Manny Machado signs with Padres

[hyatt151]

A replay of the Arod scenario perhaps

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I knew they'd screw this up.

 

[JPPT1974]

Says he could earn up to $300M there I saw on ESPN!

 

[fenderpfunk]

The Chicago sports media seems more upset about this than the White Sox fans, which is odd. Its like the fans didn't really expect the White Sox to get Machado, while the media thought the White Sox were the favorites to sign Machado.

If you visit the Sox reddit sub you will see how upset the fans are.

 

[zack54attack]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Padres chairman Ron Fowler: ‘We’re a lot happier than the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Whitesox?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Whitesox</a> right now.’</p>— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href="https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1098994685547180032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[brett05]

A replay of the Arod scenario perhaps

I believe this is absolutely right. The Padres severely overpaid the White Sox. Don't blame Manny at all.

We'll be fine. If the youth develops and performs, folks will be wanting to play here. This is totally fine.

 

[nickofypres]

The fact that the Sox wouldn't go 300+ and no opt-outs means they weren't serious at all, or they actually thought low balling a super star would work. Why the **** would any decent free agent want to come here after hearing that?

The White Sox are never going to be an actual, competitive, relevent team until the old man dies.

 

[bamainatlanta]

Am I the only one here that thinks Manny was overpaid?
His stats came in a hitter's park and his career home/road splits are not impressive. I believe he's only had 1 season with an OPS greater than .900 and that came in his Free Agency year. He's a good player but is the really worth $30/million per year?

 

[NdSoxfan2]

Good riddance Manny. 10 year contract is too long for anybody. Too many risks.

 

[brett05]

Am I the only one here that thinks Manny was overpaid?
His stats came in a hitter's park and his career home/road splits are not impressive. I believe he's only had 1 season with an OPS greater than .900 and that came in his Free Agency year. He's a good player but is the really worth $30/million per year?

Based on 8 million per WAR (not sure why that number is used) yes, he is.

Again, I have zero issues on losing out on him.

The craziness is the fans that think the team doesn't spend money. They are top third over the last 20 years in spending, while bottom fifth in attendance.

They've made big time offers to at least two top tier free agents (Arod and Machando). They lost out. That happens. 28 other teams did as well.

I'm ready for the youth influx to continue.
The development of Lopez, Giolito, Moncada, Jimenez.
I'm still behind the rebuild.

 

[FirstTimer]

:aj:

 

[Rory Sparrow]

They've made big time offers to at least two top tier free agents (Arod and Machando). They lost out. That happens.

I just saw Arod telling a story about how J-Lo gave Bradley Cooper advice before he had to sing at the Oscars. I remember this one time in the mid-70's when the Bulls lured Artis Gilmore from the ABA with a large contract...who says the Bulls don't land big name free agents?!

 

[zack54attack]

I just saw Arod telling a story about how J-Lo gave Bradley Cooper advice before he had to sing at the Oscars. I remember this one time in the mid-70's when the Bulls lured Artis Gilmore from the ABA with a large contract...who says the Bulls don't land big name free agents?!

Can't forget that big summer of 2010!

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

Based on 8 million per WAR (not sure why that number is used) yes, he is.

Again, I have zero issues on losing out on him.

The craziness is the fans that think the team doesn't spend money. They are top third over the last 20 years in spending, while bottom fifth in attendance.

They've made big time offers to at least two top tier free agents (Arod and Machando). They lost out. That happens. 28 other teams did as well.

I'm ready for the youth influx to continue.
The development of Lopez, Giolito, Moncada, Jimenez.
I'm still behind the rebuild.

Idt fans say much about White Sox spending. You have a rare instance here where two 26 year old all stars were available. I guess we should just stick to signing the Adam Dunn’s of the league

 

[brett05]

Idt fans say much about White Sox spending. You have a rare instance here where two 26 year old all stars were available. I guess we should just stick to signing the Adam Dunn’s of the league

Yeah no one said that either.

 

[The Boletarian]

The front office of this team is a joke. If they enjoyed seeing 20K fans each game they better get ready for 10K. Unacceptable to lose out on both Machado and Harper. Money talks and they blew it. You don't let future hall of fame players at age 26 slip through your fingers when you have more money than anyone to spend. Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[RiDLer80]

This franchise never wanted to spend the money it would've taken to land Manny or Harper. They just wanted to give uniformed fans the appearance that they were trying. We could've gone to $300 for either Machado or Harper. The problem is our cheap ass owner was never going to cut that check.

 

[Icculus]

https://theloopsports.com/2019/03/05/white-sox-the-great-lie/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

At least the moron from Plainfield and ndsoxfan meatball are happy. Plenty of Guaranteed (Rate) seats available!