Offseason Lowdown: Arms Race
Oh man. What a week for perennial AL East faves Boston and New York as each raced time to pull an ace out of its sleeve. As expected, Andy Pettitte returned to the Yanks, while the Bosox averted disaster and overcome both Scott Boras and consipiracy theories galore to bag Daisuke Matsuzaka. We cover these two stories in this week’s Offseason Lowdown.
Apparently, the Playstation 2 was behind Joel Zumaya’s late-season wrist woes; Jerome Williams is running out of chances; and David Newhan was sent packing from Charm City.
We cover all this and a whack of other fantasy baseball issues in this week’s Offseason Lowdown.
[...] Taking a shot at the Pirates’ asking price for maybe the next killer closer was a bit out of line. Yes, the Pirates are often a joke, but they are not a 100 per cent joke. The Pirates play without anyone in MLB paying attention. What would you think the Yankees or anyone else would pay for a cheap up and coming best closer? FYI regarding the Yankees and other big spending teams, I must have been mistaken. I thought baseball was a game and each team needs the others. It seems the goal now is to kill the other teams and bankrupt them. Whatever happened to being for the good of the game? I am sure glad their great minds or MLB are showing how foolish the NFL is. I guess next week the NFL will go bankrupt. Next contract MLB and the union work on they need to put guns on the table to remind them that it is a partnership and game, a very profitable one at that. Sorry, you just said the wrong thing at the wrong time. [...]