On Friday, the Mets signed infielder Donovan Walton. He's a 30-year-old who has appeared in 70 games over parts of five major league seasons and is likely to be a featured utility man at Triple-A Syracuse, with another in camp.
With apologies to Walton, the stakes will change in this week's MLB news.
Welcome to the big baseball week of the winter, when the stoves heat up starting Monday night.
The Yankees will play the Mets (Saturday) and the Red Sox (on thursday) and the Blue Jays (Friday), a team known to play against Juan Soto and Scott Boras. Hopefully, a squad of at least Hal Steinbrenner, Brian Cashman, and Aaron Boone will fly to Southern California and outwit the competition to persuade Soto to return to the Bronx long-term, and quickly. . No one wants the sweepstakes to drag on for months to come, especially teams that don't know how much money they have left over for other free agents.
