Thomas Boswell on Baseball Free Agent Economics
Published 1/14/2009 by Thomas Boswell at Wash Post MLB
A bumper crop of top free agents, led by all-everything outfielder Manny RamÃrez, is still sitting unsigned, raising serious questions about whether any teams will offer the kind of big-money contracts that have become commonplace in baseball.
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