Author’s note: To the gentleman who emailed me the other day, asking I make my posts shorter so you can get through them, this one’s for you. — Aaron
The offseason officially begins today.
Okay, I admit that’s just a dramatic line; free agency doesn’t kick off for a little while longer, once MLB’s mandatory quiet phase comes to an end. But the World Series is now over — congratulations to Joe Kelly, who was a Cardinal, and David Price, who should have been (and don’t think I didn’t have tons of conflicting emotions watching Price win a World Series clincher last night) — the trophy has been awarded, we’ve had our first Scott Boras accidental-but-not-really messaging circus, and it’s time to begin the heavy thinking about what will happen between now and Pitchers and Catchers Report Day 2019.