A Chilly Offseason: DBL Trade Market Stalls as Salary Pressures Mount
The Diamond Baseball League offseason is underway, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the transaction wire. So far, the league-wide trade market has been eerily quiet, outisde of the 19,000 deals that the Pittsburgh Pirates have made—fewer deals, fewer rumors, and a distinct lack of movement among the usual churn of contenders and retooling squads. Behind the silence is a simple but uncomfortable truth: the salary structure in the DBL...