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Yeah, I was actually pretty optimistic about cannon and still think be may be able to move to the pen because his sinker had been effective until last year. It took a huge step back last year though, and it's possible the league just figured it out. Skubal was very mediocre when he first came up. Before the injury he only threw 94 mph. When he came back he was throwing 96 mph. That 2 mph took a medicore fastball and made it a good one.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly spiked the football and said the move shows her that Kansas is ready to play on the country's big stage. “Today we are announcing an agreement to bring our beloved Kansas City Chiefs right here to Kansas," she told reporters in Topeka. "For the rest of the nation, I say take heed. Kansas is not a flyover state. We are a touchdown state.” SIGH. Politicians.

The Kansas City Chiefs of Kansas.

https://www.instagram.com/ys_passion_official/reel/DRyRBD6geTC/?hl=en Don't think the Yakult Swallows cheerleaders will fly in the US. This is very very tame compared to the Korean and Taiwanese dance teams that often draw more attention than the action on the field. The most shocking thing for American baseball fans in Japan is the majority of stadium vendors, especially beer sales, are conducted by young women lugging these canisters/mini kegs of beer up and down the steep stairs (think GRF upper deck at Tokyo Dome)

We've had months and months of attemptng to trade Robert and nothing good enough to accept, yet. Maybe Carlos Rodriguez has some fresh ideas/relationships to plumb? At any rate, this is like the endless arguments about Fairbanks and why he ultimately will get more than 1/$11...that number will be 2/$20-24 instead.

No simply providing a list of those players traded at the deadline. Even the top four (if they were actually on the same team) for Robert wouldn't have been enough. Manzardo is a decent/average 1B but hardly a star or guy you give an early contract extension to.

Wait, are you actually quoting dipshits who post on Fangraphs articles? I wanted to stomp on your argument, but I'd have to push you off of stomping on your own argument to get a chance.

Are these 20 other GMs in the room with us?

With Colson, this new guy, Beni and the high on base second baseman whose name i forgot as well as our catcher who can hit ... do some tinkering with 50 million dollars, get us another bat and 2 average veteran starters and let's go. We can beat Minnie and Detroit with our eyes closed and KC is no good.

That speaks well to how much other highly educated GMs and analytics teams would value him at...someone half the teams in baseball and maybe closer to 20 would have cut bait on with the $2 million buyout.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/ranking-the-prospects-traded-during-the-2023-deadline/ Manzardo Gilbert Acuna and Quero were the Four biggest names traded. Try again. Everything is going to be a hypothetical. Most posters believed there was no possible prospect that would have remotely captured his actual value at that moment in time...because the risk was so high it could all blow up later on down the line based on the ups and downs of 2020-2022.

No, actually, they would have traded him by the 2023 trade deadline. I mean, if we're going to play 20/20 hindsight, do the whole gameboard, not just the parts that pretend you were clairvoyant.

Agreed. The OP seems to have issues with something yet to be proven has any truth to it.

China...Dodgers are definitely way behind the Yankees. So many knockoff hats, as the real ones are more expensive than in the US even. South Korea and Japan...feels like LA has exploded the last two years with Ohtani.

The reported location of their new stadium will be in the municipality of Kansas City, Kansas. Why would they drop "City" from their name when their home field will be literally in a town named Kansas City?

Burke has crazy stuff. He just does. Can he locate it consistently? Not so far.

I’m shocked that the Dodgers are still behind New York.

https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-white-sox/seeking-an-edge-white-sox-add-proven-rays-executive-carlos-rodriguez/ They would have traded him after 2023. Definitely held on to Randy Arozarena too long. Of course, actually trading a guy like Robert at peak is easier said than done. It also represents surrender of sorts to the fanbase. The Sox held on to Anderson, Cease and most of their players too long, in hindsight. Part of that was obviously injuries as well, see Moncada/Eloy/Hendriks/Kopech. Trading Crochet was the one guy who worked out well, Giolito too, I guess.

well they just hired the Rays guy but - yes.

You know much more about advanced stats than I do, so I have some questions for you. I’m curious how much the run value stats you cited predict future success. I’m also curious if they are more results based like ERA, or if they are more like FIP? I decided to look at Cannon’s page. In 2024, he was in the 47th percentile in fastball run value. In 2025, he was in the 3rd percentile of fastball run value. So did his fastball get that much worse? Or is there some luck involved there? I then wanted to look at an elite pitcher. I chose Tarik Skubal. In 2021 (his first full season), he was in the 20th percentile in pitching run value. Then he jumped to 78th in 2022, 93rd in 2023, and 100th in 2024 and 2025. Is that kind of jump after a rookie season extremely rare?

The Rays would have traded him years ago, like we should have.

You wanna be the Rays? Then you'd trade Robert now. They are always moving talent while the talent interests the league. They dont care if the guy looks good on a bobblehead promotion. When assets are offered up, that guy is gone.

https://www.draysbay.com/2021/2/22/22265255/carlos-rodriguez-tampa-bay-rays-2021-covid-19-challenges

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