Hope you're doing well, Francisco! I like Stat of the Week. Don't listen to your boy, Earnshaw. You should keep doing them, IMO. The fact that Corbin Carroll had 4 more Runs than any other player and then everyone else is stacked together says a lot about his baserunning talent. Head and shoulders above everyone else. I was also curious of some of the players who fared worst: Vlad Jr, Castellanos, Marcel Ozuna, Justin Turner, Gleyber, Polar Bear, Soler, and Jesse Winker were the 8 worst.

if Jays get Sasaki over Dodgers. Yankees fans will have something to say to Cashman. Jays were last place team last year.

The guy claims he is interested in maximizing his development as a pitcher. He also claims that he wants to go down as the best picture ever from Japan. If he becomes a Dodger he might as well schedule his Tommy John surgery now in anticipation of when his inevitable arm injury occurs. If he's been paying attention he would see that the Dodgers have had an unusual amount of young arms becoming injured. Is it a fluke, bad luck, or something else? Who knows? Sounds like the development department may need to develop a new pitching philosophy that does not include Tommy John surgery. Now, if the guy was being genuine and honest about this process not being a big jerk-off session, then he would not choose the Dodgers. To be a pitcher who is viewed as the best they must face the best hitters and face some adversity. How can either of those situations occur when the best hitters are on your own team and when you win the division a month early? When and where will the adversity come from? Nonetheless, the Nippon Dodgers will force the NL West and the entire NL to attempt to keep up which we all know is virtually impossible. Sure the Dodgers are ideally situated when it comes to tapping the Asian market. Nonetheless, even with those advantages you still would need to live in LA.

The Padres are on the downfall 📉

If he wants to watch the dodgers at home in October, sure join the pobres.

If losing was smart then sure. Not sure he wants to be a career loser though

With all the people that says Roki is "likely" to go anywhere that's not named Dodgers, just look at vegas odds.

Question, if the padres are the best place for him to go, Why are the dodgers the team players go to fix themselves and then go get paid elsewhere? And then they never do as well with that team? Sounds like the dodgers are way better at developing than the padres

why would Roki go to SD? understood Yu is his mentor, but, his mentor only has a couple more years left, then what? Looking at pads spending to compete in the future looks to be going down monetarily. If he chooses Pads he will regret it big time. Pads NEED Sasaki, Dodgers DON'T.

Now make “why roki sasaki would be smarter to join the dodgers”

37 minutes of unmitigated BS!

you know ball

lol he’s gonna be a padre…but Jesus you Padres fans are so desperate and so delusional

Yeah, I’m sure Roki is thrilled at the prospects of signing a 6-year deal with a team with ownership turmoil, with serious doubts as to whether the front office is financially committed to surrounding him with the necessary talent to make deep postseason runs. All Roki has to do is look how Ohtani’s tenure as the #1 guy with the Angels worked out, and last I checked, Roki doesn’t hit 45+ homers a year. And Darvish is 38 years old - he has at most two more seasons left before father time catches up with him and the Padres likely trading him or DFAing him, whereas Ohtani and Yamamoto will be right alongside Roki during all six years of his contract with the Dodgers.

The best fit would have been the Mets in all honesty. They have an owner willing to spend . It’s in NY and they need pitching . LA is the worst possible place to go for media reasons , he will be in the shadow of Ohtani and Yamamoto and they probably have all the deals for Japanese players

If Roki believes he is great I’m sure he believes he would be great on ANY team. What could be greater than going to the Dodgers are becoming the number 1 starter with Ohtani and Yamamoto in the rotation? Wouldn’t that be legendary? Starting game 1 in the WS over Ohtani and Yamamoto? Cease and King are gone after this season. What’s great about becoming Shohei Ohtani with the Angels? This is from a Padres fan. We have done ZERO thos offseason to show Roki we are serious about landing him. No offseason moves. Roki doesn’t even know who his catcher will be. Or the true state of ownership. We NEED Roki to save us from ourselves. The question is does HE need us? And if he comes will we spend and keep putting a competitive team around him? If not we don’t deserve him.

Padres fans are clueless.

All Padres fans must be delusional

There would be nothing smart about it😂

Great Video

He played baseball.... He knew baseball.. He loved baseball.. 10 yrs.. he was baseball

Should have been in ... 1983 regular vote....

Don Mattingly please ⚾️

I think the service time is a little overstated for Skenes. Whether his talent was MLB ready or not, he never pitched close to the workload a full MLB season has. For him to come up in May was necessary to allow him to pitch through the end of the season - giving him that time to ramp up. To say Skenes doesn't deserve the award due to being 2-4 starts short just incentivizes teams from bringing up phenom rookies sooner. Pittsburgh is going to be penalized for this award because he didn't meet the service time requirement, but was good enough to win anyway. The Pirates may have been better overall if they just left Skenes in the minors for the whole year and instead gave him the full 2025. Would you have preferred that? If this were an MVP conversation, the games-played would have more weight to it, especially since pitchers already have the CYA. But there is no pitcher ROTY award for Skenes, so they are forced to compete against each other, even when their roles are not exactly comparable. That being said, it wasn't as much of a snub as it appears on narrative alone. Merrill may have been super clutch, while playing a premium position, but the 156 games he played this year only garnered him 4.4 baseball-reference WAR (5.3 fangraphs WAR). Skenes, without the whole month of April, accumulated 5.9 baseball reference WAR (4.3 fangraphs WAR). Skenes was able to accumulate more of a results-based, cumulative stat (bWAR) than Merrill, in fewer games played. The value there kinda offsets the games-played factor. Also, the Kerkering over Skenes because he pitched the whole year is hilarious lol 133.0 IP "not a full year" but 63.0 IP "pitched the whole year"

If Roki Sasaki knows business and takes the smart route, he should sign with the Yankees. He alone will be the only Japanese star and his Jerseys will likely sell more in the east coast. This allows him to leverage the Yankee market to attract more endorsements.

John olerud is a hof

Keith Hernandez not being in the HOF is an absurdity. Olerud getting less than 1% of the vote is absurd. But he played in the peak of devastating first base sluggers and most of those guys didn’t get in either. Seems like a bit of HOF bias. All those guys did was defend well beyond their compatriots, give you well above average seasons without giving you superstar monster seasons, and WIN. EVERYWHERE. THEY. WENT. That HAS to count for something, yet it seems it doesn’t. They made their teams instantly better all the time, no matter the situation. Not a lot of players can say that.

Give him a new contract . Don't lose him like Chicago did.he might keep hitting to 36

Compare Scott Rolen with Jim Edmonds. No comparison, if Scott Rolen is a HOF, Jim Edmonds easily is based on defense & offense.

He didn't play big league ball so WGAF?

Racial pandering to the tenth degree! His stats don’t matter! He didn’t play MLB

Stop talking. Shut up! Show highlights. Facts. You talk way too much.

I know that Brian McCann was not one of the best catchers ever, but he had a solid career. Seven time all-star, six-time silver slugger, he hit 282 career home runs, but his WAR is very low, just 32 career WAR. I do believe he'll get some consideration. Great video!

As a Mariners fan, I wouldn't be shocked if Felix Hernandez doesn't get in. His prime years were definitely cut short by his health. That being said, imagine if he was on a team with better run support. Winning the Cy Young with a 13-12 record speaks volumes about how filthy the dude was in his prime. Also if Ichiro isn't Unanimous we riot.

Kirby’s batting average ranks in the top 5 since 1960, for players with at least 2,500 at bats. And of those 5 players, only Kirby and Roberto Clemente hit 200 homers.

Both white and black baseball players played winter ball in the Caribbean. To, as he says, make money. They weren't paid millions and millions until free agency cam about in the 70s. Barnstorming is still barnstorming and while there is some seriousness to it, there is also an exhibition quality to it and frequently the "local" team were a bunch of folks from the local factory. That's part of why barnstorming stats aren't included. That said, who can say that when, in a barnstorming game, pitcher X did or didn't bear down against hitter Y. Honus Wagner said it was an honor to be compare to Pop Lloyd (look him up). But Satchel Paige wasn't even the greatest Negro League pitcher. In a poll, the Negro League players themselves voted "Smokey" Joe Williams as the greatest Negro League pitcher. Satchel Paige was more of a showman and self promoter so he gets more press.

Best pitcher in the league!

bro you just yapping

worst 8 minutes i have ever watched

It was supposed to be about the best players but since some of the best players want to opt out then make it about the most exciting players yeah the best one should be there

Buddy your opinion don't mean nothing

He deserves to be there He's the most exciting guy to watch in the league

that made no sense all. if elly was there then skenes should be there. pretty sure skenes has done alot more this year than elly had done last year at AS break.

You have no idea what the All Star Game is even about. It’s about showcasing the best and for MLB to gain more viewers and gain more revenue. It’s all about the $$$$

He’s gonna win the Cy Young

Ok dude.

Did Kent ever play with the Pirates?

MLB was stupid to have barred black players. They would have made far more money had they hired able Negro League players. Spectators don't care about the color of players, they care about how the players play!

as far as records, it's mixing apples and oranges...absolutely he belongs in the HOF...shamefully the wrong people ruled baseball in not allowing.. a massive stain on baseball and it's records and society in general...what were we thinking or not thinking?

who cares, we all goin to go back in time to check? just the blacks trying to take shots at white baseball players, they cant stand to see a white athlete be great....... blacks always try and knock down whitey...