The old friend alert here for Zack Greinke appearing on the list should come as a surprise to absolutely no one who follows this game.
They have one of the worst farms in all of baseball, but they also are one of the only teams in the entire sport who could conceivably absorb 100% of Arenado’s remaining contract and not have it torpedo them.
Doing the right thing has been a long time coming. Despite Rob Manfred’s tone-deaf approach, something good is still finally coming out of all of this. Now, how is it handled?
If you want to play the “He was a Hall of Famer before he touched the stuff” game, consider only what Bonds did through 1998: His 411 homers, 1,917 hits, 445 steals and .