Tom Verducci on the reaction in the lobby on the Brandon Lyon deal:
Two different GMs were aghast to hear the Astros are paying $15 million over three years to reliever Brandon Lyon. Both of them had to have the numbers repeated to them twice, thinking surely they had misheard what will be one of the worst contracts of the winter.
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
