AZ Snake Pit · Jan 16, 2024
SnakePit Round Table: Waiting in a Winter Wonderland
Photo by Arrush Chopra/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesRight now, a lot of top free agents are still unsigned, less than a month before pitchers and catchers report. Why so slow?
James: I think the pitchers were mostly waiting for the Japanese market to finish doing business. Snell and Montgomery can now set their prices accordingly. As for guys like Chapman, they too needed to wait for the bigger contracts to land before their market would open up. Though, in the case of Chapman, this is a bad market year for him and he likely would have been better off taking an extension with Atlanta when it was available.