We are just over one full business day into the free agent signing period, and though no domino has yet to fall, MLB Trade Rumors is predicting the New York Yankees as the early favorites to sign Jason Heyward, Ben Zobrist and Chris Young.
It’s important to note that predicting free agent signings is based on sheer speculation, even if it’s from the guys over at MLB Trade Rumors, so take this all tentatively and know that it’s probably way to early to shape the open market. For example, MLBTR predicted the Yankees to sign Max Scherzer, Hanley Ramirez and Jason Grilli in 2014, none of which obviously happened, but they did successfully predict Jon Lester to the Cubs, so you never know.