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Headlines
- Jon Gray Suffers Wrist Fracture
- Rays Exercise 2026 Club Option On Yandy Díaz, Add 2027 Vesting Option
- Rafael Devers Reportedly Considered Asking For Trade
- Rays Will Not Move Forward With Plans For New Ballpark
- Cardinals Sign Phil Maton
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Sought $500MM Net Present Value In Extension Talks
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For the folks who have never lived in Chicago: the White Sox quite possibly have more fans there than the Cubs. It’s the footprint the Cubbies have in the suburbs and Midwest in general that sets them apart.
You know what really grinds my gears? When someone on here is trying to put a player down and in an attempt to do so they bring up an element that is already baked into a stat that already cited and that stat still says that player is good. Like when they are trying to put down a Rockies player and they say “He only had a 105 OPS+ while playing half his games in Coors Field!” even though the Coors Field factor is already baked into OPS+. Or when someone is trying to put down Trevor Bauer, I bring up his ERA and they say “But he gave up 2 home runs to Alexi Amarista in one game!” even though the Amarista dingers are already baked into his ERA. That sort of thing.
The Rays are not in Tampa, they are in St Petersburg. That is the problem. The chances of Sternberg and Silverman selling before 2028 when the lease at the Trop is up are somewhere between nil and non-existent.
There’s a big gap between what teams know and what fans know. This leads to bad decisions, and the internet makes it worse by creating a lot of loud, but not always accurate, opinions. Baseball needs to find a way to balance the numbers with the human side of the game.