Jon Heyman reports Russell Martin will turn down his qualifying offer in a confusing sentence with so many commas and em dashes that he might as well write a Pittsburgh Pirate blog with a name cribbed from a rhetorical Simon and Garfunkel question:
Russell Martin, extremely popular on the free-agent market after his big year, will officially reject the Pirates qualifying offer for 2015 by Monday’s deadline — no surprise considering word is, he’s already got four-year possibilities and may even get five.
I know that we’re all putting on our strong, “Maybe the Pirates will bring Russell Martin Back” faces, but honestly, I told Mike Grau on his radio show yesterday that I thought the Pirates chances of bringing him back were more or less 0% and I’m going to stick with that. He’s one of baseball’s best catchers in a free agent market in which he’s basically the only catcher available. He’s gonna get paid.
