Baseball’s offseason continues to trudge along, slowly and painfully. As Ben Diamond explored yesterday for Baseball Prospectus, this has been the cheapest start to free agency since 2009 as just four players having signed deals for $10+ mil AAV so far. The relative inertia isn’t only affecting the open market, either; trades and waiver claims are also at lower levels than they have been in previous seasons.
Like most of the other teams across the league, our own Milwaukee Brewers have yet to accomplish much this winter. Though the owner alluded to a the possibility of an active winter prior to the end of the regular season, so far his team’s biggest outlay has been the $15.