With pitchers and catchers supposedly reporting to camp in a few weeks, there are still a great many unanswered questions that need to be settled: How many playoff teams will there be? Will the National League use the designated hitter again? Also, when will the season, you know, actually start?
Perhaps a larger unresolved issue is the stagnant pace of the free agency market. As of this writing, 35 of Sports Illustrated's top 50 free agents remain unsigned, including seven of the top 10. For teams in need of improvement, there’s plenty of reinforcements still available at every position—so much so that a lineup composed of the game’s currently unemployed players would stack up quite favorably to any shortlist of World Series contenders.