BlackSox13 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 The Nationals have as much payroll flexibility as any teams that could be pursuing Cespedes. Their payroll, as it stands, is about $30 million less than it was at season’s end. Adding a contract worth more than $20 million annually — Upton got $22.125 — could still leave them with a comparable or smaller payroll than they had last October. Plus, Cespedes did not reject a qualifying offer from the Mets, and therefore will not cost the team that signs him a draft pick n https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/nationa...s-end-up-in-dc/ Just to add some fuel to the fire! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (Frank_Thomas35 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 08:55 AM) Source: #WhiteSox, Yoenis Cespedes Finalizing 4-Year Deal with 1 year option and opt-out after 2nd year. https://mobile.twitter.com/JakeBauer21/stat...852481816416256 He's a duck. Quack quack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSoxFanMike Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 If the Sox do sign Cespedes, I want it to be in the next ~25 minutes so my friend and I can celebrate in study hall together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 11:16 AM) If the Sox do sign Cespedes, I want it to be in the next ~25 minutes so my friend and I can celebrate in study hall together. Ah Study Hall...the best part of High School. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSox13 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Should Mets sell high on Granderson and re-sign Cespedes Specifically, I’m asking why the Mets haven’t explored trading Granderson. Last year, Granderson hit .259/.364/.457 with 26 homers and 70 RBI from the leadoff spot. He was a finalist for the Gold Glove in right field. On a team where everyone was dropping like flies, he played 157 games, and really, he was the only credible major league bat in the lineup for far too many stretches of time. His 5.1 WAR ranked him as a top five right fielder in all of baseball last year. He has a reasonable two years $31 million remaining on his contract. One way of looking at this is saying he’s too valuable to be traded. http://metsmerizedonline.com/2016/01/shoul...-cespedes.html/ More fuel for the fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockin Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Ok, something is officially up. Brian Bilek @ChiSoxraBBit To those asking: I can't even get a respond to a text or email. Take that how you want. #WhiteSox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_Thomas Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 He's Sticking to it: @cronebender I'm aware of people's issues but I don't see what I did wrong. It's true. Report will come out soon. Just watch. https://mobile.twitter.com/JakeBauer21/stat...855725254922240 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSoxFanMike Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (Baron @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 11:17 AM) Ah Study Hall...the best part of High School. Good times. lol yup. 45 minutes of doing absolutely nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2Jimmy0 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 11:16 AM) If the Sox do sign Cespedes, I want it to be in the next ~25 minutes so my friend and I can celebrate in study hall together. If twitter were around when I was in high school I never would have made it to class Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (Sockin @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 09:18 AM) Ok, something is officially up. Brian Bilek @ChiSoxraBBit To those asking: I can't even get a respond to a text or email. Take that how you want. #WhiteSox Toilet paper, prepared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSoxFanMike Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 I don't know. These rumors seem legit but I don't know if the Sox want to pay him $150 million or whatever it'd take to get him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 11:18 AM) http://metsmerizedonline.com/2016/01/shoul...-cespedes.html/ More fuel for the fire. So sell high on Granderson, and buy even higher on Cespedes. I like the way these guys think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDF Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 man i have been dealing with some hou fans at breakfast..... down here in LA. and just to piss me off, they have been giving me crap about the freaking northside. oh how i hope the sox pulls this off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 05:27 PM) man i have been dealing with some hou fans at breakfast..... down here in LA. and just to piss me off, they have been giving me crap about the freaking northside. oh how i hope the sox pulls this off. I'm going to say Houston fans have nothing to taunt the Sox about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (Frank_Thomas35 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 11:18 AM) He's Sticking to it: @cronebender I'm aware of people's issues but I don't see what I did wrong. It's true. Report will come out soon. Just watch. https://mobile.twitter.com/JakeBauer21/stat...855725254922240 About the same as that guy who said it was a 6 year contract a couple weeks back. Then said the issue was the Sox would only go 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDF Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 05:28 PM) I'm going to say Houston fans have nothing to taunt the Sox about down here there is no baseball except for LSU so they follow Hou.... yesterday and today the bs talk of hou being in play or something. these guys really don't know what it is to being a sox fans...... it is all in the attitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Ok, something is officially up. Brian Bilek @ChiSoxraBBit To those asking: I can't even get a respond to a text or email. Take that how you want. #WhiteSox I'm taking it as the Cespedes saga is over, but not taking it as necessarily being in favor of the Sox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalSox Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 09:28 AM) About the same as that guy who said it was a 6 year contract a couple weeks back. Then said the issue was the Sox would only go 5. What I find weird is he was tweeting about Cespedes and the Sox being a match on a 3-4 year deal with an opt out 4 days ago. Now Bowden says Cespedes is close & the Sox are a finalist & he tweets it's done. I could be 100% wrong but seems like a complete guess with the pieces that the media has given everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSox13 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 11:26 AM) So sell high on Granderson, and buy even higher on Cespedes. I like the way these guys think. Not saying it would actually happen but it does make sense. The Mets could get a decent package for Granderson and Cespedes is over four years younger than Granderson. If the Mets were to actually do something like this, overall they would only be adding roughly 6M more per year to the payroll. That's not much at all, even for a team that claims they are in debt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipps Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (Sockin @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 11:18 AM) Ok, something is officially up. Brian Bilek @ChiSoxraBBit To those asking: I can't even get a respond to a text or email. Take that how you want. #WhiteSox How are you taking that dude? Because that can easily go either way. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDF Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 crap, i would even give his camp on opt after 1 yr.... with how the fa's looks like next yr. he and his camp should bring in some tall change then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Let's take the bait and say it's true.... I'll say 4 yrs/$96M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDF Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 05:32 PM) Not saying it would actually happen but it does make sense. The Mets could get a decent package for Granderson and Cespedes is over four years younger than Granderson. If the Mets were to actually do something like this, overall they would only be adding roughly 6M more per year to the payroll. That's not much at all, even for a team that claims they are in debt. i got to give you credit.... very creative way of making it work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Sacamano Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 10:54 AM) The Nationals need a CF. I don't think Cespedes is a CF. Would they move Harper to CF? Would they want to do that? They traded for Ben Revere to play center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockin Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 As if there was any doubt, you can ignore "Jake Bauer" and his report. They guy is not who he says he is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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