By Christina Kahrl
Baseball Prospectus

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Trying to make a big splash in free agency automatically risks making a big mistake. While this winter's shopping season has been especially strange because of the overall economy, it's interesting that most teams haven't made the mistake of offering too many long-term contracts for pitchers. This is a reflection of the increasing certainty that anything beyond three years can quickly go from million-dollar expense to millstone on the payroll. Nevertheless, spend some teams did, and regrets the ...

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