I begin this piece with two suppositions. Everything hinges on these two suppositions and I admit they may be flawed. The first supposition is that Jim Crane and his fellow minority owners do not have the appetite to get into long-term big money agreements with baseball players. That could be for any variety of reasons. Perhaps their stomach cannot handle the sticker shock. Perhaps they have listened to the decision scientists and they told Crane it wasn’t a good idea.
I could wring my hands over this decision. I could rail or bang my head against a wall until I am bleeding all over the rug.