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Yu Darvish needs to get his stuff straight.
In an offseason perpetually slow as this one, fans don't deserve to be led on only to have things not be true when it's crunch time. It's happened with Gerrit Cole, J.D. Martinez, and now Yu Darvish is out here spreading rumors.
Last week, Yu Darvish released a number of teams that had interest in him, including the
Sorry guys. My mistake.
— ダルビッシュ有(Yu Darvish) (@faridyu) January 12, 2018
Actually they did make offer but the numbers are not correct. https://t.co/0mIvMlZTPJ
OK, so the Yankees made him an offer, but he got the numbers wrong, which is kind of important. But at least we know the Yankees made him an offer, right??
Wrong.
Hearing that, contrary to tonight's developments, the Yankees have not made an offer to Yu Darvish.
— Bryan Hoch (@BryanHoch) January 13, 2018
Oh....well then.
Yep. Apparently that is not true.
— Bryan Hoch (@BryanHoch) January 13, 2018
Yikes. Yu Darvish, maybe you should leave your Twitter fingers out of this until you actually sign a contract.
Actually, I'll just wait for updates from anyone but Yu Darvish.