Why is Yu Darvish’s trade scary throughout baseball?

Twenty-nine baseball teams had a chance to acquire one of the best pitchers in the world for little more than a handful of lottery tickets, and only one jumped into it. If this winter’s frozen free agent market weren’t enough of a signal that Major League Baseball has a problem with competitiveness, Yu Darvish’s trade with the San Diego Padres sent a clear reminder that inaction isn’t just -field problem.

Parents’ aggressiveness in dealing with Darvish and former Cy Young winner Blake Snell over a 24-hour period contrasts with the vast majority of the rest of the sport, which has been obstructed by a class of property that uses the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to stop payroll. The money was the contributing factor to the Chicago Cubs, one of the sport’s jewelry franchises, which sent Darvish, its best player in 2020, for a one-year starter Zach Davies and four possible, three d ‘they teenagers who haven’t taken a professional to -a bat and a 20-year-old with less than 300 in rookie ball.

Any criticism of the return is empty without a deeper dive into the reason why a Darvish-type player regained relative misery. The answer to this question unites so many issues that game administrators should be concerned about: the complacency shown by too many franchises; Pandora’s expanded playoff box; the poor appearance of all the highest-income teams in the game practicing some version of austerity simultaneously, and the combined effects on labor relations with a collective agreement less than a year after its expiration.