Players started filing for free agency today. Here's the list of potential and current free agents by team. And here's a list by position.

Also, Mike Berardino of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel writes about how ML ownership of the Expos puts a damper on the free agent market:

For the third straight winter, Major League Baseball is poised to control the free agent market thanks to its convenient stewardship of the Montreal/San Juan Expos.

Two years ago, it was the prospect of contraction and a dispersal draft that limited player movement on the open market. Contraction never happened, all those Expos stars stayed put and the agents were left to wail and gnash their teeth.

Last winter it was the budget fiasco in which Expos General Manager Omar Minaya didn't learn his 2003 payroll target until a few days before the winter meetings. Suddenly, the possibility of a Javier Vazquez, Vladimir Guerrero or Bartolo Colon being available through trade depressed a promising free-agent market.

Jim Thome was the only free agent who reached the $15 million-per-year tier. Proven commodities such as Cliff Floyd ($6.5 million a year) and Pudge Rodriguez (one-year, a heavily deferred $10 million) were left to fight for Thome's scraps.

Now Bud Selig is back with Round 3 of the Great Legalized Collusion Scam. Because the Expos still don't know how many games they will play away from Montreal next season, because Minaya is off interviewing for jobs from New York to Cincinnati to Seattle, the Expos remain in flux.