On Friday at The Hardball Times I looked at MLB free agency since 2016, both in aggregate and for specific kinds of players, because details matter:
We see confirmation that in 2017, most groups waited longer to sign than in 2016. But based on the median salary of the group, most groups received the same amount of money or more. They didn’t give up much. In 2018, more groups signed earlier than they did in 2017. Of these groups, however, most received the same amount of money or more.