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https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6719990/2025/10/27/mlb-free-agents-2025-contract-team-predictions/ Cease projected by Bowden to get $187 million.

https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/breaking-minnesota-twins-part-ways-with-hitting-coaches-david-popkins-derek-shomon-rudy-hernandez-and-assistant-bench-coach-tony-diaz-r17161/ The biggest news is we have hired two fired Twins hitting coaches....Popkins and Shomon now reunited. And one of the first examples of a MLB team getting outbid by the SEC for their pitching coach... https://www.mlb.com/news/wes-johnson-leaving-twins-for-lsu

The Marlins are hiring Chris Hess to replace Derek Shomon -- who is reportedly being named the White Sox hitting coach -- as the club’s assistant hitting coach, sources told MLB.com on Tuesday. Shomon was an Assistant Hitting coach with the Minnesota Twins in 2023 and 2024.

He had so much freedom he felt the confidence to stage a coup against a SVP who won only the third Sox WS and a highly paid GM with a Northwestern-Kellogg/Harvard Law background who'd won MLB Executive of the Year in 2019. Where did all that confidence come from?

Can he bring Kyle Stowers or Ramirez with him?

Don’t put it past them…if Perez doesn’t need their $10 million to make him their third biggest contract until Robert is traded. Ofc his mom or family already bad mouthed the Sox on social media. There’s always Clevinger, lol.

Wacha and Lugo and Singer were all very solid in 2023 as well. Ofc that requires spending REAL money on FA pitching. It’s also why KC is ranked around #10-14 going into next season.

You mean Jeremy Haber…

Hopefully Ishbia doesn’t take this advice lol… “White Sox should just move all their home games to Wrigley and play during day/night opposite of the Cubs and at least people will care and go. “ From a Cubs’ fan and someone working in pro sports

Sam Bowie will live on in infamy.

Going to do a Pollock and take less money with the Padres. Darvish out for all of 2026.

N.Cameron Bubic Estevez Erceg Daniel Lynch Ragans broke down, but already has had 2 TJ, and now more issues.

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/10/monday-musings-streamers-bail-out-rsns-adam-silver/ From the above article, the five teams listed below are averaging $20 million in value, with the Twins probably at the very bottom. Makes it quite easy to put the White Sox in that same $12-18 million bucket...compared to $70 million they were previously receiving. "According to Andrew Marchand of The Athletic, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro have reached agreement on a deal that would give the network the rights to sell all out-of-market regular season games digitally — the current MLB.tv business model — as well as in-market games for the Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres, Colorado Rockies, and Cleveland Guardians." Pirates Marlins Rays A's also with serious ongoing concerns with broadcasting deals, one would assume.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/world-series-outcome-astonishing-frankly-230122107.html

Makes it almost impossible for the Sox to have a 30th place payroll, especially if the Marlins deal Alcantara... Which is about as easy as moving Robert and Benintendi...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/dodgers-star-blasts-blue-jays-164111154.html

That was Vaughn's problem? Burger/Madrigal? Keuchel? Benintendi? Lynn Kelly Graveman? Why is it that Liam Hendriks was practically the only player universally praised upon leaving? Sosa Leury Moncada Jimenez Anderson Robert Grandal the most thoroughly maligned. Hmmm...

The other thing that's inarguably less valuable with Robert's current deal is that option years or financial commitments for 2027 are to be avoided rather than embraced...by all but the wealthiest of teams.

Not sure if Robert is a net positive still at this point, but at least we don't have to watch Fletcher out there in CF again...

Cubs' rotation now: Horton Boyd Taillon (final contract year) ??????? ??????? Steele (midseason) from bleedcubbieblue.com "I don’t think this necessarily means Imanaga won’t be a Cub in 2026. The Cubs could try to negotiate a longer-term deal that’s different from the option years he had in his previous deal. They will almost certainly give him a qualifying offer, which for 2026 is $22.025 million. That’s significantly more than he would have made under the contract option in 2026, so it’s possible he could take it and go to free agency after 2026. This would also keep the Cubs in line with having most of their long-term contracts expire after the coming season (to avoid lookout year commitments). One other reason the team option might have been declined is that it would have triggered a full no-trade clause. Again, this is something that could be negotiated in a new deal."

"In spite of his lackluster season, a poll of MLBTR readers on September 10 suggested that more than 91% believed the Cubs should exercise his club option. From that point onward, what seemed at the time like a borderline call became more clear as he posted an 8.04 ERA in his final three regular season starts before posting an 8.10 ERA in the postseason and ultimately being passed over for a winner-take-all Game 5 start against the Brewers in the ALDS despite him being on regular rest. By that time, this outcome seemed far more likely." Imanaga's shockingly now a FA "The Cubs declined their three-year, $57MM club option on Imanaga’s services for 2026-28, and Imanaga subsequently declined his $15MM player option for 2026. It’s an outcome that would’ve seemed unthinkable just a few months ago. Signed out of Japan to a deal that was on paper a four-year, $53MM contract during the 2023-24 offseason that had the aforementioned complex option structure set to kick in after the 2025 campaign, Imanaga was nothing short of sensational for Chicago in his first year as an MLB pitcher last year." mlbtraderumors.com

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/11/white-sox-exercise-club-option-on-luis-robert-jr.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/world-series-2025-game-7-tv-ratings-1236416448/ 26 million US 18 million Canada "In the past 20 years, the most-watched Saturday baseball game prior to Game 7 was Indians-Cubs Game 4 in 2016 with 16.7 million. As Saturdays are the least-watched night of the week, it is rare to see a sporting event of such magnitude scheduled for the night. The only marquee, championship level event that regularly airs on a Saturday night is the NCAA men’s basketball national semifinals, none of which have ever averaged as large an audience as the across-all-platforms figure for Game 7." sportsmediawatch.com

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