CC Sabathia, Derek Lowe and Ben Sheets topped the list of what was already one of the deepest classes of free agent starting pitchers in recent memory. You can go ahead and add A.J. Burnett to that list now.

As reported Tuesday evening by MLB.com’s Jordan Bastian, Burnett decided to opt out of the final two years of his contract to test the free agent market. Burnett was owed a total of $24 million over the last two years of the deal, but figured he could probably command more money on the market given his relatively young age of 31. Read more »