Each day brings us closer to the eventual heat death of the universe and the eventual trade of Shane Bieber. You might be cheering for both, you might be cheering for neither, but both seem inevitably on the horizon, however distant.
As a quick recap — not that you, informed reader, need one — Bieber is under team control through the 2024 season and he’s making $10 million this year and will certainly get a raise next year either through arbitration or a one-year deal to avoid that nasty business. His performance is not what it was in his Cy Young-winning 2020 season, but he’s still pretty darn good.