After an different season, it's been a slow offseason. With every team having lost money last season and the Yankees reporting major losses. With teams not knowing how much money they have or will make. Yesterday the market finally started to heat up, with the Yankees finally singing D.J Lamieu and later in the Day going out and getting a Corey Kluber. These were very team friendly contracts with D.J getting 6 years and 90 million, an average annual value of 15 million and Kluber is one a 1 year, 11 million dollar deal. D.J is as close as you get to a five tool player in this day and age when most guys are striking out or swinging for the fences. Now the Yankees can move ahead with building their team and their pitching staff behind Garrett Cole and now Corey Kluber. Will Tanaka come back to the bronx now. Will these signings open up the free agent market enabling guys like George Springer, Didi Gregorius and JT Realmuto amongst other free agents to sign, the market has been slow to develop for everyone. These are moves that had to be made by the Yankees after you let, the crosstown Mets steal the front page with the trade for francisco Lindor and carlos carrasco.
It has been reported that the MLB season will start on time, which is a somewhat interesting turn of events but I guess you don't want to piss your players off with the CBA coming to an end. I also saw that the MLB wants to keep the 7 inning double headers from last season, this kind of changes strategy and reminds you of high school and college baseball. They also want to keep the extra inning rule of starting the inning with a runner on second, this did not have the impact I thought it would with the game all of a sudden ending. If you were going to keep this rule, I would have moved it back to something like the twelfth inning.
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