Good morning, Birdland!
Major League Baseball teams sure do take their time before diving into free agency, don’t they? In other leagues, deals are getting announced almost the second the window opens. It happens in the NBA and the NFL. In professional soccer there will be deals agreed to even sooner than that. But in baseball, it’s a slow burn.
Of course, the proximity of the start of free agency to the end of the season complicates things. In baseball, it’s almost immediately after the World Series ends. Asking a team and player to make a commitment that quickly is a tall task.