Rick Hahn, the current General Manager of the Chicago White Sox, once told me that the market for minor league free agents every winter is as competitive as major league free agency, if not even more so. Realistically, these players are ones who have spent 6-7 years playing in the minor leagues without making the 40-man roster and you generally aren’t going to find anyone that projects to make much big league impact. But there is always that ‘maybe’; perhaps a new set of coaches and analysts will spot a flaw that a player’s previous org missed, suggest an adjustment he hadn’t heard before, expose him to new analytical information, place him in a new role, or even just figure out how to keep him healthy.
Milwaukee Brewers sign Alexander Palma, Luis Castro to minor league contracts
