Shota Imanaga has reportedly become a free agent after the Cubs have declined to exercise the team's option and he has declined his player option, per multiple reports including MLB's Jordan Bastian.
The GOAT said your teams superstars don’t work hard enough, LMAO!
Last yr, Nestor Cortes said he watched Mookie working in RF b4 WS games, and he’s never seen any player work that hard before every Game..
It’s different over here..
More than 17 years ago, I went to Mobile, Alabama, to meet a 20-year-old everyone said was going to be the next great pitcher. His name was Clayton Kershaw.
I had no idea what he would be, because none of us has any idea what a pitcher will be. But I really liked him. He was a kid, but he had a maturity about him. That rare mixture of confidence tempered by humility.
What he became was astounding. Three Cy Youngs. Two World Series rings. One MVP. Inner-circle Hall of Famer. Forever Dodger. He is one of the defining pitchers of his generation and an all-time great.
I re-read that story today after Kershaw announced his retirement. There are far better things that have been written about Kershaw — do yourself a favor and read @ByMcCullough’s brilliant “The Last of His Kind” — but it made me a little wistful looking back on a career in its infancy when we know it turned into a supernova.
If you’re interested in reading it, my old pals at Yahoo Sports still have it up: https://t.co/NsaHGWqC9F