Just my luck. I took my last vacation days of the year to be with family at Christmastime that I hadn’t seen in a while. With two days left in the year, I get sick. No work, no pay. Rats.
As I recover, I remember what happened 35 years ago today. Catfish Hunter, on 12/31/74, signed a free-agent deal with the Yankees. Many thought his an isolated case (and the arbitration vote to make him a free agent was split), but then with the decision on the Messersmith/McNally case, free agency was here to stay. Baseball had changed.
Marlon Byrd signed a 3-year deal to go to the Cubs. Cross another one off the Yanks’ wish list, although I don’t know how much interest the Yanks had in Byrd. $5M/yr for 3 years. I don’t know if that was above what the Yanks are looking to pay out. Byrd replaces the traded Milton Bradley in CF for the Cubs. See some previous posts in which I wrote about Byrd’s numbers for 2009 and for his career. Just put “Byrd” in the search window and the filter should work.
The Phils got Danys Baez for bullpen help.
First Mangino, now Leach. What a month for Big 12 coaches.
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