MLB: Top Free Agent Signings That Don’t Fit With Their New Teams

Every MLB offseason, there are a handful of free agent signings that don’t make a whole lot of sense. 

Sometimes, it can be difficult for fans to understand the mindset of a team’s front office. On several occasions, even analysts fail to comprehend the rationale behind a team’s decision making. This offseason, we witnessed more than a few head-scratcher free agent signings across the league. Some of these were big-money deals, and others just seemed unnecessary.

What makes a free agent a poor fit with a team? Often it simply comes down to the team not needing that player, but signing him regardless. Sometimes they already have someone to fill that position, or maybe that specific player doesn’t quite match up with the team’s profile. The point being, there are some scenarios where signing an objectively “good” player doesn’t appear it will improve a team.

In all fairness, the people in charge of these signings are professionals. It is their job to make smart baseball decisions, and put a winning team on the field. Every now and then, it’s their job to throw everyone off. If every move a team made was predicable, it would be hard for them to gain any sort of advantage. Keeping that in mind, we must still question things that don’t make sense. Spring Training is now in full swing, and a few of these guys don’t look right in their new uniforms. Now let’s take a look at the free agent signings that don’t seem to fit with their new teams.