A look at the shallow third base market and what bargains - if any - are to be had as Billy Eppler prepares for his first go at the Winter Meetings as Angels' GM.
When Billy Eppler elected to pass on extending David Freese a qualifying offer, he did so armed with the knowledge that this year's third base market would be as scant as the bargain aisle at Wal-Mart come the end of Black Friday. His moves since then - acquiring Andrelton Simmons, Cliff Pennington and Geovany Soto - have made it apparent that the decision to part with Freese was likely made with an eye toward improving the defense at third. Aside his injury-plagued final year in St. Louis, Freese has statistically been a roughly…
