MESA, Arizona – Another day, another round of shots at the cheating Astros and the soft-on-crime commissioner of baseball.
From the Yankees’ Aaron Judge in Tampa, Florida, to three-time World Series winner Jon Lester in Cubs camp in Arizona, the anger and disgust around baseball on showed again Tuesday little sign of going away anytime soon.
Lester minced no words when asked about commissioner Rob Manfred’s recent self-defense for deciding not to strip the Astros of their 2017 title – citing lack of precedent and calling the World Series trophy just “a piece of metal.”
“To me that’s somebody who’s never played our game,” said Lester, who won with the Red Sox in 2007 and 2013 and with the Cubs in 2016.