The final game of the 2019 regular season is barely a month away. The World Series starts three weeks later. It ends early enough that players will be able to file for free agency in October. And thus will begin another baseball winter -- one primed to drag on deep into the spring, just like the last two.
Major League Baseball's offseason shows no signs of changing, at least not according to more than a dozen executives and agents with whom ESPN spoke to forecast the offseason ahead. Get used to the hot stove spitting out BTUs like it's out of gas and the pace of free-agent action mimicking a Yankees-Red Sox game, they said.