In regards to the big story about Ichiro Suzuki today, I am reminded by that famous quote at the end of Jim Bouton’s Ball Four: “A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it was the other way around all the time.”
- Before we get to that Ichiro story, the breaking news last night was that free agent third baseman Mike Moustakas has agreed to return to the Royals on a one-year deal that guarantees him $6.5 million. That’s $10.