This sounds believable. The Athletic article from the other day made it sound like the Angels were the only team that was willing to spend money on him and all the other teams were lukewarm about it.
If you're gonna sign a shitbag pos human you might as well go in the deep end of the pool and sign Bauer instead of Clevinger. Just to clarify I am not in favor of going the route.
Instead of going after players the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Giants, and Phillies are after we are swimming in the shallow end with teams like the horsefeathers Reds.
I hope I'm wrong here but I think the only way they go after Chapman is if his market completely collapses. Shoot they might just be waiting things out to do the same thing with Bellinger.
I had no idea it was even a filter. I thought you guys were just typing that out the whole time haha. Thanks for sharing and sorry to hear about your friend.
Ohtani and Yamamoto are not exactly sure things. Ohtani had had 2 TJs and Yamamoto is unproven. It’s not to say I don’t want to sign them but there is risk involved.