Over at ESPN, Buster Olney and Jesse Rogers shared their perspectives on what’s happening right now behind the scenes with the MLB offseason. There’s plenty in there to peruse, including some notes on Alex Bregman that Michael will be discussing shortly.
I wanted to call out something on the pitching side, because it’s felt this way for a while, and Olney is specifically giving it voice :
“Which other free agent pitchers are coming up most in your recent conversations? Olney: Suare...
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