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https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2024&month=0&season1=2024&ind=0 Cease up to #2 in fWAR behind Wheeler. Corbin Burnes #26. Sale 16th.

Kansas plan to get Chiefs, Royals relies on billions in bonds with ‘high degree of risk’ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kansas-plan-chiefs-royals-relies-100000308.html

Avoiding an 8th or 9th sweep of the season...

White Sox-aNON "Why would he intentionally tank the Sox, you ask. Chicago refused to give him 2 billion dollars for a new stadium. He wants out his contract with the stadium the Sox are in right now. He has offers to move the team to Nashville and Las Vegas but can't because of the contract. Ever seen the movie Major League? The whole storyline is based on a baseball team owner putting together a team that is so bad that the city allows the owner to move the team to another city. Reinsdorf wants to move the team out of Chicago because, no matter how good the Sox are, they will ALWAYS take a back seat to the Cubs. In 2005, when the Sox won the world series, the CUBS got the top headline in the Chicago newspapers. Chicago has at least one sports team in in EVERY major sport. Moving the team to a city with a lot less pro teams means more attention paid to the Sox and more money for Reinsdorf."

He's got more rings than Chris Getz! By a lot.

“It was a good baseball trade,” White Sox manager Pedro Grifol said. “They needed him over there and the pitcher we got back adds depth to an area that we feel is a strength of ours. You can never have too many good arms. This kid’s got a good arm and he’ll help us at some point.”

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/orioles-signed-craig-kimbrel-replace-042821026.html

There's no way Lynn was coming back...even if they overpaid him, which was also never going to happen. Odds are that Clevinger will struggle like theajority of players that get started a month or more late into the season. Crochet can only give you 80-100 innings this year...most were guessing 80ish before the season. That might give you a 70-75 win team and an even lower draft pick in the first round. No appreciable attendance difference, probably.

Not being the WORST but instead the 29th worst team in baseball somehow seems even worse, lol. The Rockies are a competitive balance team, enjoy the benefits of higher 1st round draft picks and have surprisingly resilient attendance in Colorado, despite all the losing AND poor spending (exchanging Kris Bryant for Arenado, essentially.) The only hope with this organization is that JR is so embarrassed (like last season with KW/Hahn) that he basically has no choice but to intervene...

Well, there's naturally a certain amount of drama when you come back "home" to beat the organization that originally traded you to your rivals, that's just human nature. Then throw a 1 hitter with 10+ K's (most of Cease's games aren't even followed on the West Coast.)

Lee as well...getting increasing playing time. And at least somewhat holding off opponents' running games. https://www.milb.com/player/junior-caminero-691406 Rays desperately need this bat in their line-up

Also going to be Top 5 in fWAR when the updates come out tmrw morning... Except they're RIGHT there in the Wild Card race and just traded for Arraez, so it's far from a sure thing they would trade Cease when starting pitching is arguably THEIR biggest need as well.

The Cubs still have miles to go before any World Series...but are certainly much closer and more fun to watch/follow.

Way too early to call that trade anything resembling a success when the biggest need on the major league roster now and in the future is power/offense.

Better than the Honeybunch. Or perhaps not, depending on who you're married to.