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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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Rob Refsnyder to Mariners $6.25-6.5 million (incentives) big salary jump

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For the last 4-5 days, we have seen a mountain of statistical evidence presented by basically every expert and analyst about why Murakami MIGHT fail. In all likelihood, if the Rays Guardians Brewers announced this deal, everyone would probably be calling them geniuses. So hopefully, Getz and Rodriguez are right on this call. That said, the first $100+ million free agent in Sox history and next year's draft will be exponentially more important for the future of the franchise. This was almost more of a marketing gimmick...one Sox fans haven't seen since Albert Belle was signed. https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/whats-next-how-will-npb-star-munetaka-murakamis-power-translate-white-sox-mlb&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjqz9_WwtKRAxUhHjQIHRb5ABUQ0PADegQICBAD&usg=AOvVaw3Va1kqD_-u41gpGsudJkX6

Miller cost the #1/2 prospect in all of baseball, though. No way they can afford to trade away their #1 pick next summer.

The rest of the world still doesn't know the White Sox are coming...not until they are at least out of fifth place. That said, purely from a marketing perspective, this was the best possible allocation of $34 million by far. If they were really trying to compete, though...Imai would be getting $130-$200 million. Which is the same amount of $$$ they were willing to spend on Masahiro Tanaka over a decade ago.

A's have a handshake agreement to increase payroll to at least $100 million for revenue sharing exception.

Too early to count on Berroa after TJS. Let's see how his stuff bounces back first. 2-3 years ago, Walker Buehler and Dustin May looked pretty darned great, too.

Try fixing Raiders Dolphins Browns...especially the latter two. $99 million cap hit with Tua. Browns are determined to have D.Watson on roster next year. And only Moore/Mendoza at top of most draft boards.

Mets going all 2023/24 White Sox, excising almost all of their veteran leader core in terms of position players except for Lindor and Soto...who supposedly detest or even hate each other. Maybe it's Magglio CLee and Valentin out in 2004 for the Sox and restructuring around Lindor/Soto with young pitching and all that freed up $$$.