Ah … a Lukewarm Stove on a Saturday morning. Now we’re getting somewhere.
At this point in the offseason, there’s usually enough legitimate rumors to go around for just under one Lukewarm Stove a day – maybe we’ll get 4-5 in a given week. But in the middle of the frenzy – which will come – we have to start drafting up our next post soon after the last one was published. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re getting mighty close.
The latest …
One veteran market reader today predicted a larger-than-usual number of non-tenders at the end of this month. With free agent volume so high, adding more players to the market could depress prices even more and drive players to accept what in the past would've been subpar deals.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) November 16, 2018