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Whicker: Ex-Jays outfielder Gose now an unlikely Royals reliever

“You get to a certain age and you accept how time speeds up.

We can handle that Keith Tkachuk’s sons won hockey gold medals for the U.S., that Tiger Woods has a son who’s in college, that Carlos Boozer’s kid might be the NBA Rookie of the Year. So it was not startling to see that Anthony Gose was in a Kansas City Royals’ boxscore the other day, which is not unlike being in a witness protection program. How nice to see that the former major league outfielder has a son who has made it. Oops, hold on. That’s actually the old man, still sitting in a hot bullpen for a cold franchise.”

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Whicker: Dealing Crow-Armstrong to Cubs may go down as Mets’ biggest trade blunder

“Some trades, and their consequences, don’t just grow. They metastasize. Thirteen months after the Mets drafted a L.A. high school outfielder named Pete Crow-Armstrong in the first round, they succumbed to a particularly bad strain of pennant fever. They lusted for Javier Baez, the many-faceted star of the Cubs in the late 2010s.

Except this was 2021. The Mets were leading the National League East by four games at the time, but interim general manager Zack Scott, supported by club president Sandy Alderson, wanted more.

So Scott called the Cubs, who had Tom Myers, a scout who had done a lot of pre-draft work on Crow-Armstrong. Myers told the Cubs who to ask for, and Baez went east and Crow-Armstrong went to the midwest. If you’ve noticed, his journey has taken a sharp turn northward.”

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