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Wong has zero to do with talent identification. Purely a finance/contracts guy.

Tokyo isn't that bad at all. Favorite Disneyland for comfort level. Studio Ghibli Amusement Park (Aichi) and Ichiro Suzuki museum run by his parents in Nagoya. Only issue was figuring out the incredibly complex shinkasen/high speed and then subway and slower trains JR Line etc. interfaces. Now Osaka and Kyoto...oppressive and overcrowded. And Okinawa has pretty amazing weather in mid-November when it's not rainy season. Shorts and flip flops nearly every day.

Too much. Thought they might get Okamoto instead...who could be SD bound.

They don't really honor that system at rush hour. That said, the South Korean bathroom hidden cameras and paparazzi scandals with celebs, along with oppressive school bullying and relentless academic pressure is quite something. Japan does have that just weird/bizarre factor, a lot of it reflected in anime/manga/cosplay.

Bader will get over $10 million.

Can't have a bench without a SS.

Pitched well against the Rays. No RS in 4 outings covering 7 2/3 IP. Good recommendation by Carlos Rodriguez/East Coast scouts.

Just depends how much of that overhanging debt situation has been cleared. In Minnesota, the three minority groups added recently were given a 20% share in the team @ $1.75 billion valuation (arguably $150 million too high) in exchange for $500 million to clear/cancel all their debts since 2020 and get back to even.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

That would be idiotic. Almost as idiotic as KCK Chiefs. Most of that city is like East St Louis. Then you have Johnson County suburbs and Wyandotte "countryside"...which is where they would be in actuality.

Crain's Business

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/12/reds-among-teams-showing-interest-in-luis-robert-jr.html

It's worth more to the White Sox NOT to get buried again in April ... playing Hill a lot in CF would do the trick, probably.

Greenberg is all over sports media/biz side AND yet terrible with sports analysis/insight on "big picture" team strategy.

“We haven’t had a guy of this caliber. Not to this popularity,” White Sox executive vice president, chief revenue/marketing officer Brooks Boyer told MLB.com. “Those guys were 20 years ago, well before how you distribute information, how instant information can go: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, whatever platform you want. You can get information and highlights to people across the world instantaneously. “It’s a great opportunity for us to be able to market internationally, to grow the White Sox brand internationally and to help him and some of his teammates with growing their individual brands. That’s something we look forward to on the business side." mlb.com merkin

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