After David Price's deal, I'm hoping the Dodgers get Zach Greinke resigned quiçkly and fend off interest from San Francisco Giants
^ Unfortunately for you, and your fellow Dodgers fans, that hasn't happened. Zach Greinke has shockingly agreed agreed a mega deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks. A six-year contract worth $206.5M, or on average, $34.4M a year- an all time record. Reacting quickly to losing out on Greinke, San Francisco have signed former White Sox free agent Jeff Samardzija to a five-year, $90M deal. The Dodgers options are running out fast. Maybe they'll go in for Japanese star Kenta Maeda. Elsewhere in baseball, the Detroit Tigers have signed free agent pitchers Jordan Zimmermann on a five-year $110M deal, and Mike Pelfrey on a two-year, $16M deal. John Lackey has put pen-to-paper on a two-year deal with the Chicago Cubs for $32M. And of course, as mikedafc mentions above, David Price has signed a huge deal with the Boston Red Sox- seven-years, $217M !
Some more big deals laid in ink this week. The biggest move has seen the already mighty-strong Chicago Cubs sign the free-agent pairing of right-fielder Jason Heyward to a huge eight-year $184M deal, and Ben Zobrist penning a four-year $56M pact. The Baltimore Orioles have re-signed relief ace Darren O'Day to a four-year $31M deal. And the Dodgers- desperate to strengthen their (relatively) weak rotation have signed ex-Seattle pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma to a three-year $45M contract.
A lot more happenings from the world of MLB over the last 5 weeks. The Dodgers, having cancelled their deal with Iwakuma (see above), have finally been getting to work on improving the rotation, by signing Kenta Maeda to an eight-year deal, worth a maximum of $90M. They also completed the signing of free agent pitcher Scott Kazmir to a three-year deal worth $48M. Alex Gordon has re-signed with Kansas City, agreeing to a four-year, $72M deal. Daniel Murphy has left the NY Mets to sign with Washington for $37.5M over three years. Gerardo Parra has joined the Colorado Rockies on a three-year deal for $27.5M. Wei-Yin Chen has surprisingly signed with Miami to a big five-year $80M deal. Kansas have signed free-agent pitcher Ian Kennedy to a five-year $70M contract. And lastly, the Baltimore Orioles have finally agreed to meet the demands of their first base slugger Chris Davis by coming to terms on a seven-year $161M deal.
The biggest names remaining in the free agent class of 2016 then are, Justin Upton, Yoenis Cespedes, Dexter Fowler, Yovani Galladro, and Doug Fister.
You can scratch the name of Justin Upton from that list as he has penned a huge six-year, €132M deal with the Detroit Tigers. The best owner in all of baseball, Mike Illitch , has once again shown just how determined he is to end the 32 year drought and bring a World Championship to Detroit.
Opening Day Dodgers behind Kershaw won 15-0 against San Diego Padres
I have heard that you can get an app called At Bat from MLB website, which gives you a free game per day anyone know anything about this
I sub to the premium MLB.TV package and At Bat is a very good app (as is all of the MLB's sub based streaming services, a lot of other sports could learn from these guys). You do get free games, not 100% if its every day there are games being played, but I know you get quite a few.
If you do decide to give it a go I recomend following their Twitter account (if of course, you're on Twitter lol), they advertise on there what's being shown a lot
Oh, overly confident fan message coming in in 3, 2, 1.....and the Cubs with the 2-0 start to the season. WE'RE GOING TO WIN IT ALL BABY! Lmfao
MLB.tv is faultless. As a long time user I can't recommend it enough.
As for the Cubs, I'm still not convinced by their rotation. Arrieta & Lester are very good, but beyond them....I have doubts. Pitching always wins. But then again, Washington have had the best rotation for a while and won zip !
Pitcher Bartolo Colon of New York Mets became the oldest player in MLB history to hit his first home run at ripe old age of 42
A noteworthy moment from Wednesday night. Washington's Max Scherzer tied the all-time MLB record for strikeouts in a 9-inning game when he struck out 20 batters against Detroit. Hot stuff, against a, supposedly, good batting team.