Yu Darvish, one of the “Big Four” of remaining free-agent starting pitchers (along with Jake Arrieta, Alex Cobb and Lance Lynn), has been considering five teams:
We’ve pretty much known about all of those clubs for a while now; if the Astros do eventually complete the rumored trade for Gerrit Cole, that would probably eliminate them from this list.
Late Wednesday, though, we learned that there’s another team in the mix, the traditional “mystery team.” The source is one no one can refute:
Clearly, Darvish knows how to play this game.