A little over twenty-four hours after the Cubs announced the team signed free agent pitcher Yu Darvish to six-year deal worth up to $150 million, $126 guaranteed as reported by Ken Rosenthal , the Cardinals announced their counter-move*.
Yeah, as Craig Edwards stated earlier today, “the optics are not great”. They are even worse when you consider Bud Norris has some pretty garbage opinions about how non-American born (this particular instance seems to be directly specifically toward Latino) players should play baseball. You can read the stomach-churning comments in full here, in Jorge L.