The baseball off-season is still off, with big free agents waiting to sign less than a month before spring training begins.
Many free agents on lower tiers are waiting on the big guys to sign. It’s a vicious cycle for players, and it wasn’t just a one-off last year in the first year of the collective bargaining agreement.
The owners have leverage and are taking advantage of it.
They didn’t get rich enough to buy an MLB team through dumb luck. Or maybe not entirely through dumb luck.
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