“Every team can afford [a] $300m contract”
— Braves reliever, Peter Moylan
For the second consecutive season, there has been much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth over the free-agent market in baseball. With both Bryce Harper and Manny Machado remain unemployed, both men no doubt living out of their vans, down by the river. Not so long ago, some executives were predicting Harper would command “$35 million a year, maybe closer to the high 30s.” Yet there are less than four weeks until pitchers and catchers report and no word of anything for Harper matching the $300 million, 10 year offer he rejected from the Nats.