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Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish (left) and Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw.
Since this will be viewed as an attempt to improve upon an Evan Grant column (even while, technically, it's not), let's just start with that as a premise. Where exactly does such a thing fall on the spectrum between Impossible Task and How Could You Not?
We're about to find out.
Grant treated readers Wednesday to the choice of paying Yu Darvish now -- one year before his first Rangers contract expires -- or trading him now to avoid possibly losing him as a free agent for next to nothing (first-round picks will no longer be compensation).