys until the end. Yeah, probably not going to sign them. But offer the most money and see what happens!!! Fucking owners like Arte Moreno run baseball teams like they're a hobby, our owner sucks balls. He let the Sox lose this city to the Cubs and now they're a small market team in fucking Chicago of all places, and now they can't afford or won't spent the money on the whales. They're living in the reality that they built.

So Machado was worth 8/250 but Rendon wasn't worth 7/245 +? He's arguably a better baseball player. Man, at least make the Angels work for it. All these awesome free agents and we're gonna end up with Mazara and maybe David Price? Pretty disappointing, to be honest. Hot take, for sure since it's still so fresh, but man... not even one whale in 2 years? May as well move this team to Rockford so they can live in a city that could only support a small market team.

The amount of smoke around this makes me feel a deal is imminent. Hope I'm wrong. This isn't a "wow" name.

This was worth a thread?

This may be worth resurrecting since the Sox have been on the phone a lot with Boras lately, and it seems he's collected at least a couple 7 year offers already.

Sox are throwing everyone off the scent with all the trade talk if it is truly the case that they are a mystery team. UPDATE: Source is telling me that the White Sox are BOTH of the mystery teams. TFWIW. ?

Come on Sox be the mystery team for once. Ahhh dreams.

UPDATE: I'm hearing the Sox are deep in talks on a Cease for Samardzija swap to bring him back to the South Side.

If they deal Cease, they better be fucking right. Unless it's a big name, that could have disaster written all over it. There's a pretty good chance that Cease will be an established, premier talent before too long.

In before.... ahh I give up. Good deal for Stras, no wonder he signed so quickly.

Why are the White Sox offseasons becoming circus acts regularly now? My goodness.

7/220+ In before the Sox offered 7/234.5

Oh SHIT Yankees vs Angels will be VERY interesting

It sounds like there's an agreement in principal. This doesn't make much sense, though, don't teams usually let the news out that there's been an agreement in principal at that point instead of vehemently denying it? Maybe Wheeler really was 14 minutes away from signing with the Sox and they have PTSD lol.

Ahhh Bruce. Accidentally called Steve Cishek Steve Madden, that was a nice laugh.

FWIW, Ozuna had his best offensive year of his career under our new hitting coach.

Itd be cool if Rendon was actually gettable. If your due diligence brings you to that conclusion, you sign him and worry about positions later. That bat is special.

I mean, I guess I don't blame the Sox if they are out... but who else are you going to go after? He's riskier than Wheeler, but there's a good chance Bum has a lot left in the tank. Are they really gonna sign a Boras client? (Ryu) Who else is there that could legitimately be a difference maker? It would be awesome if the unexpected spurn by their target, Wheeler, made them say screw it and be determined to not be outbid for Cole. One thing I think I know is that a Boras client will always take the most money, even if he "prefers the west".

QFT

I mean, offer 5/120 and see what happens? WTF? This is the guy you zoned in on and your max was like 5/110 or something? For a starting pitcher in a sellers market? Blow off. Grandal is nice and all but how are you going to fulfill your shopping list for 2 SPs now when this is the guy you zoned in on?

Tier D and F pitchers, or a trade.

When you ask the question "what now"? That's about all that is left. Out on Cole. Out on Strasburg. Probably out on Ryu. Probably out on Bumgarner. And Hahn still has to fulfill his 2 SP shopping list. Looks like we'll be dumpster diving and trading away assets now.

No fucking shit. Getting really tired of this garbage.

Gotta agree with this. If Sox balked at a bump above that price, then they really suck. Hot take or not, this was the guy they zoned in on.