Apparently baseball’s busy Monday warranted a Tuesday holiday as the offseason engine stalled again. Oh wait, the Yankees signed Wade LeBlanc to a minor league deal. Huge upside move. Huge.
Derek Jeter has found another way to trim the fat, and this time it doesn’t involve giving away star players for next to nothing. The Marlins CEO wants to get rid of that awful home run sculpture beyond the wall in center. This has been on Jeter’s to-do list since he took over, right after a) getting rid of Jack McKeon and Andre Dawson; b) giving away three of the team’s best players in Giancarlo Stanton, Dee Gordon and Marcell Ozuna; c) skipping the Winter Meetings altogether’ and d) creating a personal hell for their remaining gifted players, like Christian Yelich and newly-acquired Starlin Castro.