After Alex Cobb reportedly sought a deal with a $20 million AAV, the Chicago Cubs circled around the remaining top free agent arms like vultures, waiting to pounce. And, on Monday, they singled out a target in the right-hander Yu Darvish.
In a face-to-face meeting that spanned nearly three-and-a-half hours, Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer sat down with Darvish. The Japanese hurler himself sent out a series of tweets detailing said meeting. Here are the points that stood out the most to me, personally. (To be fair, these same points stood out to just about everyone who saw the tweets).