COMMENTARY
All around the baseball-loving world this morning, there seems to be a hope from which we are excluded. The Hot Stove has been restoked without the Red Sox in their annual place as in on most everyone.
Gerrit Cole’s got a $245 million baseline offer from the Yankees. Stephen Strasburg might double the $100 million he opted out of after the World Series. His presumed former Washington teammate, Anthony Rendon, might net some of those Texas megabucks we first met 19 Winter Meetings ago, when Alex Rodriguez redefined what we think of when we think of a massive baseball contract.