With the Yankees entertaining Patrick Corbin in The Bronx on Thursday, the third and apparently final stop of Corbin’s Acela tour, it’s a great time to invoke the financial wisdom of Friedman.
Not Milton Friedman, the late, lauded economist who once enjoyed a breakfast meeting with Yogi Berra — Yogi praised him for being far more coherent than Casey Stengel — but rather Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations who has guided his club into two straight National League pennants.
“If you’re always rational about every free agent,” Friedman told the Los Angeles Times’ Andy McCullough in December 2016, “you will finish third on every free agent.