I’m posting this to recommend a really good piece by Jeff Passan of Yahoo on the slow (so far) free agent market. Passan challenges the conventional wisdom that the market is waiting on the Mike Stanton and Shohei Ohtani shoes to drop. It’s best if you read the article, but to summarize, Passan — or, really, the execs he spoke to — sees several reasons:
- GMs think waiting out the market leads to better deals for teams. (I don’t really buy this one except as it applies to third-tier players like David Freese and Matt Joyce the year they signed with the Pirates.