Tuevo is overrated but he still made sense for Chicago on that deal to give Bedard at least something that resembles a top 6 forward
Luke Richardson might be a psycho though. Bolting Lucas Reichel to 4LC at Pat Maroon has been seen on PP2
If you are even remotely serious, Vlad needs to be in the pitch meeting, assuring Soto he will work out an extension, along with the club.
This is probably just noise though, and Soto's agents would be insane to ignore a meeting request from the team that wants to hang a runner up in Shohei...
Like maybe they do overspend on someone who cant help but take the stupid offer, like a Pete Alonso or Luis Severino? Or going nuts for Alex Bregman? But it will be one of the A- or B+ FA that are going to age terribly, and frankly any SP bothers me even Fried, who is really good, but the fact...
Shi was on with an update of sorts
20-25M to spend, unless of course they have a special budget for a special player which could be any one of Max Fried or Boras clients.
Team is being aggressive at meetings ( fuck off, especially with that 25M)
Nothing is maybe close with Vlad but both sides...
We are being linked to everything because the front office likes it that way.
I can buy them being in on the SP market, because spending market value on FA SP is what these guys love, the fact that they identify good ones isn’t the flex they think it is. Having a 100m+ rotation and shit bats...