Is it fun to be a free agent in the MLB?
Red Sox starter Lucas Giolito on the ups and downs of looking for a new contract in the Majors. (via Baseball Bar-B-Cast)
Video Transcript
Is it fun being a free agent?
Do you enjoy it?
Is it cool having people be like, You're great; we love everything about you.
Versus, say, like arbitration.
Where its like, You suck, we dont want to pay you anything.
I think you're going to get different answers based on who you are asking.
Like if you ask Dylan Sea if free agency is fun, I'm sure he'll say yes, Yeah, it was a blast.
I made over $200 million.
My free agencymy firstdidn't go like that at all.
I injured my leg the last two months of the season and ruined my numbers, So my value completely tanked going into free agency.
I was lucky enough to join the Red Sox and loved and cherished my time spent there.
Despite the fact that, as soon as I got there, I blew out my elbow.
So, that sucked.
But then last year I had a really, Really fun time; it was great, and we made the playoffs.
And then I got hurt again, and it was like the worst, worst, Worst thing that could have ever happened.
