Maybe younger Yankees fans don’t see it, but the fact that Yu Darvish signed with Cubs is a good thing.
Must we poach every pitcher and player? Must the baseball world west of the Hudson function as our de facto farm system? Isn’t it enough that the Bronx Bombers got the best slugger on the planet, Giancarlo Stanton, for a little more than a MetroCard — to pair him with the second-best slugger on the planet, Aaron Judge?
Since the Joe Torre dynasty of the ’90s, Yankees fans have become spoiled beyond our nation’s tolerance.