Major League Baseball’s Free-Agency Stalemate Continues
Cody Bellinger (24) of the Chicago Cubs follows his RBI sacrifice fly in the seventh inning against the Colorado Rockies at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, on Sept. 23, 2023. Quinn Harris/Getty Images
Standout left-handed starting pitchers Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery, slugging center fielder-first baseman Cody Bellinger, and slick third baseman Matt Chapman are proven big-league talents who ordinarily would be in spring-training camps in either Arizona or Florida right now.
They’re not. And there’s really no telling when they might be.
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Dan Wood is a community sports reporter based in Orange County, California. He has covered sports professionally for some 43 years, spending nearly three decades in the newspaper industry and 14 years in radio. He is an avid music fan, with a strong lean toward country and classic rock.
