On Monday, Yahoo’s Tim Brown and Jeff Passan reported, with modest detail, upwards of a dozen teams descending on Las Vegas in advance of next week’s Winter Meetings. Their mission, to a one: Pitch woo at Bryce Harper, the 26-year-old megawatt star, with a contract covering, essentially, the rest of his playing days.
What ho, the Chicago White Sox are listed among the dozen!
The highest-arching of our 2018 offseason plans included some form of Bryce Harper contract, upwards of $400 million, if memory serves. Offseason South Side Sox plans transforming into Jerry Reinsdorf-backed reality seem to be Two Very Different Things, however.