“Why the incredible Class of 2018 will change MLB as we know it,” read a Yahoo story from December 2015. But now, the winter of 2018-19 has come and almost gone — spring training camps open in a little more than three weeks — and the free agent market is as cold as the January weather. Baseball’s union, faced with another slow-moving free agent market, increasingly depicts the trend of teams being “unwilling to compete” as damaging the sport. Two other traditional top-five payroll-spenders, the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants, have all but sat out this winter’s free agent market, spending less than $16 million combined. And at the bottom sit nine teams that are at least $100 million below the 2019 luxury tax threshold.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2019 20:47 UTC