MLB Free Agency Top 50: Skubal Leads a Chaotic Winter Class

Buckle up, friends. A very odd free-agent season is coming. With the sport hurtling toward an elongated work stoppage and labor battle, the upcoming offseason projects to be disjointed, chaotic and boring all at the same time. When the existing collective bargaining agreement expires on Dec. 1, MLB will lurch into a transactional dead period. As team owners and the MLBPA bargain over the game’s future, general managers, agents and players will, for the most part, be twiddling their thumbs and waiting around. That oncoming storm should precipitate a flurry of moves in the days and hours leading up to…