For a moment, it felt like the Yankees might get the last laugh. The Padres didn’t let it happen.
For a few days there, San Diego Padres fans were staring down the kind of offseason twist that makes you irrationally mad at math.
Not due to Michael King being unworthy of that kind of money. Nor due to San Diego having no way to bring him back. The worst possible team to land this deal was simply sitting in front of them, and that would be none other than the New York Yankees swooping in for a reunion and taking off with the cleanest "we're good" spin out of all possible teams.