And the Yanks are only 4-3 against the Orioles. I think Jax said at the start of the season that's a team you're supposed to stomp into the dust every time out.
Hard to say, but getting Verdugo and Downs for 1 year of Mookie, with the Dodgers paying him $27 million, was a damn good return. Not sure how Bloom was supposed to do any better than that.
One thing I admire on Mookie's part is that he hasn't said anything about how he was willing to negotiate and couldn't understand why the Red Sox wouldn't, or that type of thing. He said they didn't owe him anything and he didn't owe them anything.
They made offers in previous years, including one for 8/$200 mill that he said he came close to accepting - and might have, if his mother didn't sort of talk him out of it.
Yes, we've talked about this before.
My guess is that when they got Mookie's demand, they saw no hope for a resolution at their number. Maybe they didn't want things to get drawn-out and public and unpleasant?
It's all speculation.
I don't know. If the reports are accurate, Mookie asked for $420 million.
My theory is that the Red Sox line in the sand was somewhere around $350 million. Keeping in mind that this was 2 years before his free agency, that would be very reasonable.