Earlier this week, CBS Sports published my annual ranking of Major League Baseball’s 50 best free agents. Today, I’m partaking in a different post-publication tradition: explaining why I omitted some notable players.
The dirty secret about listmaking is that, after a certain point, the names are largely interchangeable. There’s no inherent difference between being the No. 50 and No. 51 free agent — other than, you know, one goes in the article and the other does not. That is to say, the players included here were all considered for spots late on the list; I just found myself preferring other players for this or that reason.
What, precisely, was