“I guess I’m trying to say, ‘Grab anything that goes by.’ It may not come around again.” – John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
I believe a showdown exists between Jed Hoyer and Scott Boras that has completely put the ice on this hot stove season. A few of the next free agent dominoes to fall are Boras clients, almost all have been linked to the Cubs, and neither executive seems willing to blink first. Welcome to baseball’s Steinbeckian winter.
Even though I’ve never liked Boras much, he does his job better than anybody.