RONALD BLUM (AP Baseball Writer),The Associated Press•February 10, 2019

Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, Craig Kimbrel and Dallas Keuchel won't be around when the bat and ball bags are opened at spring training throughout Florida and Arizona this week.
They are among the dozens of free agents still looking for jobs, joined by Mike Moustakas, Marwin Gonzalez, Carlos Gonzalez and Gio Gonzalez.
For the second straight winter, camps are opening with many rosters in exceptional flux.
''The market will sort itself out,'' St. Louis Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. said at last week's owners' meetings. ''There is a long time between the end of the season and spring training, and there's maybe not so much a sense of urgency on whichever side it happens to be.''

A drawn-out negotiating process means clubs have lost time in marketing new acquisitions, which seems especially significant to a sport coming off three straight years of attendance declines. Average attendance dropped below 30,000 last year for the first time since 2003.