G-Snarls

I don't know a that I can think of a rookie who really deserves it any more than Redmond does

Fine by me. Just don't want Yanks or Red Sox to get him.

I honestly don't understand the Tigers FO at all

Wow. Well then you mostly are paying the player. All for it. But why is t he Japan league willing to do this??

Pretty much all bad news in these tidbits

Must think they won't sign here

May have just missed this in the thread but it was brought up on PTS today. AA was "trying to get in on the conversation " for Fister but Dombrowski told him "we're looking for something specific and you don't have it" So much like 15-20 other GM's, AA just wasn't given a chance to even try and work out a trade. Sucks.

Count me among the few who actually prefer NL baseball I like an occasional team like the 2010 Phillies, 2011 Cardinals, 2012 Pirates but no one favorite ongoing team

Yes, Rasmus would do it I thinks

LOL, fixed

Agree Rasmus LF Gose CF Bautista RF Pillar 4th OF Melky DH If you can get something decent for Lind

Ruiz at end of three years = same age AJP and David Ross are NOW They totally should have signed him

Don't you only get your draft pick back a certain number of times??

Lind for Polanco or Meadows

Sounds like 18 WITH incentives http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2013/12/04/red-sox-offer-to-jarrod-saltalamacchia-topped-out-at-two-years-around-18-million/ According to multiple industry sources familiar with the talks, the Red Sox have been determined this offseason to limit offers to any free agent catchers to two years in order to avoid blocking the path to the majors of prospects Christian Vazquez and Blake Swihart. The team’s conversations with free agent Jarrod Saltalamacchia reflected that approach, with one industry source suggesting that the Sox and the catcher talked about structuring a two-year deal that featured incentives that would allow it to top out around $18 million. Such a deal could have offered the 28-year-old a higher average annual value than the three-year, $21 million deal to which he ended up agreeing with the Marlins, but for Saltalamacchia, the desire for a three-year deal was absolute. Had the Sox offered the same three-year, $21 million guarantee that Miami ultimately presented, there would have been a strong chance that Saltalamacchia would have accepted in order to return to Boston. But the Sox never considered moving to that length. Ultimately, that proved a deal-breaker — just as it had with Carlos Ruiz earlier in the offseason. While the Sox had been willing to go beyond two years with Brian McCann (before he signed his five-year, $85 million deal with the Yankees), he represented a different degree of flexibility given that the team viewed him as having the offense to emerge as a future DH or first baseman by the third year of a deal. Saltalamacchia and Ruiz being pursued solely as a catcher, thus creating the possibility of a bottleneck for Vazquez and/or Swihart. Hence, the Sox felt that their best course — with McCann and Ruiz off the market and no common ground for Saltalamacchia — was to sign A.J. Pierzynski for one year at $8.25 million, a contract that will permit the team the greatest degree of flexibility entering 2015.

MLBTR: Franchise icon Paul Konerko will return to the White Sox for a 16th season. The White Sox have officially announced the signing of Konerko to a one-year contract. The LSW Baseball client will reportedly receive a $2.5MM guarantee, though $1MM of that amount will be deferred to 2021.

Plus he and Mark Buerhle are BFF's. And this is a better team. Thought that might be a SLIGHT draw. But he pretty much said after the season he'd play for Chi or retire.

Paul Konerko going to play another year for White Sox So much for my preferred 4th OF/DH platoon option Guess I knew there was pretty much no chance.

They WANTED to decrease their payroll, but not at the expense of putting an uncompetitive team on the field. It's like saying "I'm going to stop drinking/smoking/gambling/what have you, knowing full well you're not going to. Fine by me. Give us all some luxury tax money.

WEEI reporting Red Sox best offer to him was 18M with incentives over 2 years but he wanted a 3 year deal Dunno if smart or not on his part

Spending 310M on 3 players > spending it on 1 player

Exactly. Smart management here helps the roster (both of these guys have options and are on league minimum salary) and leaves $ to upgrade the rotation.

Last year having all those guys perpetually on 60 day DL helped with the roster. Got none now. Which is mostly good.

It's f***ing simple isn't it?