Walt Jocketty: Steely-eyed Baseball Man
It might not be Cincinnati Reds GM Walk Jocketty to whom the credit accrues for the coup of the offseason: the Reds’ signing of left-handed Cuban wunderkind Aroldis Chapman.
But, you’ve gotta hand it to Jocketty, nonetheless: all winter long, Reds fans –as well as the rest of the baseball world– had been quietly wondering about the complete, total, and utter absence of transaction activity on the Reds’ part.
And now we know why. So basically, that weird sense of calm Jocketty had been exuding now makes sense: why get hot-and-bothered about the free agent market –populated mainly by aging stars with outsized asking prices or by no-name journeymen– when you can sign a left-handed kid with a triple-digit fastball?
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