This Week in Baseball – Keuchel/Kimbrel, Snell’s Raise, King Felix’s Streak, ARod Engaged, Loaiza’s Cocaine
Keeping Up with Kimbrel/Keuchel…
Usually when there are top free agents available on the market, we get to hear lots of rumors and whispers and fantasies about where those players will land. Not with Dallas Keuchel and Craig Kimbrel. We are just a couple weeks away from the start of the season and neither of them has a place to play. The homeless problem in this country is a lot worse than any of us imagined.
Decent Proposal…
Alex Rodriguez announced via Instagram that he is engaged to Jennifer Lopez. According to an insider, Rodriguez popped the question during their getaway in the Bahamas. Love truly is the greatest performance enhancer.
Minimum Wage…
Last season Blake Snell won the AL Cy Young Award and his reward is just a $15,500 pay increase. It’s even worse when you factor in that $10,000 of the raise is built in to a league-wide hike in the minimum salary. My advice is start your own thing and rake in the millions: Blake Snell’s Snails for all your snail needs!
Long Live the King…
For first time since 2008, Felix Hernandez won’t start the Mariners’ opening day. Last season, King Felix became the first Mariners pitcher, and only the seventh pitcher overall to start an opener in 10 consecutive seasons. He’s being dethroned by Marco Gonzales. Sounds like the work of those pesky Lannisters! (Yes, it’s a Game of Thrones reference, get over it.)
Coke Is It…
Former All-Star pitcher Esteban Loaiza was sentenced to three years in jail in a cocaine case. He pleaded guilty to federal drug charges involving 20 kilograms of cocaine that he admitted he planned to distribute. As a former pitcher he was probably going to distribute it on the corners.
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