Greetings and salutations.
- The Red Sox made a major free agent signing, inking outfielder Chris Young to a two-year, $13 million deal. You thought I meant David Price? Nah, I already covered that one.
- In Price, Ken Rosenthal thinks that the Red Sox finally found someone worth spending big bucks on. Of course, he admits there are no guarantees.
- Dayn Perry has five thoughts on the Price signing.
- The Cardinals were reportedly the runner-up in the Price sweepstakes. But reportedly the Red Sox offer blew every other offer away.
- With Price signing, the expectation is that Zack Greinke will sign soon, likely with either the Dodgers or the Giants.
- The Diamondbacks offer to Johnny Cueto was rejected. Nick Piecoro looks at where the DBacks might go from here.
- Going back to the Jordan Zimmermann signing, Grant Brisbee writes that the Tigers keep spending because they don't have any other options.
- Andrew Simon looks at the success rate of other pitchers who have gone from the NL to the AL in recent years.
- There was a trade as the Mariners sent Mark Trumbo to the Orioles for Steve Clevenger. Really? Steve Clevenger? Did he have to wait in a hotel room in Des Moines until they told him?
- As expected, the Twins signed Korean slugger Byung-ho Park to a four-year, $12 million deal. Park is expected to serve as the Twins DH.
- Kendrys Morales won this year's Edgar Martinez DH Of The Year Award. I didn't even know that was a thing.
- Lots of teams are calling the Braves about Shelby Miller. The Braves are reportedly asking for a lot at the moment.
- The Marlins have reportedly decided to hire Barry Bonds as their new hitting coach.
- Ken Rosenthal thinks that both Bonds and the Marlins could benefit from this arrangement.
- Will Leitch asks how much impact can a hitting coach like Bonds have on the team. He also asks what Bonds hiring means for baseball's relationship with PEDs and those who used them.
- Craig Calcaterra tries to explain what Bonds' return to the game means.
- Speaking of the Marlins coaching staff, Billy the Marlin is listed as one of their coaches on their team website. So Bonds won't have the biggest head on the Marlins coaching staff.
- Free agent pitcher Joba Chamberlain signed with the Indians. Cleveland promised to keep the bugs away. (Really.)
- The Mexican baseball league (LMB) has finally agreed to do away with a rule that they never admitted existed in the first place: Mexican ballplayers who sign first with an MLB club will no longer be blacklisted from ever playing in LMB.
- Bill James recently argued that teams would be better off going to a three-man starting rotation. David Schoenfield thinks it might be a good idea.
- Paul Lukas reviews the new Padres uniforms. It's a mixed grade.
- Tim Rohan looks at MLB's tradition of handing out rings to the World Series loser and how this relates to the Mets.
- Rob Neyer tells the story of how a former minor leaguer finally got his Northwest League Championship ring, 37 years late.
- After last year's "Major League" cards, Topps is releasing "Bull Durham" baseball cards this season.
- And finally, as part of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," the two biggest stars on Charlie Brown's beloved Giants, Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner, offered to give him some baseball lessons. And if Willie McCovey had only hit the ball three feet higher . . .
And tomorrow will be a better day than today, Buster.