MESA, Ariz. – If Cubs first baseman Garrett Cooper had known how this offseason was going to play out, he would have approached it differently.
“If it was up to me, I probably would have taken the first offer that I got,” he said. “But you live and learn. And you learn your first time through free agency was definitely a weird one.”
The offseason was slow and late-moving. With less than three weeks left in spring training, there are still unsigned high-profile free agents, which has backed up the market as a whole.
The finger-pointing has already begun.