Very late on Wednesday night, Héctor Gómez trickled out a tantalizing tweet:
As a reminder, Gómez is a sportswriter based in the Dominican Republic who broke the Chicago White Sox offer of eight years and $250 million to Manny Machado more accurately and earlier than any of the other “insider” jackals. He also was first with the Robinson Cano and Welington Castillo suspensions, among other stories.
In short, he’s a solid source.
The story, however, hasn’t seemed to pick up much traction, perhaps because Eloy Jiménez himself hasn’t signed off on the deal. But that tiny detail shouldn’t keep us from speculating about the deal, or determining how close Jiménez will come to earning such a contract.