Paul Sullivan: Slow-moving market leads to winter blahs for baseball fans
by Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune
Jan 16, 2018
4 minutes
Mets ace Noah Syndergaard probably spoke for the rest of his peers Tuesday morning when he tweeted a message about the long offseason:
"Really missing that ballpark smell right about now."
With the holidays in the rearview mirror and the NFL playoffs nearing an end, mid-January is the time players and fans alike typically start counting down to spring training.
Pitchers and catchers will start reporting to Arizona and Florida in mid-February, and the road to October begins anew.
But this has been the winter of our discontent, with relatively few free-agent signings and only a handful of
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