According to Alden Gonzalez at MLB.com, 21-year-old Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman will throw a side session for Major League teams tomorrow.
Chapman’s fastball has been clocked in the high 90s, and he is expected to receive a free-agent contract worth multiple millions of dollars.
That’s just the most likely outcome, though.
If this were the movies, Chapman would join the hapless and ragtag gang of sandlot players in his adopted homeland of Andorra, train them in a three-year long montage that lasts until the next World Baseball Classic, and lead them to an improbable victory over Cuba.
Smart money says he ends up on the Yanks.
Definitely going to the Yanks, with Lackey and Halladay going to rivals and the Mariners ending up with a lockdown 1-2.