It's taken longer than he probably wanted, but David Meter is poised like a vulture, engaging the Brewers - whose bullpen has been decimated by the shoulder injury to Jeremy Jeffress and now likely Tommy John surgery for Corey Knebel – with his high-priced free agent closer Craig Kimbrel. Desperate as they are (Jeffress was 8-1 with 89K in 76.2 IP last year while Knebel had 14 K in 10 IP in 9 postseason appearances last year) the Brewers aren't likely to offer Kimbrel anywhere near the six year deal he'd originally been seeking, but there have been no reports of him getting any offers at all to this point ... According to team sources, Scott Boras earlier had told the Yankees he had numerous offers for Gio Gonzalez while proposing a conditional "free look" spring training offer to them in which the lefty would get $12 million if he made the team. Given the "free look" would essentially two weeks, the Yankees declined. According to a player source, when Gonzalez, who had had zero offers all winter, heard the Yankees were interested in him, he called Boras and told him to make a deal – now – agreeing to one year/$3 million plus incentives ... Now that Mariano Rivera has shown 100% Hall-of-Fame plurality can be done, can't imagine Ichiro Suzuki won't do the same when he becomes eligible in 2025. Greatest contact hitter of his time, and maybe all-time.