Happy Spring Training Eve, everyone. Hopefully, in a few days when Pitcher and Catchers report, it will bring to a close The Most Boring Offseason Ever. In many ways, this offseason has been sponsored by the Astros of old. The model of tearing down to rebuild-from-scratch is no longer a rarity, and the Astros' methods of evaluating talent and valuing Free Agents may have been instrumental in a number of top free-agents remaining unsigned. People are whispering collusion, but it seems more likely that teams are getting smarter about who they sign, and for what price. I mean a team could find themselves with one of Albert Pujols, Eric Hosmer or Chris Davis standing at first base, or have an outfield of Jacoby Ellsbury, Jason Heyward and Alex Gordon backing up a middle infield of Dustin Pedroia and Troy Tulowitzky.