Read: Locking Up Your Young Talent
In a must-read report for MLB.com, Tom Singer looks at the lack of quality, young 
free-agents, and explains how a change in how teams treat their young stars is ifluencing the market.
…this is the single-biggest worry i have for the Mets, in that they may have misread the market a few years ago, betting on the international signings instead, while signing big-time free agents and sacrificng top draft picks, then not spending over slot to make up for thier late-round selections… and, as a result, as teams began locking up their young players, like the Rays and Evan Longoria or the Brewers and Ryan Braun, the Mets ended up having little to show in their farm system and fewer and fewer impactful options to fill in with on the free agent market… it is this reason, more than any, that explains the situation the Mets are in today…
