Let the fun begin.
Free agency has officially begun across Major League Baseball and players who are free agents are allowed to start signing deals. With the looming lockout coming in December, we should start to see moves popping up fairly quickly across the league. The prize of the offseason is going to be Tarik Skubal , to say the least. The two-time Cy Young Award winner is the clear-cut top free agent available right now and he should get paid well this winter. Right now, Yoshinobu Yamamoto has the largest contract by a pitcher in big league history, based on total value, at $325 million. Skubal is likely going to break that record.
But who is going to give him a historic deal? ESPN's Jeff Passan mentioned four teams as possible landing spots as the market opens up.
"The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets," Passan wrote. "There are bound to be others. The Chicago Cubs badly want Skubal.…