Open Market Musings | FanGraphs Baseball

I don’t have an obvious conclusion to all of this rambling, aside from saying that I’m trying to focus more on the less-visible aspects of team construction these days. Sure, some teams just need a great hitter and have five places on the diamond where they can play them. But that’s not the case for most contenders, and it’s particularly not the case when you consider the players in their farm system, the age and contract status of their existing major league team, and plenty of other factors to boot. I’m not saying that I have all the answers, but I do think that treating free agency more like a qualitative puzzle and less like a quantitative equation is a worthy endeavor, and I’m going to try to do more of it.