it truly is infuriating. i'm half convinced that if the cubs had signed carlos beltran he would've gone into a jeff blauser-like death spiral instead of posting two very good seasons.
i almost don't see the pont of texas trying to trade olt. his stock would have dropped so sharply that he's probably worth more to them in the hope that he recovers and plays well than he is in a trade. certainly nobody's going to treat him as more than a secondary piece of a trade.
yeah i guess he was a front end starter if you look only at his ERA for one or two seasons and completely ignore his strikeout rate and other peripherals, in addition to his rather ordinary stuff.
i'm assuming he's tuned in and knows that this means he'll have to accept the 440k or whatever, right? would be weird to tweet this if he wasn't planning on accepting. yeah that would be really weird. unless he was really drunk or something.