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Originally Posted by Parallex
Bah, there's no collusion. Here's the deal...
1: Luxery Tax got beefed up so the big dogs (spending wise) aren't as carefree with the dollars.
2: The Yankee's just traded for the huge contract of Giancarlo Stanton.
3: there are a few really good teams and a whole lot of "meh" teams and the "meh" teams aren't jazzed about spending big $$ on the middle class (2 WAR) free agents.
4: Next years free agent class... http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/free-agents/2019/... it's amazing. Some payroll is probably being held fallow to attract one of those guys.
So yeah, teams just don't have a lot of incentive to go hog wild this year. The usual big bidders are trying to reset their luxury tax and anticipating next years class. |
Add to that that a lot of the big market big spenders (Boston / New York / Chicago / LAD) have done a great job of drafting and building from within.
Those teams draft better, develop talent better, and now they no longer have as many holes that they need to fill by spending in free agency.
The teams that do have holes are smaller market teams that don't have the money to spend. Hence the market is at a stand still.