It's dropped off completely for almost all teams it seems. There's still some BIG names out there too in Shields and Scherzer, and a couple closers with barely a whisper about any of them in the rumors.
Both are basically the opposite of what I'm looking for right now (although I'd take them at low cost obviously). I am looking for a young goalie and young defensemen (don't have to be established yet)
Pillar should be able to outperform Ichiro, although the difference is probably minimal. If paying Ichiro one or two million provides more than that in additional revenue because of the name factor, then go for it. Otherwise, there's really no point.
Just copy and paste from Excel, or whatever you use.
(You can also go to advanced mode here and manually do a table, or program it in html and then copy and paste it)
They say 5/90ish in that article, but from what I remember, the price on Shields is 5/110. Maybe that'll come down, but I don't blame teams for balking at it.
I think in general, sinkerballers are always going to have low swinging strike rates because frankly, the pitch is designed to be hit. That doesn't mean they can't be highly successful. Henderson Alvarez just posted a 3.57 xFIP season (2.65 era), and Derek Lowe had hugely valuable seasons as a starter for years. I think Sanchez has the secondary stuff to completely dominate though, if he can finish harnessing it.