KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It has been common in recent years for general managers to gripe about the quality of a class of free agents, about the lack of quality and depth.
But that will not be the case this fall, when there will be many, many high-end performers up for auction: Zack Greinke, David Price, Jordan Zimmermann, Johnny Cueto, Jason Heyward, Yoenis Cespedes, Chris Davis, Ben Zobrist and plenty of others.
There may be so many good free agents, however, that the volume skews the winter into a significant buyer's market, because there don't appear to be a lot of teams prepared to spend on massive contracts.