Caveat Emptor

Any semblance of sanity in major league baseball has left the room between now and Thursday, the duration of this year’s winter meetings in San Diego. The Rangers want to sign thirty-four year old Jacob deGrom to a five-year, $185 million deal? MLB.com is all a-giggle. Forget that deGrom has only started twenty-six games over the last two seasons or that he’s eighteen games short of hitting 100 career wins. The Rangers are serious, man. Ditto the news on Aaron Judge, that he’s likely to land a nine-year gig, which would make him forty when the deal ended. And where will Judge play in his twilight years, you may ask? It doesn’t matter. [Fill in team’s name here] are serious, man. Lucky for us White Sox fans our team doesn’t go in for this kind of nuttiness. No, we prefer to go searching for Rembrandts at the thrift store. The next Jermaine Dye is just around the corner, opposite Johnny Cueto and…