Craig Kimbrel finally gets a job and joins Cubs

It took all the way until June 5, but eventually, finally, one of the few best baseball teams to land a job. By Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, Craig Kimbrel has reached an agreement to join the Chicago Cubs, leaders in the center of the NL, under a multi-year contract:

Kimbrel, a seven-time top team player, leads all major league pitchers with 332 and is closest to the Red Sox last season in their World Series. Since the Red Sox made him a relatively derisory offer of one year, amounting to $ 18 million, last November, he remained free. Kimbrel, in search of a long-term security and a more lucrative salary, is unemployed, in part because the Red Sox, by presenting the qualification offer, have made sure that any team that signed Kimbrel before June 3 should have made a compensatory choice in Boston. . The other more important and decisive condition governing Kimbrel's continued unemployment is that modern baseball franchises are run as profitable businesses, instead of teams competing for supremacy in a functional league. No part of it had nothing to do with his ability to launch.

To everyone's absolute surprise, Kimbrel's job prospects have improved significantly after the June 2 deadline. In addition to the Cubs, Kimbrel has would have talks with the Dodgers and the Mets, "among other teams". The Cubs will immediately fuck Kimbrel and the rest of their overcrowded enclosure will collapse, starting with Pedro Strop, who came back from injury yesterday and shares his lead among the Cubs with only five saves on the season. The other good news for Kimbrel, in addition to landing a job for which he is ridiculously qualified, is that the current CBA ensures that he can never again be subject to a qualification offer in his career. Huzzah.