Does Anybody Want Cody Bellinger, Blake Snell or Jordan Montgomery?

A bunch of top free agents are still looking for jobs with less than a month to go until spring training. Here's where things stand.

Area man who won Cy Young finds himself jobless months later. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

Hi friends-

As a reminder, our book club for January is Why we Love Baseball, by Joe Posnanski. I may have accidentally said The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski in a chat, so kindly ignore that! (Joe has written so many great baseball books that this slip-up may be my subconscious trying to get you to read them all).

But for clarity: We are going with Joe’s most recent book, which is excellent and will warm your cold, black heart during this icy month. Paid subscribers will get a chat in the Substack app about the book on Sunday, Feb. 4 and a Zoom with me and Joe on Monday, Feb. 5. Upgrade to paid now if you want to join us! <3

Today is a great day, because MLB teams just announced their spring training reporting dates! Here they are:

I can’t say I’d be *thrilled* to be a Dodger scrolling through social media right now and realizing my winter break is a week shorter than 28 other teams, but this is almost certainly because the Dodgers and Padres open the MLB regular season in Korea a week before MLB games begin here in the U.S.—so it can’t come as a huge surprise.

Most teams will report on Valentine’s Day, and we’re exactly four weeks away from that blessed event. This means that with every hour that passes, we inch closer to the end of Scott Boras’ annual multi-front game of chicken with the entire industry.

“People call me all the time and say, ‘Man, your players aren't signed yet,’” Boras told Jerry Crasnick in an ESPN article from Jan. 13, 2013, entitled “Scott Boras Clients Still Seeking Jobs.” “Well, it doesn’t really matter what time dinner is when you’re the steak.”

That January, Boras was representing the top three free agents left on the market in Michael Bourn, Rafael Soriano and Kyle Lohse.

This year, Boras is representing….