With less than a month to go before Spring training starts, no team has signed baseball's youngest and best free agents.
Have owners finally come to their senses? Do they at last know that one player on a 10-year contract may not be worth 300-400 million dollars?
The thing is, until Harper and/or Machado are signed, other, lesser named free agents aren't being signed either. The big names always determine free agent price each year. Nobody wants to pay too much.
The Twins have discovered over the last 5 years that one big contract and several decent sized pitching contracts really don't seem to make a difference.
Fans don't seem to care what their team does, and if you lose, it's better not to have such a big budget.
Owners are smarter. Fans are smarter.
And players may have discovered the days of mega-millions are no longer that available.
Baseball is changing. Viewing habits are changing. And players are not worth as much as they used to be.
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