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Not to mention Ohtani Matsumoto and Ohtani are responsible for sonewhere in the vicinity of $150-250 million in revenues generated in various forms in SoCal and especially through Japanese corporate partners/advertisers. Almost the same number of Japanese were watching LA on a Sunday morning for Game 7 of the WS in a much smaller country than Americans watching on a weekend night. And the same advantage is accruing to Toronto as "Canada's team," just on a slightly smaller scale (Rogers is a massive national corporation) that puts them on equal footing with the Yankees and ahead of Boston/Balt. All these resources have also led to a perennial Top 2-3 farm system...where they have 3-5 replacements for every position with the exception of closer, which was addressed with Edwin Diaz after Sasaki made it through the playoffs (barely).

Not to mention Meadiocre.

Having watched him pretty closely the last couple of years...he's almost the very last player to buy low on when he's still going to get something like $12-15 million on name/reputation alone. https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/2025-atlanta-braves-player-review-170000563.html M.Ozuna...or Conforto, in following the Encarnacion/Alonso tradition, just somehow feels likelier, because both SHOULD be under $10 million and willing to sign one year "make good" deals that allow them to be flipped to contenders with better performances.

Do we even know this for sure? That week when minority shareholders were offered the opportunity to sell at a $1.8 billion valuation...a surprising number of those share sales went to the Reinsdorf kids and not Ishbia. JR was already around 25% personally. His kids maybe at 5-10%? Ishbia MIGHT be at 45-50% now, Reinsdorf family at roughly 35-40% and also a number of the minority shareholders decided to hold out. At least 10-15% remaining. But there hasn't been any public reporting that the Ishbias are over 50%...and control person title/shares is all that really matters at this point.

https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/what-josh-bells-signing-means-for-the-rest-of-the-twins-lineup-r19547/ From reading this， Trevor Larnach has now become the obvious trade candidate.

Twins now with 9 left handed OF 1B DH candidates and counting.... TEAM CURRENT ODDS OPENING ODDS Tigers +290 Guardians +225 Royals OTB +275 Twins OTB +260 White Sox OTB +15000

https://www.mlb.com/news/starting-pitcher-trade-candidates-2025-26-mlb-offseason Pros and cons of 7 biggest names on FA pitching market

Fine, Oliver Twist in keeping with economic allusions.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/ranking-tarik-skubal-trade-suitors-220222310.html 8 top possibilities for Skubal trade

Even WestEddy accidentally wrote Oliver Done in one of these threads.. A new nickname to pair with Meadiocre.

Roch, yes. Smith or Schultz...not so much.

That doesn't automatically result in more butts in the seats. Just gives fans a reason to watch at home and maybe see something different. It would be surprising if there's even a noticeable increase in tickets sold for a May weekday/night home game when Braden debuts in 2026. Same thing with the Colson and Teel debuts...barely noticed except by diehards. Now if you go back to Moncada Jimenez Kopech and Robert debuting...those were all must see events in the rebuild timeline.

WestEddy reserved fifty season ticket packages if Elko's on the active roster at least 45 days.

Don't be so sure. Especially if Sosa is traded.

Lukakke is Japanese Appling?

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/12/mets-padres-pirates-interested-in-luis-robert.html 4 teams now? Please just be over. SFG interested in Bellinger. Ofc.

Coen Vrabel or Johnson for CoY? Harbaugh on the outside looking in...

White Sox version of tapping out...

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/12/red-sox-yankees-orioles-finalists-for-michael-king.html All the talent continues to flow to the AL EAST.

Doesn't the penalty for underspending carry over to the following season still?

Phones ringing off the hook with season ticket inquiries.

MLB pretty much mandates it now with the onerous penalties for not signing players. Exceptions to fully utilizing draft pools on the first five rounds of picks are few and far between these days.

We're likely going to here how Keller needs more time and/or the new Dominican facilities will require some additional patience before they can bear fruit. Also seems a number of the bigger money kids they are connected to would be signing in 2027-2029.

So shouldn't bWAR correct for that overemphasis on framing then?

The Sox include money to SAVE more money, but hardly ever to elevate the prospect return. Once again, the needless inclusion of Tatis in the Shields trade to save just $2-3 million extra per season on that onerous contract. They had already added Erik Johnson, a former top Sox prospect. And how much revenue has Tatis generated for SD? Easily in the hundreds of millions. Penny wise, pound foolish. 26.5 fWAR x $7.5 million=$199 million (if they were to buy that production in FA terms)