Fireworks. Well yes, the Major League market is offering sensational hits worth millions of dollars. The deal of the year was made by the Mets, who landed the star of the free agents, Juan Soto: unheard of, 15-year contract for 765 million dollars. After all, only in this way would they have been able to beat the city’s competition from the Yankees, who thus lost the fans’ idol after just one season. Which obviously won’t be anymore, given the Inter-Milan style transition, as well as the reliever Clay Holmes, who has opted for a three-year deal in the other half of the Apple, where he could even become a starter. The Yankees obviously consoled themselves quickly by acquiring one of the most coveted pitchers, Max Fried, convinced with 218 million in 8 years. The pitchers’ rumba was opened by the champion Dodgers with Blake Snell (182 million for 5 years), while Texas got back Nathan Eovaldi (75 million for 3 years) so now the other strong players remain: from Roki Sasaki to Corbin Burnes, from Jack Flaherty to Sean Manaea and Walker Buhler.
Leaving the pitching mound aside, the big blow (for now) was scored by the Giants, who guaranteed themselves the shortstop Willie Adames (182 million for 7 years). Toronto secured second baseman Andres Gimenez via trade, Pittsburgh secured first baseman Spencer Horwitz and Texas secured third baseman Jake Burger. But it’s only the beginning of December…
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Andrea Perari, 57 years old, was born in Perugia but has lived in Rimini since 1977. Married to Nicoletta and father of Filippo, he works as deputy head of service in the sports editorial office of the “Corriere Romagna”. He also collaborated with “Superbasket”, as a Rimini correspondent for matches and interviews. His career, however, was born from bat and run. In 1986, in fact, fresh from his scientific high school diploma, he took care of the weekly page of “Il Fo” in the then Trevi Rimini newspaper. In the same year he began his radio adventure, his true passion, with weekly broadcasts on baseball and above all with radio commentary of home and away games. In 1987 the “Gazzetta di Rimini” landed in Romagna and from being an external collaborator for baseball, Andrea ended up being hired in 1990 and becoming a professional journalist in May 1992. Since then he has always followed Romagna baseball firsthand for the Gazzetta ( until the bankruptcy of ’93) and for the “Corriere di Rimini” from 1993 to today. He collaborated with “Tutto Baseball”, “Baseball International”, “Baseball & Softball”, “Radio San Marino”, “Radio Rimini” and in 1999 with “Radio Icaro”, bringing back after many years, with his inseparable colleague and friend Carlo Ravegnani, live radio broadcasts of the Pirates on the occasion of the championship final played in Nettuno by Semenzato. Super (to say the least) passionate about American baseball, he loves spending holidays in the States or Canada and has already seen around twenty games live in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Boston, Miami, Tampa Bay, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Oakland. He has participated in the CDM Fantasy Baseball for years with excellent results and… dollars earned, and among his secret dreams is to commentate Major League matches on local or national TV.
