Major League Baseball’s lockout has officially been in place for nearly a week, leaving the baseball world in a state of dystopia defined by silhouetted headshots and exacerbated by utter silence on the free-agent market. A guarantee: You’ll be waiting for the Philadelphia Phillies to sign your preferred power hitter, defensive whiz or lockdown reliever for an indefinite amount of time.
Let’s make things harder on ourselves, shall we?
As time inched toward 11:59 p.m. ET on Dec. 1, many of the biggest fish in this offseason’s free agent class inked deals with clubs looking to beat the clock.