Free Free Agency Analysis - 2017 Edition
You get what you pay for.
This is early, but I found it to be interesting. I don't know if we've ever had this much talent in one week of Free Agency.
Top 5 Starting Pitchers from 2017 (so far) have cost nearly $80m. The top 5 from all of Free Agency last year cost under $49m.
Clayton Kershaw $19,000,000 ---- Jake Arrieta $14,000,000
Max Scherzer $18,750,000 ---- Francisco Liriano $10,120,000
Chris Sale $16,200,000 ----- Carlos Carrasco $9,250,000
Corey Kluber $16,000,000 ----- Johnny Cueto $8,000,000
Yu Darvish $10,000,000 ----- Marco Estrada $7,250,000
The next 6 starting pitchers by salary amount from 2016 were:
Hisashi Iwakuma $5,100,000
Patrick Corbin $5,000,000
Mike Leake $4,500,000
Michael Pineda $4,250,000
JA Happ $4,200,000
Hector Santiago $3,750,000