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On 9/20/2024 at 8:38 AM, southsider2k5 said:

They are a .500 team minus playing the White Sox.  That isn't exactly a big stretch 

Throw out their records against the White Sox, KC, Minnesota and Detroit are all below .500. This happens another year or 2 some teams will start complaining about the White Sox.

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3 hours ago, Dick Allen said:

Throw out their records against the White Sox, KC, Minnesota and Detroit are all below .500. This happens another year or 2 some teams will start complaining about the White Sox.

It will start this off season if none of the three AL Central teams advance out of the first round.

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On 9/19/2024 at 11:57 PM, caulfield12 said:

Don't count out the Royals completely imploding...shades of 2012 for the White Sox down the stretch.

It's too bad they don't get to play the White Sox to rescue their season. 

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Hopefully when this all washes out, we’re left with the Yankees, Orioles, Astros, and Guardians playing in the Division Series. Same in the NL- give me Dodgers, Padres, Brewers, and Phillies. Let’s have the chalk battle it out this October. 

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On 9/22/2024 at 6:08 AM, Dick Allen said:

Throw out their records against the White Sox, KC, Minnesota and Detroit are all below .500. This happens another year or 2 some teams will start complaining about the White Sox.

Then again it is their job to beat those type of teams.   The Rockies made it more difficult for the D'Backs and put the Cubs out of it. 

 You play to win every game because sucking in April and May my look even worse Sept.   "Plenty of baseball left" is the wrong attitude coming from a manager.

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How Cole Ragans Built On His Breakout Season

October 14th, 2024 at 9:38pm CST • By Mark Polishuk

 

"Ragans turns 27 in December, and still has another full season remaining before reaching salary arbitration.  Locking up Ragans to a contract extension would help the Royals get some cost certainty over a pitcher whose ceiling only seems to be rising, plus the rotation could use some solidification since Wacha will surely exercise his opt-out clause and test free agency again.  On the flip side, since Ragans is under team control through his age-30 season and already has two Tommy John surgeries on his resume, the Royals might well hold off on any serious extension talks and just go year-by-year with Ragans for now.

Deciding how to best deal with the unexpected windfall of a frontline pitcher is a nice problem for the Royals to have, and in hindsight the Ragans trade was the first sign that K.C. was going to able to rebound from its 106-loss disaster.  An inability to develop homegrown pitching prospects stalled the Royals’ rebuild for years, so there is some irony in the fact that the team’s emergence has now been led in part by another team’s seemingly stalled prospect."

 

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/10/how-cole-ragans-built-on-his-breakout-season.html

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