While the biggest names on the free-agent market—Josh Hamilton and Zack Greinke—remain in play, teams have not waited for those two to find new homes before making moves of their own.
The action on the free-agent market might not be coming as fast and furiously as some would like, but teams are slowly and steadily adding key pieces as they build their rosters towards World Series runs in 2013.
Let’s check in on the biggest names to come off of the open market thus far and see how the teams that signed them did with the deals they handed out.