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Travis Kelce is making the jump from football to baseball — as the newest MLB team owner.
Kelce might play for the Chiefs in Kansas City, but he’s a Cleveland Heights native and grew up a Guardians fan. (He’s also a fan of other Cleveland sports teams like the Cavaliers — he and fiancée Taylor Swift recently sat courtside for Game 3 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals between the Cavs and Knicks.)
Now, one of the greatest tight ends of all time is a part-owner of his hometown team.
“Everyone knows how much love I have for this city, so to have the opportunity to come back and join the Guardians’ ownership group is the coolest thing in the world,” Kelce said. “I’ve always looked for ways to support and uplift my hometown, so I can’t wait to keep sharing the love and the passion I have for sports and this community as we look to bring a World Series title back to the Land.”
But wait a minute … that means he’s rivals with his own quarterback!
Patrick Mahomes — Kelce’s QB for all three of his Super Bowls — is a part-owner of the Royals, who are the Guardians’ AL Central rivals.
Unlike Kelce bringing it back to his hometown of Cleveland, the Texas-born Mahomes hopped in with his pro town of Kansas City. He joined the Royals’ ownership group back in July of 2020.
So even though Mahomes-to-Kelce is one of the greatest connections of all time on the gridiron, the two superstar teammates are now foes on the baseball diamond.
Kelce will be in the house at Progressive Field to celebrate his new role before the Guardians’ game against the Tigers on Sunday, June 14.
Kelce’s Cleveland fandom produced a viral moment a few years ago when he threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Guardians’ 2023 home opener … and spiked it straight into the ground. Not unlike a football, we suppose.
Kelce also talked about joining the Guards on the latest episode of his New Heights podcast with his brother Jason. Listen here >>
The 2023 American League Cy Young Award winner pitched six scoreless innings against the Rays, who the Bronx Bombers are trying to catch in the AL East race, in his first start in 569 days.
The Yankees were looking ahead to Cole’s return to the rotation for a long time. Cole’s debut was almost like a second Opening Day for the Yanks. Now that he’s back, they’re hoping it’s like he never left.
The way Cam Schlittler is pitching right now, if Cole keeps looking like his old self, the Yankees could have one of the best 1-2 punches in baseball at the top of their rotation.
And as Cole said about being back on the mound: “It’s a little bit like riding a bike.”
OHTANI VS. SUGANO IN ALL-JAPAN DUEL
Shohei Ohtani continues his Cy Young quest tonight, as the two-way superstar takes his 0.73 ERA into his ninth pitching start of the season against the Rockies (10:10 p.m. ET, MLB.TV).
This one’s going to be an all-Japanese pitchers’ duel, with Ohtani facing off against Tomoyuki Sugano. It will be the 21st matchup of two Japanese-born starting pitchers in MLB history.
The last time two Japanese pitchers squared off was Opening Day 2025, when Ohtani’s teammate Yoshinobu Yamamoto faced the Cubs’ Shota Imanaga in the Tokyo Series.
The only one of the 21 matchups to come in the postseason also involved Yamamoto, who outdueled Yu Darvish and the Padres in the winner-take-all Game 5 of the 2024 NLDS.
The first matchup of Japanese starters came on May 7, 1999, when the Yankees’ Hideki Irabu defeated the Mariners’ Mac Suzuki.
And the best duel as far as actual pitching performances? That has to be Darvish vs. Masahiro Tanaka at Yankee Stadium on June 23, 2017, when Darvish threw seven scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts for the Rangers and Tanaka went eight scoreless with nine K’s for the Yankees.
Ohtani himself has never pitched against a fellow Japanese starter in his MLB career.
The Swingman Classic, founded by Ken Griffey Jr. in 2023, is a showcase that highlights players from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The 2026 Swingman Classic will be played at Citizens Bank Park on July 10, opening MLB All-Star Week in Philadelphia — where Rollins spent the first 15 seasons of his 17-year big league career.
“For [Griffey] to come back and say, ‘You’re not forgotten about,'” Rollins said. “‘And we’re going to put you on the biggest stage there is, and that’s an MLB stadium at the All-Star [Game], which is our primetime event.’ It doesn’t get bigger than that.”
Weeks, who played 14 Major League seasons and was an All-Star for the Brewers in 2011, played college baseball at an HBCU, Southern University.
“Just coming back and getting a chance to manage a team that gave me the chance to play college baseball,” Weeks said. “What more can you ask than that?”
J. Jonah Jameson himself was in the house for the Mets’ game against the Reds yesterday — actor J.K. Simmons, that is. And the Amazin’s had an unpleasant surprise in store for the Daily Bugle editor-in-chief.
Of course it was Spider-Man, who was hiding behind a copy of the Daily Bugle bearing the front-page headline: “Masked Web-Slinger: A Citi Field Menace!” … “menace” being Jameson’s favorite moniker for the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler.
Simmons plays Jameson, Spider-Man’s No. 1 hater, in the early-2000s Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies and in the current Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Turning around to see Spider-Man in the Citi Field seats, Simmons put on an Oscar-worthy performance in character as Jameson, shaking his fist at his nemesis and turning back to the camera with a scowl.
The Mets are all-in on movie character moments lately — a couple of weeks ago, Tom Hanks reunited with volleyball companion Wilson from “Cast Away” in the form of Mr. Met, complete with bloody handprint.
Editor’s Note: AI isn’t just creating new winners… it’s quietly exposing the companies built on fragile business models.
Today, my colleague Jonathan Rose is joining us to break down the four warning signs he found in nearly every major AI casualty before the market caught on.
More importantly, he explains where institutional capital is rotating next… and why that shift could create the next wave of outsized opportunities for investors willing to follow the money early.
He’s also doing a live event with Marc Chaikin on May 28 at 8 p.m. Eastern — their first-ever public collaboration, where they’re revealing a brand-new combined “Buy” signal and five specific stocks where it’s flashing right now.
I did some research recently that I can’t stop thinking about.
I went back and studied the companies that AI has already destroyed:
Chegg Inc. (CHGG)
Fiverr International Ltd. (FVRR)
Teleperformance SE (TLPFY)
I looked at what they all had in common — not after the AI trend has destroyed them, but before. When the stock was still holding up and nobody was really worried yet.
I found four specific tells. Four characteristics that showed up, in some combination, in every single company before the fall.
Once I had the framework, I started running it forward and applied it to companies that by most measures look fine today. I found 12 names with multiple tells stacking up right now.
Some of them will upset you. You might own a few of them. Someone you respect probably recommended them.
But here’s the important point.
The same four signals that show me where smart money is quietly leaving also show me where it’s quietly arriving.
Institutional capital doesn’t sit in cash. When it rotates out of one place, it shows up somewhere else. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance.
And right now, the somewhere else that smart money is flowing is getting very interesting.
In today’s piece, let’s take a walk through these three things:
The four tells – the warning signs I found in every AI casualty before the market caught on – and the 12 stocks those signals are flashing on right now.
Where the big money rotation is going right now, with some proof from our own track record to back it up.
A stock that sits directly in the path of that rotation. It’s one of the names where both a big trend and the smart money activity are pointing in the same direction at the same time.
Elon Musk is now paying you 15X more than your bank… Thanks to a project he’s been working on for the last 27 years. All you have to do is sign up for his new bank. For years, America’s biggest banks have been telling you they have no choice but to pay you interest rates as low as 0.4% (that’s the national average). Now, suddenly… Elon is exposing many of these bankers for the sharks they really are. He’s not offering double… or triple… or even five times the interest… But 15 times the national average – at 6% per year. This is just one of the radical ways Elon’s new bank is disrupting the financial sector… Luke Lango is revealing how it could impact your money (and how you should prepare) here.
The Four Tells — and the 12 Names
I want to be clear: I didn’t start this research by looking for specific companies. I started by asking what the pattern was. Then I let the pattern find the names.
Here’s what I found.
Tell #1: Coordinated insider selling. Not one executive trimming a position for tax reasons. Multiple senior people selling at the same time, across different titles, in size. When the people who know the business best are quietly getting out together, that’s not a coincidence.
Tell #2: Senior talent leaving for AI companies. Top engineers. Product leads. Salespeople who know where the customers are going. When they start moving to OpenAI, Anthropic, or the hyperscalers, they’re not leaving for the money alone. They’re leaving because they can see the trajectory from the inside.
Tell #3: Pricing model changes. When a software company suddenly pivots from per-seat to consumption-based pricing, they’ll call it “innovation.” It isn’t. It’s a response to AI undercutting their model. Companies that are genuinely winning don’t restructure their pricing under pressure.
Tell #4: CEO denial. This one is almost a perfect inverse signal. The earnings call where the CEO says, “AI cannot disrupt our business — our moat is too wide.” Real moats don’t require that kind of reassurance. When you hear it, pay attention to what’s happening underneath the surface.
The 12 names where I’m seeing multiple tells stack up:
Salesforce Inc. (CRM)
Adobe Inc. (ADBE)
Workday Inc. (WDAY)
Gartner Inc. (IT)
Atlassian Corp. (TEAM)
HubSpot Inc. (HUBS)
EPAM Systems Inc. (EPAM)
DXC Technology Co. (DXC)
Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR)
ServiceNow Inc. (NOW)
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (CTSH)
CoStar Group Inc. (CSGP)
I’m not saying they all collapse tomorrow. I’m saying the smart money is repositioning out of them – and historically, price follows positioning. These are names I’m watching carefully, not holding.
The Other Side of the Rotation
The flip side is more interesting.
Everything that AI is dismantling in software is simultaneously creating demand somewhere else. The infrastructure has to exist before the disruption can happen. The hardware. The computing power. The specialized applications that replace what’s being disrupted.
That’s where the smart money is building right now. And one of the clearest areas of concentration I’m tracking is quantum computing.
I know what you’re thinking: Isn’t quantum just the next hype cycle?
Fair question. But let me tell you what the data actually shows—not the hype narrative, but the smart money activity.
The stock I want to share with you today is Quantum Computing Inc. (QUBT).
This is a small-cap company working on quantum hardware, photonics, and cybersecurity applications. It’s speculative. I’ll say that plainly. But there’s a significant difference between speculation with a defined opinion and proof of big money moving in… and speculation on a story alone.
What’s catching my attention in QUBT isn’t the quantum narrative — it’s the activity. Unusual, concentrated positioning building around this ticker at a time when money is rotating hard out of legacy software and into the infrastructure layer underneath it.
QUBT recently reported a sharp jump in revenue following acquisitions tied to photonics and cybersecurity technologies. And the positioning we’re seeing has the same character as names we’ve caught early before.
We saw similar activity in Rigetti Computing Inc. (RGTI) before our trade on it ran 234% in five days. In MP Materials Corp. (MP) before a 700%-plus gain on our bullish trade. In Albemarle Corp. (ALB) before a 959% gain on a lithium trade.
None of those came from following a story or making a prediction. They came from watching where serious money was moving — and following it before the broader market figured out why.
That’s the setup in QUBT today.
Which brings me to what Marc Chaikinand I are doing on May 28.
Marc has spent 60 years in markets. He created the Money Flow indicator — it’s now in Bloomberg terminals and virtually every major trading platform on the planet. For decades he built research tools for the world’s biggest hedge funds, then walked away to give regular investors access to the same analysis.
Marc can tell you where institutional money is flowing. I can tell you where the highest-conviction positioning is building. We both thought those two things were built to work together.
And so, we’ve spent the last few months putting them together to see what happens.
We backtested the combination against nearly 200 of my real trade recommendations. The results surprised even me. Confirmed setups produced 45% higher average gains than unconfirmed ones. Win rate jumped 17 percentage points. And the filter would have kept us out of two-thirds of losing trades.
We’re calling it the Convergence Trigger. And we’re showing it off for the first time ever at a free event on May 28 at 8 p.m. Eastern (save your seat for tomorrow’s event now).
QUBT is one of five stocks where that Convergence Trigger is flashing right now. You’ll get all five when you sign up for the event’s VIP list.
The rotation is already underway. The question is which side of it you’re on.
The creative trader always wins,
Jonathan Rose Founder, Masters in Trading
P.S. One thing I appreciate about Jonathan’s approach is that he spends less time trying to predict the future and more time tracking where institutional money is actually moving right now. In markets this volatile, that distinction matters. He and Marc Chaikin are breaking down that process — along with five stocks where their new “Convergence Trigger” is flashing — during a free live event on May 28. You can reserve your seat here.
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After the reigning winners topped our first Cy Young poll of the 2026 season, Yankees phenom Cam Schlittler and Phillies lefty Cristopher Sánchez are the new favorites.
MLB Pipeline put together a list of 32 nominees for the best nickname in Minor League Baseball, and you can vote until Friday at noon ET to anoint the Minors’ top moniker.
After a Blue Jays fan snagged a foul ball in the second inning and improbably got ANOTHER one in the fifth, he spread the joy by giving his second souvenir to a young fan.
Willson Contreras batted .458 to win the AL Player of the Week Award, while Ketel Marte broke out with seven extra-base hits and 12 RBIs to claim the NL nod.
The NCAA Regionals begin this week, so we assembled a team of the best player at each position who you can expect to see selected in the 2026 MLB Draft.
