There's a story. It begins with four shortstops raking in $957 million on MLB's 2022-23 free-agent market, with a footnote about how the position didn't do as well the prior winter. How it ends, nobody knows.
But it's not going so great early on.
The Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres, Minnesota Twins and Chicago Cubs set the bar high with the contracts they issued to Trea Turner (11 years, $300 million), Xander Bogaerts (11 years, $280 million), Carlos Correa (6 years, $200 million) and Dansby Swanson (7 years, $177 million). And per certain numbers, the bar was appropriately measured.