Another win for the analytics department!
What’s that?
Oh.
Another win for the guys in the laundry room!
Come on. Admit it. As a gambit, forking over $182 million to a 30-year-old Kris Bryant is kinda … weird. (Not to Bryant, mind you. His grandchildren have bills to pay.)
In concert with the sagas of Nolan Arenado, Trevor Story and Jon Gray? It’s a cross between outright lunacy and Olympic-level fan trolling.
The Rockies just pulled off the baseball equivalent of leveling the family garage, then buying a convertible afterward in the hopes that your spouse won’t notice the rubble.