Well, that was an offseason, even with the 99-day lockout smack in the middle.
The Atlanta Braves won their first World Series since 1995 back in November, and then there was a spending frenzy, in which one team dropped more than $560 million, the Tigers wrote checks for more than $200 million and the Mets, well, they somehow ended up with Max Scherzer for something like $43 million a year. (That’s more than two teams’ entire payrolls, and just under what the A’s are spending out in Oakland.)
And then in March, with the lockout ended, things got even weirder.