Good grief, Jerry. You get a stadium damn near rent free!!!

Instead of wanting 4 "can't miss" prospects you take a lesser package since they're "free".

Die already.

Yep. And at $100 million Sale is still underpaid.

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Jesus Christ, people, calm down, here is the tweet (from a guy who gets paid to write and talk about baseball, mind you):



1.) Half of the "$63 million deal" was a penalty paid to the MLB for exceeding the signing pool allotted for the Sawx.

2.) The "$31.2 million left" is the bonus money the Sawx agreed to pay Moncada for signing with them. He is otherwise on a standard minor league contract.

3.) I don't think bonus money from an international signing can be transferred as a balance in case of a trade, as it is not salary. Red Sox were on the hook for it either way.

This is merely Bruce Levine being an idiot, and your outrage could be quelled by a rather easy google search.

The fairness of this deal rides on the 2 other prospects they got. It's looking like they would have been better off trading with the Cubs or any other team that would have mixed youngsters with at least one proven veteran. Instead the Sox got two maybe's and two afterthoughts.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Pretty much everyone agree the other two prospects are terrible and won't ever be good. Sox got fucked hard on this.

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Maybe finally the Sox can rebuild in peace for a couple-three years and then jettison into the upper echelons of the MLB, while the Coob are still within their current win-now window. If so, we live in exciting times indeed. Crosstown World Series 2020.

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HOYER. SAID. HE. DID. NOT. WANT. TO. TRADE. WITH. THE. SOX.


Trades between geographical rivals do not occur often. Did you know the Dodgers and Giants have only made three trades over the past sixty years?

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I feel bad for Sox Nation today. You just don't trade elite talent for 2 decent prospects and two throw in's. I would have rather kept Sale.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Wasn't he supposed to pull at least one All Star caliber position player and a slew of can't miss prospects?

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They got the prospect of $31 million.

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and honestly, how many second basemen end up being monsters?

They traded Sale for a non impact position everyday player

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I'm gonna guess he actually ends up playing third.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Whoa...so they can go sign some shit players to lowball contracts?

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Nope. The Chairman puts it in his pocket.

No one goes to the park anyway. Might as well tank and pay less salaries.

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what a bunch of namby pambies. you'd think this was the first time you got anally probed by JR.

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From the look of his highlight films, I'd agree with you. He doesn't look or field like a second baseman. He looked serviceable.

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This thread is getting meatbally fast

I am not happy with these two gentlemen either.

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I can't wait for the uproar when they leave him in minors for the first 7 weeks of the season to push back arbitration.

Nothing like the feeling of a good minor league system

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Would it be appropriate to re-conjugate his name to Chris Sold?

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- Henry George

Ok, seriously now: You guys realize the Sox couldn't negotiate to pay or not pay Moncada's bonus money, right? You realize that, like all deferred payments, they are not transferred when a trade occurs, right? Which is how the Red Sox are still paying Manny Ramirez and Adrian Gonzalez, the Mets Bobby Bonilla, etc. Are we clear on that?

The Red Sox beg to differ, they got him on Sale.

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Last time the White Sox had a top rated system I believe it was because of the highly touted Jon Rauch. That worked out great. Good thing they rushed to trade Sale. Red Sox winning the World Series again. Great.

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Jesus, when this place decides to hivemind about something, there are no expenses spared.

They didn't get a team's top prospect for Chris Sale. That is bad.

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Not to pile on but reaction from fans on a few Red Sox message boards is about 98% positive.