09:34 For those wondering why Buster Posey wasn't included here, this statistic had a set value of 80% games played at catcher. When lowered to 50%, it also includes 2012 and 2014 Buster Posey, accounting for his time played at first base.

Trading Ragans for your first ever World Series ring seems not lopsided

That Marquis commercial is genuinely one of the funniest videos on the internet

I'm not sure Texas wins the World Series without Chapman.  His outings were stressful, but he did generally get the job done.

ngl the Juan soto trade was pretty lopsided in Washington's favor, SD got 1.5 years of soto and Washington got many top porspects, with james wood and McKinzie Gore leading the pack

I personally kinda want to see a lose lose or pointless deadline deals videos tbh

Texas literally doesn’t make the playoffs last year without Chapman. He unironically is the reason we could even get to the World Series in the first place.

I also highly doubt that ragans is even close to his current self with the rangers pitching dev. It’s just historically awful

I would argue Ragans is a win win because Texas won a world series
(If not than it is at least not a loss for Texas)

As a Rangers fans, I am grateful for the Chapman/Ragans trade. It would obviously be great to have Ragans back this year, but with baseball, you just never know if things would've turned out the same way, so I'm glad the trade went down, and I'm glad to see Cole doing so well in KC!

The Rangers won a ring so any rental is worth it according to most. Players would rather have rings than regular season wins I can tell you that.

as a royals fan, having cole ragans and seth lugo leading our rotation honestly feels like a dream. we've been so bad for so long, that having 2 dominant starters that when they're on the mound, we expect to win and have optimism surrounding them feels so foreign to me

I would blame the Ragans thing on Texas failing to develop him more than the trade. His velocity jumped even further in KC which can't be ignored, and has been arguably the biggest piece of his breakout

Shout out to Jason Marquis. He was fielding batting practice with the Cardinals at Wrigley when Albert Pujols was batting. Ball was hit his way, turned to the fans and saw the only kid wearing a Cardinals jersey and proceeded to throw it to me. I will always remember that.

You know it's a great Saturday when jolly posts

I think it's tough to judge a trade for a player like Ragans. Because, yes, he's doing much better in KC, but it's entirely possible that his performance is due to change in pitching coaches and staff. Sometimes guys say they go to a new staff and the mentorship just clicks something in them. It's entirely possible Ragans stays unproductive in Texas because it's not a right fit for him, so in that sense, he would've never had the WAR value in Texas. Idk, just my 2 cents. I'm a Braves fan, and I remember Mazzone helping shape a lot of guys who might not have had the same career elsewhere.

Love the Pokemon music in the background

Koji Uehara striking out 12 K/9 with an upper 80's fastball not that long ago proves movement can be as effective as velocity if not more. Even analytics nerds go between velocity and movement. Although they always ignore command.

For Blue Jays fans, Ragans will always be “the guy who fell over on the mound” (if you don’t know what this is about, Jomboy did a breakdown on it)

I don’t really agree with the Ragans/Chapman trade on here.  Like sure, it’s lopsided when looking at the trade by itself, but Chapman was a contributor for a World Series winning team as a rental.

There are a lot of hindsight in these kinds of videos, but I do find it very interesting. I'm also on the side that I'm perfectly fine with giving up prospect to win a championship. I think it also has to be stated that some of the players mentioned wouldn't have developed the same without the change of staff/scenery. Lets face it, some teams are horrible at developing players so they are better off trading for established players because a lot of these high skilled prospects won't become stars under their hands.