Sometimes the press release reverberates with a cannonball splash, like four years ago today, when Texas was awarded the exclusive rights to negotiate with Nippon Ham righthander Yu Darvish after submitting a record posting bid of $51.7 million.
Other times it registers with a mild ripple, like the anticipated reunion with Colby Lewis, the free agent signing of 33-year-old journeyman Justin Ruggiano, or last spring’s trade, days before the season opened, of a player to be named later or cash for out-of-options and out-of-the-Cardinals’-plans lefthander Sam Freeman.
The thing about that second category is those moves often make the whole greater than the sum of its parts — without wiping out the chance at that cannonball.