We've been waiting to unveil our final offseason grades ... and waiting ... and waiting. We can wait no longer. Even though Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery and J.D. Martinez remain unsigned among the major free agents, and useful players such as Michael Lorenzen, Adam Duvall and Tommy Pham are still out there, it's the middle of spring training. The Dodgers and Padres open in Korea in less than two weeks. We have to roll this out and move on.
As a reminder, we're grading on a bit of a curve: We don't expect the Pirates or Guardians to spend like the Dodgers or Yankees. But we do expect something, some sign that a club owner cares even a tiny little bit about winning. Granted, it was a strange offseason, with a risky top end of the free agent market beyond Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto -- and the Dodgers landed both. Throw in concerns over the financial fallout from the Diamond Sports Group bankruptcy case, and the 12 teams contracted with Diamond for the regional sports networks had a convenient excuse not to increase payroll.
OK, let's get to it. You know the biggest winner ...