As disappointing as Masahiro Tanaka’s 2017 season was, I had convinced myself that he was going to opt-out and the Yankees were going to “Robinson Cano” him. They’d make him look like the bad guy for leaving, when they wouldn’t even try to keep him. Sure that report was later refuted, but I still believed it to be true. I was so sure this was going to happen, I’d have put money on it — if I was a betting man.
Fortunately for my wallet, I don’t gamble. Fortunately for his wallet, neither does Tanaka apparently.