A few weeks ago, Peter Moylan took his family to New York. They strolled around a snowy Central Park and hit up Times Square. One day, they saw the Broadway show “School of Rock.”
The vacation was not explicitly set up as a distraction from baseball’s dull, downtempo offseason. Above all, it was simply vacation. Yet for Moylan, a 39-year-old free-agent relief pitcher, the trip coincided with the strangest, slowest winter of his career.
“I’ve never seen it like this,” he told The Star this week.
Less than two weeks before pitchers and catchers begin reporting to spring camps in Arizona and Florida, the Major League Baseball free-agent market is still mired in a heavy gridlock, with more than 100 players still available, including a list of premium targets.