As front offices increasingly rely on analytics and statistical models, big contracts for aging free agents are becoming less attractive.
On Baseball: Baseball And Union Point Fingers Over Free-agent Stalemate
TYLER KEPNER, New York Times: Baseball
Tue, 02/06/2018 - 8:47pm
Topics: baseball
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