Predictions and updates for every top remaining MLB free agent

Glacial. Snail's pace. Tortoise-like. Pick your favorite metaphor for slow, and that will aptly describe the free-agent market of the 2020-21 MLB offseason.

Some numbers to paint that picture: The free-agent tracker at Baseball Reference lists three-year WAR totals for all the players who have signed with a new team, re-signed with their old team or accepted their old team's qualifying offer. Through Jan. 12, 158 players have signed worth a collective 78 three-year WAR. Meanwhile, the tracker lists another 253 players who have yet to sign. The aggregate WAR three-year WAR totals for those players is 480.

In other words, nearly all the good stuff remains on the market, available to the highest…