MLB Teams Are In A Spending Freeze — And It's About To Get Colder (www.espn.com)
At the contractual rate of roughly $1.1 million per start,
is in line to make $20 million by August, if baseball has a full season at full pay this year. So it says a lot about how slow this offseason has been that two-and-half months into this winter, there has been exactly one free-agent signing of an MLB veteran worth $20 million.