In case you hadn’t noticed, the free agents who have signed so far this off season had higher prices than expected. What is the implication for the Astros and other teams? At least right now they probably will face higher price tags than they expected to acquire players.
One way to gauge actual prices versus expected prices is to compare the signing to the Fangraphs crowd sourcing estimates. Sure, it’s not perfect, but the crowd source estimates have been reasonable estimates of likely contracts in the past. And contract prices have been running about 20% higher than crowd source estimates.