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.
Of course.
That's why I say the real onus is/was on the docs.
I also wonder if there was any discussion on having some sort of medical clause in the contract, like with Lackey's and others. Needless to say, players and their agents hate that s***.
I think we all do now.
But it's very common for players to say they will negotiate an extension in the offseason, but not once the season starts.
Obviously that puts more risk on the team, but should lower the amount of the contract.
We know that Henry was fully on board with that. He was the one who said they didn't want to repeat the mistake they made with Lester.
And if Sale was 100% Chris Freakin' Sale, it was a discount deal.
I just can't understand how the docs could fail to detect his arm issues. Do we have substandard equipment or something?