Bruce Sherman, Miami Marlins principal owner, sought to convey all-is-well calm as baseball’s lockout-delayed spring training began a couple of weeks ago. CEO and face-of-the-franchise Derek Jeter had just abruptly and unexpected left in a mutual parting, and Sherman said exactly what he knew fans wanted to hear in the midst of free agency:
“We have money, and we will spend it.”
Now, with Opening Day a week away (April 8 at San Francisco), we look around and can say of Sherman’s boast:
