Waiting until the end to sign a free agent could pay dividends for a team such as the Tampa Bay Rays as players choose to take the offer at hand and run with it when time is running out. The two most prominent, free agent power hitters are now dust in the wind.
The list of right-handed bats remaining in the free agent market has been reduced by two as Chris Carter and Mike Napoli have signed deals, but neither is with the Rays.
Carter has agreed to a one-year, $3.