Free-agent center fielder Austin Jackson is garnering interest from at least three major league clubs.

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Jackson Getting Interest in Free Agency

Thursday, Jan. 21

ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick reported the Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels are interested in the athletic Jackson, who batted .267 in 2015.

For a week, play-by-play broadcaster Josh Maurer struggled to control his nerves. He hardly ate or slept. His body only wanted to focus on the job, which he kept reminding himself was basically the same thing he had done hundreds, if not thousands, of times before. All he had to do was call the games.

It took far longer than anyone expected—nearly three months—but some of baseball's top free agents finally found homes over the past week. Some, like Chris Davis, returned to familiar territory, while others, like Wei-Yin Chen, Ian Kennedy and Justin Upton, will need time to learn the lay of the land in new cities.

Yet even with all that movement, there's still plenty of talent available at nearly every position, whether it be via free agency or trade.

There was a time, not all that long ago, when the best team in baseball wouldn't commit anything more than a three-year contract to a starting pitcher. The Toronto Blue Jays lost some pitchers in the early 1990s, but they won back-to-back World Series.

Imagine trying to do that now.

We occasionally like to think they do, but true Major League Baseball superteams don't actually exist in nature. Put a supposed superteam under a microscope, and you'll find the imperfections.

But in these days when we can almost taste the 2016 MLB season, we can at least imagine what a superteam would look like.

Good things come to those who wait. When it comes to cashing in their trade assets, that should be the New York Yankees' guiding dogma.

After dealing Craig Kimbrel to the Boston Red Sox in November, the San Diego Padres appear to have found their new closer.

In Chicago, Starlin Castro was a victim of circumstance. Now, after being traded to the New York Yankees, the shortstop-turned-second baseman should be its beneficiary.

One month before pitchers and catchers report, we've still got several things to settle…

1. What's Up with Cespedes?

While Justin Upton has surfaced, it seems Yoenis Cespedes is stuck somewhere on Mars with Matt Damon. Golfing, maybe.

What gives?

Not sure if you heard, St. Louis Cardinals fans, but Jason Heyward skipped town. Worse still, he's a Chicago Cub now.

OK, sorry. Our purpose here isn't to rub salt in that particular, still-festering wound. Quite the contrary, actually—we come bearing glad tidings for the Redbird faithful.