Paul Sullivan: It's nice to see baseball's hot stove warm back up with major free-agent deals
SAN DIEGO - The three biggest free agents - Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg and Anthony Rendon - signed megadeals during the winter meetings this week, a significant change from the last couple of years, when Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, Yu Darvish, Jake Arrieta and others went all the way to February or March before finding a deal.
That change affected the rest of the market, as teams quickly pivoted to other options.
It's a breath of fresh air for baseball's hot stove, which was in danger of being extinguished by the slow-moving market.
"It's a bit of reaction from last year," Cubs President Theo Epstein said.
Last year
