The Cardinals have had a busy offseason. Relative to most of the rest of the league, they’ve had an extremely busy offseason. That’s because outside of a handful of buyers and sellers, most teams in MLB have spent the winter sitting on their hands.
You know this already, but to recap: we’re about three weeks from pitchers and catchers reporting for Spring Training. Yet just one of MLBTR’s top ten free agents has signed a contract for 2018 (not counting Masahiro Tanaka, who signed an extension after the publication of that column).