MINNEAPOLIS -- We offer you today an existential question: Can the untradeable contract become tradeable?
That it is now even reasonable to ask is a remarkable development for the Rangers.
Shin-Soo Choo was supposed to pay dividends to the Rangers in the early years of the seven-year, $130 million contract he signed with the team before 2014. Logic said the latter half, as he reached the second half of his 30s, was likely going to be a sunk cost.
Here he is, though, less than a month shy of his 36th birthday, among the leaders in reaching base in a league where that is becoming a lost skill.