Apologies to Yu Darvish and all, but in the day's most fascinating transaction, the Colorado Rockies will sign 49-year-old rehabbing lefty Jamie Moyer to a minor league deal.
Forty-nine. Rehabbing. (He missed ALL of 2011.) Sure, he's left-handed and has 267 (267!) big league wins, and I have always been a fan. But really? Jamie Moyer?
More than one-third of the players on Colorado's curremt 40-man roster were not yet born when Moyer debuted with the Cubs in June of 1986. I'm willing to wager a fair number of Bauxites weren't either. (Identify yourselves!)
So the primary question is, how is that 55-mile-an-hour "fast"ball going to play in Coors?
We're rooting for you Jamie -- and when I say "we" I speak for the tens of thousands of baseball fans who don't want to be older than every single major league baseball player on an active roster ...
So, seriously -- good luck. Thirty-three more wins and those HOF voters will REALLY have something to debate!
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