And you thought baseball's offseason was quiet
Josh Hamilton of the Los Angeles Angels at the press conference introducing him as the team's newest member at ESPN Zone at Downtown Disney in Anaheim, Calif. (Dec. 15, 2012) Credit: Getty
What a winter it was. The Marlins were gutted, Anthony Bosch of Biogenesis fame became a household name and the Yankees, somehow, didn't wind up with either Josh Hamilton or Felix Hernandez (more on that later).
So in New York, this was a relatively quiet offseason - aside from another Alex Rodriguez PED scandal, of course - as two of baseball's biggest prizes, Hamilton and Zack Greinke, wound up on the West Coast.
Not be outdone, their neighbor to the far north, the Mariners, spent the final days leading up to spring training dotting the I's and crossing the T's on a $175-million contract for King Felix. Whether or not Jesus Montero is behind the plate to catch him is another story - we surely haven't heard the last of those accused in the Biogenesis PED fiasco - but no one's been suspended. Yet.
Anyway, because the games actually don't count until March 31, when the Rangers and Astros kick off their brand spanking new American League West rivalry, let's do the only thing we can do before then - talk about everything else. So here's a random list featuring some of the best and worst of what went on since the Giants left Motown with the trophy.
