Many veteran free agents remain unsigned and, apparently, unwanted. In the cases of Dexter Fowler, Ian Desmond and Yovani Gallardo, the lack of excitement for their services is tied to the qualifying offers they were given, as teams are reluctant to pay them a market-rate salary and lose a draft pick. In other cases, I think the lack of interest is related to the aging curve in post-steroids baseball. As Dave Cameron of FanGraphs pointed out, in 2015 players 30 and older combined for 266 WAR; in 1998, that figure was 470 WAR.
Free agents worth the gamble
