I think I'm down to one topic I can argue about, which is Eovaldi. I don't get the excitement about trading him if he has a good season. So we would get rid of 2 years @ 17 million. Terrific! Then for legit starters we'd be down to E-Rod, with one year left on his contract. Yee-haw!
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.