While the position-player crop is still ripe with quality talent, the starting pitching market has moved quickly this offseason.
David Price, Zack Greinke, Jordan Zimmermann, Johnny Cueto, Jeff Samardzija, John Lackey and J.A. Happ have all found new homes, while Hisashi Iwakuma and Marco Estrada both opted to re-sign.
The top remaining arm on the market had been Mike Leake, but he agreed to terms on a five-year, $80 million deal with the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday, according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.
That leaves Scott Kazmir, Wei-Yin Chen, Yovani Gallardo and Ian Kennedy as the top remaining arms on the free-agent market, quality arms but not quite front-line-caliber talents.
With that in mind, the time may be now for teams to shop their controllable and cost-effective pitching talent for a huge return.
The Atlanta Braves cashed in when they dealt Shelby Miller to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Ender Inciarte, Dansby Swanson and Aaron Blair.
So, who could be the next talented young arm to bring a significant trade package?
Ahead is a look at 10 pitchers MLB teams should consider selling in the suddenly weak pitching market.
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