God, baseball is dumb. I mean it’s not. It’s actually the best. But, then again, yeah: it’s dumb. It’s a really, really dumb thing.
News broke out of Fort Myers this morning that Lucas Giolito — the free agent signing who, somehow, was the only starting pitcher the offseason machine spit out during it’s brief time operating at full throttle — suffered a partially torn UCL and will possibly miss the entire season (and much of 2025 if he ends up needing Tommy John surgery).
This hurts. For a lot of reasons it probably shouldn’t hurt all that much: we’ve never even seen Giolito in a Red Sox uniform, he’s coming off a disastrous season, and I wasn’t even sure he was worth tacking on the adjective “major” to the phrase “free agent signing” in the above paragraph.