LAS VEGAS -- True free agency in baseball begins today at 5 p.m. ET, when the five-day period during which teams have exclusive negotiating rights with their pending free agents expires.
There is no better time to answer the most pertinent matters of a hot stove season beginning anew. From the hottest names on the market to trade candidates to bigger-picture items, here are answers to 20 questions about the current landscape, culled from dozens of sources at the GM meetings.
Okay, first of all -- who is signing Aaron Judge?
The New York Yankees remain the favorite, not only because they wield the sport's greatest financial might and are the only team Judge has known in his decade-long professional career, but also because the rest of the free agent class doesn't align nearly as clearly with the organization's professed priorities.
