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This is probably a very stupid question but let's say you are the White Sox, you don't love any of the top players and next year, you have the 10th overall pick at best. What prevents them from drafting Hagen Smith #5 overall and then saying "We'll offer you $4,000,000 and not a penny more." If they sign him, they get him for a huge discount. If they don't, they get pick #6 in a much better draft next year. Do you need to show bad faith?

I'm always amazed at how fast these later rounds go. When I do fantasy drafts with 11 other guys and a much smaller player pool, there's a million instances of "Wait, did X get picked?" and taking more time than needed... Granted, we are talking about large staffs of serious prepared people, not a dozen drunk guys... but its still impressive.

If he's bad and the team decides they don't want him next year, can't they just easily cut him? Its not like he has a guaranteed contract and he's making a ton of money.

What's the significance of him being pre-FA, still on arb? A quick look at deals from the last year show Garret Cooper, Jiman Choi, Josh Bell, Jace Peterson, AJ Pollock, Carlos Santana all got moved and none of those guys were very good.

Guys like Dejong, Pham, and Vaughn etc. get moved all the time at the deadline.

That would be awesome.

I'm very curious about the times you have pretended to be a billionaire.

Its amazing they are as bad as they are with the starting pitching they have gotten.

Go through my post history. I have said most of the guys on the team suck. I haven't even made any statements about Eder except about a month ago I said he was lining up to debut in the majors within the next year and some of the usual suspects acted like I was making outlandish assumptions. The guy is the 27th man today and will probably go to AAA next... A normal response from WS2023 and TRU would be, "Yeah, he's probably up sooner rather than later." Not trying to argue they are still correct. You can think the team is bad and still live in reality.

So you two are digging in and still think he's two years away. Got it.

Seems like just yesterday WS2023 was saying Eder was more than a year away from the majors.

lol these Baltimore guys are so weird.

What should we expect for Pham? An ok bullpen arm or is there a chance to get a future every day player?

Elias is a p****. Crochet will go to a team with a GM that isn't.

TLR is "Special Advisor to the Executive Vice President" but they no longer have an Executive Vice President.

A group of pioneers are on the Oregon Trail heading west. The group is led by Kenneth and Richard who recruited the pioneers and obtained all the wagons, oxen, and supplies. The front left wheel keep breaking on the large wagon every month. There is an ox that seems to pull its muscles seemingly every time you cross into a new state. One of your best hunters who spent too much time at the Saloons in Northwest Indiana keeps getting dysentery. Gerald, the patriarch of the group gets embarrassed that the group is taking longer than it should to travel the trail. He tells Kenneth and Richard they are no longer allowed to lead everyone. He appoints Christopher to take their place when they reach Idaho. They stop at a little town outside Boise. Christopher would love to get rid of that faulty wagon wheel and get a new one, buy a brand new healthy ox, and find a hunter who is more dependable. Gerald tells him he doesn't have enough money left. They only have enough to get a used spare wagon wheel, a mule in case the strong ox gets hurt again, and give hunting lessons to a young kid in the travel party. It is less than ideal, but they only have to make it one more state before they get to their destination and can rid themselves of all the crappy stuff Kenneth and Richard purchased. Once they get to Oregon, they will be free to start anew. Immediately after leaving town, the ox pulls his hamstring, the hunter passes out due to illness, and the wagon wheel cracks in half. They put the reins on the mule, hand the rifle to the young hunter-in-training, and replace the wagon wheel with the makeshift spare. It is taking the group longer than most anyone has ever took to travel from Idaho to Oregon. Three guys in the back of the travel party keep blaming Christopher and saying "he should have known" about the wheel, hunter, and injury prone ox.

I always laugh when I think of before his last contract here when Jerry made public statements saying "I'm bringing him back no matter what" and Jose was saying similar things like, "I'm not going anywhere" and someone asked Rick Hahn about it and he goes "Well, this one is not going to be taught in any law school negotiation classes anytime soon."

Then I'd definitely hold on to the two big guys. Unless you think you can trade Crochet and Robert for pitching and then deal minor league pitching for hitting. But then you better self-scout real well... and if no one is giving you bats for Robert or Crochet, why would they give you bats for Ky Bush and Peyton Pallette?

This is so insane. Can't be true.

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That's fine. The other guy acts like Fletcher and DeLoach were costly acquisitions that were meant to be franchise cornerstones. Its bizarre. There's a million things to criticize the organization about in the last decade. Zach DeLoach and Dom Fletcher are far far down that list.

They traded an ok minor league starter (who has an ERA in the high 4s in AAA) that had fallen behind their other pitching prospects for an outfielder who hit 300 in a small sample size last year. He has been bad in an even smaller sample size this year. This was during an offseason where he had to cut payroll and needed OF depth and after it was clear they weren't getting a MLB ready OFer from Baltimore for Cease. Do you really not understand any of that or are you just so weirdly obsessed with Chris Getz?

This is such a stupid and unserious criticism. DeLoach was one of three pieces in a deal for an injured bullpen arm. Who said he was going to take over RF? You act like he was the main target this offseason and they signed him to a big extension. He's just some dude they got in a trade. Would you have rather that they just refused to take a third player?

I would have thought Schriffen would be more excited for that Maldonado rbi hit to break the hitless streak