Hot Stove Update: White Sox Sign White Soxian Pitcher

Do you remember Mark Buerhle?  Of course you do!  Soft tossing lefty.  Didn't miss many bats.  Threw a no-hitter for the White Sox.  Well, the White Sox went out and signed Mark Buerhle Part Deux, Dallas Keuchal.  Keuchal is a former Cy Young award winner for the Astros, but has settled into a Mark Buerhle type career more recently.  That netted him a 3 year/$55 M contract with the White Sox with a vesting option for a 4'th year which would bring the total to 4 yrs/$74 M.  Keuchal seemed like an option for Farhan to sign, but I'm thinking Farhan is more interested in taking risks with pitchers who throw harder and have more swing and miss stuff.

The Chisox signed another White Soxian pitcher in Gio Gonzalez who is basically and older, cheaper version of Dallas Keuchal.  Gio's deal is for 1 yr/$4.5 with $1 M in incentives plus a team option for $7 M in. 2021 with a $500 K buyout.

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Other signings around the league include:

RHP Julio Tehran:  Angels, 1 yr/$9 M.
1B/DH CJ Cron: Tigers, 1 yr/$6.1 M
2B Jonathan Schoop:  Tigers,  1 yr/$6.1 M.
C Martin Maldonado:  Astros, 2 yr/$7 M(Re-sign).
2B Ian Kinsler:  Announced his retirement.
LHP Martin Perez:  Red Sox, 1 yr/$6 M with $6.25 M club option for 2021 with $500 K buyout.
3B Maikel Franco:  Royals, 1 yr/$2.95 with $1.05 M additional incentives.
1B/DH Justin Smoak:  Brewers, 1 yr/4.4 M with $5.5 M option for 2021 with $1 M buyout.
LHP Wade Miley:  Reds, $2 yrs/$14 M with $500 K incentives per year with club option for $10 M in 2022 with $1 M buyout.
2B Eric Sogard:  Brewers, 1 yr/$4.5 M with option.
OF Matt Kemp:  Marlins, minor league deal.
3B/1B Ryon Healy:  Brewers, ? terms(nice upside play here.
LHP Kwang-Hyun Kim:  Cardinals, 2 yrs/$8 M with $1.5 M incentives + 20% posting fee to SK Wyverns( I wondered if Zaidi might be fishing in in the Asian market- Maybe not).

Listing above mainly to get a view of the market for various player types.

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In response to a couple of comments to my last post:

I would not be surprised if Farhan Zaidi has more tricks up his sleeve, but I feel like I'm pretty safe in saying a trade of YtY and Brandon Belt for David Price and Tristan Casas is not going to happen.  Too many reasons why both teams would not want that deal.

Again, I doubt FZ considers Marcel Ozuna an option because I think he highly values the draft pick which would be lost due to QO.