I think, as pitchers become more injury-prone, the overall market value of elite pitchers will decrease. Even the Dodgers and Yankees can only absorb so many elite pitchers losing 20-25% of their career best years and 20-40% of their contract (or years under team control, as the case may be) to Tommy John surgery.
The market economy will hopefully see that the near-insane risk associated with any single pitcher makes them less valuable, on the whole, than position players. It may then become easier to afford them.
I was okay with it. I appreciate these guys taking the high road. I don't want the country to think we are a team of a bunch of dicks, like the Yankees or others.
Was anyone else upset that the Orioles played station-to-station baseball with Trevino on the mound including holding Urias at 3rd base on what obviously should have been a 2-run single for Mounty?
After all the HBP by the Yankees pitchers, I simply did not see a reason for it.
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