From spending the last week or two talking about baseball players who aren’t getting paid to today talking about baseball players who are getting paid.
Since I’ve written this, the MLB season started in Tokyo between the Mariners and Athletics at 4:35 am Chicago Time.
- MIke Trout, the greatest baseball player of his generation (and maybe of any generation), has agreed to a ten-year, $360 million contract extension that will keep him in Orange County for his entire career. (Well, unless the Angels move to Long Beach, I suppose.