I agree, because starting pitching with any MLB pedigree at all is still a precious commodity. If you sign a guy like Eovaldi for a low cost you might catch lightning in a bottle. If not, 5 mill won't kill you.
The source on this, apparently, is Christopher Smith of MassLive.
But in the article in question Smith played Mister Magoo and erroneously reported that Bradley was under control for 2020 and 2021.
Sometimes the 'ace' is just the guy who's pitching best at the time. The ace of the 2018 postseason was the fellow on the cover of the DVD set. His initials are DP.
Boone is the quintessential modern manager. He pulled Green there mainly because he wants to keep Green's pitch count reasonable - he's thinking about the rest of the series rather than focusing 100% on winning this particular game.
Green is a guy who has thrown 35-40 pitches in numerous games.
Always easy to second-guess from the armchair, of course.
Not to be fighting over peanuts, but I'm quite sure the 234 mill number for the Yankees is correct. It explains why they capped their offer to Keuchel at 11.5 mill and wouldn't match the 13 mill offered by Atlanta.