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David Lennon: Bryce Harper, Manny Machado headline MLB's Unemployed All-Star Team

So here we go again. A year after baseball's nuclear winter for free agents, with its glacial pace of signings, the sport is now coming to the dangerous realization that the 2018 market freeze wasn't an isolated incident. It's a full-blown industry trend, and one that threatens to further chill the already frosty relations between the owners and the Players Association. Lo and behold, for the second consecutive year, we present the All-Unemployed Team:

Catcher: Martin Maldonado

Somebody was going to be left out in the catcher derby this offseason, and Maldonado _ a defensive standout with a .220 career batting average _ is that somebody. Despite his light plate production, he's great at gunning down runners, and a big asset for a pitching staff.

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