With the GM meetings underway in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Major League Baseball offseason is beginning to take shape. General managers have begun to discuss — and in some rare cases, even complete — trades, while the offseason’s biggest event, the opening of free agency, is on the horizon.
Or rather, the traditional biggest event of offseason. The last few years, however, have seen free agency devolve into something of a snorefest, where players languish unemployed until late in the winter, and with many of them signing at less than their expected market value. If they even signed during the winter at all, that is.