The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired beginning pitcher Jack Flaherty on the commerce deadline, however it wasn’t with out competitors.
The New York Yankees initially had a preliminary commerce settlement lined up for Flaherty, indicating he would find yourself in pinstripes. Nevertheless, the Yankees backed out of the deal attributable to a failed bodily.
There was not way more data launched pertaining to Flaherty’s medical information, however it was critical sufficient for the Yankees to not undergo with a deal. There was hypothesis surrounding a decrease again subject, however Detroit Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris denied any well being considerations for Flaherty.
“I can’t touch upon medical stuff with trades,” Harris stated in July. “You would need to ask the opposite groups. Jack is wholesome. If we didn’t commerce him, he was going to begin for us on Thursday.”
Flash ahead to free company and Flaherty stays one of many high beginning pitchers available on the market with only some weeks till spring coaching. In a dialog with Dodgers Nation’s Doug McKain, ESPN insider Buster Olney questions whether or not Flaherty’s medical information have stalled his free company course of.
“We all know the Yankees flunked him on a bodily final yr,” Olney stated. “They’re not doing that on a whim. … It might be one of many questions I might ask. I’m wondering what number of groups have regarded on the medical information. It {that a} issue? … So I’d be curious to see what groups are seeing in Jack Flaherty’s bodily.”
Flaherty isn’t the one notable identify remaining on the free agent market. Different pitchers who nonetheless should be signed are Max Scherzer, Clayton Kershaw, and Nick Pivetta, to call just a few. The lull this winter is reportedly due to the various commerce talks occurring between golf equipment.
“You go into the offseason with a hope of getting off the board rapidly and whatnot,” Flaherty stated on Foul Territory. “Now we’re sitting right here on January 23, with no rumblings, nothing actually occurring, simply ready. All the opposite high guys are gone and waited for Sasaki.
“It’s not regular in that I don’t know the place I’m going to go play or the place I’m going to spring coaching. All the things else is (regular) however when it comes to why, I want I had a extremely good reply for you. I don’t know. I want I had a greater reply aside from I don’t know what’s making this so tough.”
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