I’ve spent much of this offseason wondering where all the signings have gone. You have too, probably.
So has Yahoo’s Jeff Passan, and earlier this week he wrote this 3,500-word article, which goes into a detailed examination of what’s gone wrong with baseball’s economic system, which he calls “broken,” and I can’t say I disagree.
There is a tremendous amount of information to unpack in this article, but if you want a summation, it’s probably best said by Passan here:
What’s clear is the free-agent impasse represents a reckoning long in the making – one that marries shifting power in labor relations, the emergence of analytics and cookie-cutter front offices, and the willingness of teams to treat competitiveness as an option, not a priority.