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Originally Posted by Jiggy_12
I’m getting major “Yu Darvish Sweepstakes” flashbacks. Does anyone remember how painful that was? IIRC it was this same sort of process, teams being eliminated until it was down to the Jays and rangers. Then reports came out that it was officially the Jays, until the rug was pulled minutes later and it was the Rangers all along and the Jays weren’t even that close.
Totally different scenarios (old posting system versus legit free agent) but hard to forget what that felt like
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But in the end the result will be the same. He was going to the Dodgers all along and the Jays will end up being the useful idiot that was never going to happen but allowed the player to negotiate what he wanted from the team he wanted to go to.
