White Sox, Nationals in advanced talks on Chris Sale trade

A couple hours after Moncada and Kopech spoke to reporters via conference call Wednesday, the Sox made another huge deal, sending outfielder Adam Eaton to the Washington Nationals for top pitching prospect Lucas Giolito and fellow right-handers Reynaldo Lopez and Dane Dunning.

He said that these players fit on all 30 teams and he purposely said all 30 because that includes them.

Moncada said Abreu sent him a congratulatory text following the blockbuster trade, welcoming him to Chicago. “All those things. Like I said, we’re going to be aggressive if the occasion arises, but we’re going to be prudent and smart about it”.

“But really, that doesn’t shock me”. “I wouldn’t want to keep bothering him”. In Boston, that’s not good enough, which is why the Red Sox depleted their farm system to acquire another ace pitcher this winter. He’s also garnered comparisons to Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard, for obvious reasons.

Boston fans are commending him too, and after a lackluster 2015 season and a 2016 season lost to injury, they’re hoping in 2017 he might start pulling his weight.

“A lot of that is timing”, Gibbons said of the reason for the salary discrepancy. It also made it easier for them to eat the $31.5 million signing bonus they are paying the 21-year-old Moncada – the largest ever for an amateur player; the amount was doubled as a penalty for exceeding their global signing cap.

“There isn’t any added benefit for us feeling like we did really well and the other club comes out looking really bad”, Hahn said. I think when you have a group of guys that come together that believe in the same thing and fight for the same goal, nothing else really matters. “So I went with that and it worked out well”. But the White Sox may decide to hang on to Abreu, who could serve as a mentor for Moncada. Boston’s president of baseball operations has never been shy about trading away promising prospects for established talent. “Whatever the number of players that build a team, it’s more about the collective, building the best possible team year in and year out and what gives us the best chance to sustain that year in and year out”. That’s what I live for, playing the game of baseball. “Some of them involve now for the first time differences in draft choices and sacrifices of money to sign players and that type of the thing. My priority is to help the team”. First baseman Jose Abreu, a former Cuban teammate of Moncada, has the Rockies wondering how far he could hit the ball in the thin Colorado air. A person familiar with the trade tells The Associated Press that.

The White Sox starting pitcher made his debut in the Major League Baseball in 2010. This bold move suggests the Sox plan to remake the franchise this offseason involved more research than reaction, rooted in patience more than impulse. But according to ESPN’s Buster Olney, the White Sox were asking for Mookie Betts and Andrew Benintendi during the season.