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50 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Trout was never going to happen, but it take another star out of the general free agent pool meaning it will only be harder for us to ever land a young impact player.

The only way the Sox are going to get a "young impact player" is via trade. They will never pay one in FA, they demonstrated that this off season. 

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2 minutes ago, JuliusO1274 said:

White Sox would have tried to offer 250M but 450m with incentives.

And Kenny and Hahn would have said it was a better deal than what the Angels gave Trout because he had the potential to earn more money.  They would be shocked once again that Trout didn’t accept the offer and the potential to make $20 million more when he is 37 years old.

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2 hours ago, EloyJenkins said:

Once again...Machado's deal was a "Bargain" compared to market rate. We will never have a chance at a top 10-15 player for under 300 million ever again. But at least we will have that Eloy money saved up for years...

How so? In the context of this signing, Harper and Machado look like overpays if Trout is only getting $36M AAV. He’s a far superior player compared to those two.

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1 hour ago, Sockin said:

The only way the Sox are going to get a "young impact player" is via trade. They will never pay one in FA, they demonstrated that this off season. 

No they demonstrated that they won't spend $300M . Since most all FA's will not cost $300M I think there's a reasonable chance the Sox can add a few guys  that break the Abreu contract in the coming years.

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4 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

No they demonstrated that they won't spend $300M . Since most all FA's will not cost $300M I think there's a reasonable chance the Sox can add a few guys  that break the Abreu contract in the coming years.

I agree, but they will be older, high risk guys unfortunately.

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1 minute ago, Chicago White Sox said:

I agree, but they will be older, high risk guys unfortunately.

Well nothing is perfect . They all come with a degree of risk. Its the sole reason for the FA market being so top heavy while guys like Gio Gonzalez and Keuchel wait around forever because they are over 30 with declining fastballs and peripherals. Risk just hasn't equaled the reward in too many cases.

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3 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

Well nothing is perfect . They all come with a degree of risk. Its the sole reason for the FA market being so top heavy while guys like Gio Gonzalez and Keuchel wait around forever because they are over 30 with declining fastballs and peripherals. Risk just hasn't equaled the reward in too many cases.

But you just said it, the market is top heavy with team prioritizing under 30 stars for good reason.  We’ll basically be fishing in the over 30 category and history has suggested that’s a dangerous game to play.

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Just now, Chicago White Sox said:

But you just said it, the market is top heavy with team prioritizing under 30 stars for good reason.  We’ll basically be fishing in the over 30 category and history has suggested that’s a dangerous game to play.

Of course but they don't come at 26 too often. Once in a while you get 27, 28 , 29. Everyone is fishing in the same waters and the ones who over pay to get them take the biggest risks but some times you have to. As we have seen with Machado and Harper the Sox cannot make  FA moves without criticism since I have seen a fair share of posts saying they rather not have them not to mention the many we saw saying Corbin and other were not worth it. How many have we seen that say Keuchel is the next Shields ? Now you really have to be sure you think you will contend before you add FA's just to get a bat or arm that's likely to produce for only a few years while minimizing the declining years risk. That's a job that's very difficult to do. How often do we see posts saying  "I think this guy will age well" based on what exactly ? Nothing scientific that's for sure.

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