Happy Opening Day, friends. While all of you were sleeping fitfully in anticipation, Jerry Dipoto was hard at work last night, inking J.P. Crawford to a major contract extension.
In the great Twitter breaking news wars, Jeff Passan won the first round, and Ken Rosenthal won the second:
First off, congrats to J.P.! You can read all about him in Isabelle’s excellent 40 in 25 piece from a few weeks ago, but we’re only a few years removed from Crawford being a post-hype prospect with significant questions about whether he could hit major league pitching.