The freeze in baseball spending has seen teams across the continent purge as many big-dollar, small-dollar, and any-dollar-feasible commitments as they can in the last two months. As the rules for the 2021 MLB season remain nebulous and the question of ‘will paying fans be allowed to attend [X] number of games’ remains unanswered, it seems owners across the game are doing everything they can to kick every would-be financial liability down the road.
There’s certainly the chance that, with more clarity on how the season will look, teams will revisit spending in another two months. As the COVID vaccines slowly implement themselves into our society, we’ll have a better grasp on how society itself will operate in February and March than we do right now, to be sure, and maybe we’ll see at that juncture more willingness from baseball teams to pay baseball players to win baseball games.