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Should MLB Explore Ways to Speed Up Free Agency?

With just days to go before pitchers and catchers report to spring training, Trevor Bauer and Marcell Ozuna finally found their free-agent homes. It's becoming increasingly common for top free agents to wait out the winter and sign big deals just before teams break off to Arizona and Florida. Given the financial parameters of every sport, it's not fair to compare MLB's offseason with the NBA's. But there is no denying the baseball offseason moves at a glacial pace. It's long. It's slow. It's a drag. (Especially when the parents—er, make that the MLB owners and players union—are fighting.