I have no evidence for this whatsoever but I think they were really stunned by how yesterday went and it's going to take a little while for them to readjust.
I'd like to see how far some of these teams can hit a homer off Covey for to be honest. Lets just feed him about 20 games worth of innings and find out.
I just got back and was reading through the comments. My initial thoughts are is that Rick and company are bad at reading the intentions of the players they are trying to sign. Really bad at it.