I don’t know if you heard, but the free agency period opened up yesterday. And of course the St. Louis Cardinals did the right thing and made a qualifying offer to free agent target #1, Jason Hayward and to right-handed starter John Lackey. This is what Aaron Gleeman of NBC Sports had to say:
Source: Cardinals make qualifying offers to Jason Heyward, John Lackey
Uhg. That’s because Lackey is a 37-year-old with an arm/shoulder that could give out at any moment. The likelihood of him being anything more than a so-so mid- to back-of-the-rotation starter going forward are slim.