DD signed Sale to the extension in late March 2019.
So that would mean they wanted to fire him while he was negotiating a 145 million deal.
Does that make any sense to you?
I see two areas in which MLB is trying to grow revenue recently, and they're both pretty yucky:
1) Gambling-Draft Kings/FanDuel.
2) Nike swooshes on uniforms.
You've been proven right on it so far.
I was fine with it at the time. Some Recency Bias in there, no doubt. But I just thought for a guy with Eovaldi's stuff and his age, it wasn't an outrageous amount. We were all aware of the injury risks. I don't think anyone expected that he would have the 'loose bodies' issue again. Has any other pitcher in history who had TJS had a reoccurrence fitting that description?