And nobody said much about Marwin Gonzalez.
It is funny how different guys get perceived.
Cora-cheated but still likable.
Bregman-cheated and would be unlikable even if he didn't.
Touche. But Chapman seems to have been cleared, so to speak.
Actually it's going to be interesting to see how the Chapman signing is received. I'm pretty surprised by it, frankly.
Great stuff but a lot of question marks too.
Probably the biggest issue is that it's only 2 years of control.
Some would say "well just sign him to a big extension right away". But then he's not much different from a big-risk big-money free agent.
No, the new Wild Card setup has increased the crapshoot factor a lot. Every year is different, of course. This year was not so much a crapshoot.
The 2022-2024 Rangers pulled a 2012-2014 Red Sox-outhouse to penthouse and back to outhouse.
Just in case you can't get enough fake news and rumors about Soto here, here's a link to the Sox Prospects forum thread about it.
https://forum.soxprospects.com/thread/7733/juan-soto?page=1&scrollTo=737705