Jack Flaherty’s mom shares the cutest photo of him that might have foreshadowed his Tigers’ signing.Ken Rosenthal looks at how the Yamamoto contract frenzy compares to previous Japanese pitchers heading for MLB contracts.MLB dot com has the latest on Yoshinobu Yamamoto and his reported signing with the Dodgers.
If you celebrate Christmas I hope it’s wonderful for you and your family, and if you don’t celebrate Christmas I hope you at least enjoy your Monday off! While we’ll continue our regularly scheduled programming through the rest of this year, this seems like a good time to pause and let you know how grateful we are for all of you who come to the site day after day and read our work, letting us keep doing what we love to do. Well, it’s here, your last OTC before Christmas, and it’s full to the brim of hot stove wonderings and year-end musings.