When star players head into free agency seeking multi-year contracts and they don’t get those kinds of offers to their liking, those players sometimes accept one year, pillow contracts to head into free agency the next season. The Milwaukee Brewers have signed a few of these contracts.
Mike Moustakas is a recent example of this. He sought a multi year contract after 2017 and after 2018, and didn’t get offers to his liking and had to accept one year deals to re-enter free agency the next year.
We’re 22 days away from Opening Day and Dallas Keuchel still doesn’t have a team.