With no negotiations scheduled for this weekend between Major League Baseball and the Players Association, St. Pete Nine’s Steve Carney dies into other aspects that could come about because of the lockout. Today we look at some of the free agents that decided not to sign before the lockout began and how some could find themseles making a lot more by waiting than if they decided to sign deals before eerything came to a halt.
Baseball Held Hostage is a special series of Under The Orange Roof, with new episodes daily until the end of the lockout.
Steve Carney is the founder and publisher of St. Pete Nine. One of the people most associated with baseball coverage in Tampa Bay, he spent 13 seasons covering the Rays for flagship radio station WDAE, first as producer of Rays Radio broadcasts, then as beat reporter beginning in 2011. He likes new analytics and aged bourbon, and is the owner of one of the ugliest knuckleballs ever witnessed by baseball scouts.
