Listen, I know a lot of you are already skeptical after seeing the title, and I get it. But what I found much more interesting than Bob Nightengale’s actual predictions for Yu Darvish and Jake Arrieta was the information he provided in support of them.
We saw earlier from Ken Rosenthal that Darvish was weighing multiple $100 million-plus offers, but Nightengale reports that there are “several teams who have offered five-year deals.” Though the last report on the Cubs’ pursuit of the Japanese righty had them unwilling to exceed four years, it figures that they would be among those several teams.