Six years of bad baseball in Anaheim and when I say bad baseball I'm Talking about the players around Shohei Otani. A player of his talent and arguably one of the best players beside him in Mike Trout and neither of them in 6 years saw the playoffs. Now Otani is signed with the Dodgers. Good for him. But I hope he's ready for the let downs when they win 100 games and don't get to the Worlds Series or lose the series. Can you imagine a man who can pitch a full game and turn around and hit the game winning homerun? 

With the understanding he wanted to play in the American League with the DH and now the entire league has the DH. 

What bothers me is sports can be like political polling. Always some rumor. Things can go one way or the other. At one time I'd seen Otani coming to the Cubs because they already have another Asian player. He would fit right in. And last week some fool report he was going to Toronto. That made no sense to me because he wanted to stay on the west coast. 

The Cubs sign Craig Counsell and then what? Does that mean the division is in our laps automatically? There may have been a reason Milwaukee let go of Counsell. Sure he could win some division Championships. Make the post season and be one of the first teams out. As Harry Caray would say, "Holy Cow." the Cubs have so many holes to fill and so far none of the other division teams are making a splash so the Cubs might have a chance. 

This is the same case in all sports  whichever city you're in: what is my team going to do to get better? You know they have holes to fill but you watch the good free agents come off the board or you sign a guy for a year and he has a career year but walks in the off season (Cody Bellinger). Or an annoying habit baseball has which is to trade players for a guy who is going to walk at the end of the season. G©