ANALYSIS/OPINION
Baseball’s hot stove might as well be a deep freezer this offseason.
Based on CBS Sports’ ranking, eight of the top 10 and 12 of the top 20 free agents remain unsigned with spring training a few weeks away. The word “collusion” has reared its ugly head as players who expected to break the bank — J.D. Martinez, Yu Darvish and Eric Hosmer among them — wait impatiently by the phone.
The calls will come, eventually, though for a variety of reasons, the dollars could be fewer than expected.
Many of the top free agents are older with worrisome injury histories.