The New Year serves as a symbolic halfway point of the offseason. We’re two months removed from the final game of last year’s Fall Classic and about seven weeks from the first Spring Training contests of 2024. There’s still plenty of offseason to go — only 22 of MLBTR’s Top 50 free agents are off the board — but we’ll take this opportunity to check in on which teams have been the most active thus far.
Using our Contract Tracker, we see all of this offseason’s free agent activity. We’ll limit this look to players who inked major league contracts and set the cutoff as November 6 — the date on which free agents were first permitted to speak with teams other than their 2023 club. This excludes the extensions signed by Joe Jiménez (Braves), Max Muncy (Dodgers) and Colin Rea (Brewers) between the start of the offseason and the official opening of free agency.
This isn’t an exhaustive look at a team’s offseason activity. The Yankees (Juan Soto) and Braves (Chris Sale) took on high-priced star players in trade, while the Dodgers extended Tyler Glasnow and the Brewers signed a long-term deal with top prospect Jackson Chourio. This looks only at free agency. Teams are ordered by overall spending.
Los Angeles Dodgers
Total guarantees: $1.043 billion
- DH/RHP Shohei Ohtani: Ten years, $700MM (valued at roughly $460.77MM after accounting for deferrals)
- RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto: Twelve years, $325MM
- OF Jason Heyward: One year, $9MM
- RHP Joe Kelly: One year, $8MM
- RHP Ricky Vanasco: One year, $900K (controllable through 2029)
Philadelphia Phillies
Total guarantees: $172MM
Arizona Diamondbacks
Total guarantees: $122MM
- LHP Eduardo Rodriguez: Four years, $80MM (with vesting option for 2028)
- OF Lourdes Gurriel Jr.: Three years, $42MM (opt out after 2025; club option for 2027)
San Francisco Giants
Total guarantees: $121.25MM
- OF Jung Hoo Lee: Six years, $113MM (opt out after 2027)
- C Tom Murphy: Two years, $8.25MM (with 2026 club option)
Cincinnati Reds
Total guarantees: $106.2MM
- IF Jeimer Candelario: Three years, $45MM (with 2027 club option)
- RHP Nick Martinez: Two years, $26MM (opt out after 2024)
- RHP Frankie Montas: One year, $16MM
- RHP Emilio Pagán: Two years, $16MM (opt out after 2024)
- RHP Buck Farmer: One year, $2.25MM
- C Austin Wynns: One year split deal, $950K in majors (controllable through 2026)
Kansas City Royals
Total guarantees: $105MM
- RHP Seth Lugo: Three years, $45MM (opt out after 2025)
- RHP Michael Wacha: Two years, $32MM (opt out after 2024)
- OF Hunter Renfroe: Two years, $13MM (opt out after 2024)
- RHP Chris Stratton: Two years, $8MM (opt out after 2024)
- LHP Will Smith: One year, $5MM
- IF Garrett Hampson: One year, $2MM
St. Louis Cardinals
Total guarantees: $99MM
- RHP Sonny Gray: Three years, $75MM (with 2027 club option)
- RHP Kyle Gibson: One year, $13MM (with 2025 club option)
- RHP Lance Lynn: One year, $11MM (with 2025 club option)
Detroit Tigers
Total guarantees: $45.75MM
- RHP Kenta Maeda: Two years, $24MM
- RHP Jack Flaherty: One year, $14MM
- LHP Andrew Chafin: One year, $4.75MM (with 2025 club option)
- RHP Shelby Miller: One year, $3MM (with 2025 club option)
Boston Red Sox
Total guarantees: $39.5MM
- RHP Lucas Giolito: Two years, $38.5MM (opt out after 2024; club option for 2026)
- RHP Cooper Criswell: One year, $1MM (controllable through 2029)
Atlanta Braves
Total guarantees: $30MM
San Diego Padres
Total guarantees: $28MM
- LHP Yuki Matsui: Five years, $28MM (opt outs after 2026 and ’27)
Texas Rangers
Total guarantees: $26.5MM
Toronto Blue Jays
Total guarantees: $25.5MM
Chicago White Sox
Total guarantees: $24.3MM
- RHP Erick Fedde: Two years, $15MM
- C Martín Maldonado: One year, $4MM (with 2025 vesting option)
- LHP Tim Hill: One year, $1.8MM
- INF Paul DeJong: One year, $1.75MM
- RHP Chris Flexen: One year, $1.75MM
Seattle Mariners
Total guarantees: $24MM
- DH/C Mitch Garver: Two years, $24MM
New York Mets
Total guarantees: $18.8MM
- RHP Luis Severino: One year, $13MM
- IF Joey Wendle: One year, $2MM
- RHP Jorge López: One year, $2MM
- RHP Michael Tonkin: One year, $1MM (controllable through 2026)
- RHP Austin Adams: One year split contract, $800K in majors (controllable through 2025)
Pittsburgh Pirates
Total guarantees: $16.2MM
- LHP Martín Pérez: One year, $8MM
- DH/OF Andrew McCutchen: One year, $5MM
- IF Rowdy Tellez: One year, $3.2MM
Baltimore Orioles
Total guarantees: $13MM
- RHP Craig Kimbrel: One year, $13MM (with 2025 club option)
Houston Astros
Total guarantees: $12MM
Milwaukee Brewers
Total guarantees: $11.25MM
Los Angeles Angels
Total guarantees: More than $6.8MM
- RHP Zach Plesac: Salary unreported
- RHP Luis García: One year, $4.25MM
- RHP Adam Cimber: One year, $1.65MM
- LHP Adam Kolarek: One year, $900K (controllable through 2026)
Cleveland Guardians
Total guarantees: $4.75MM
- C Austin Hedges: One year, $4MM
- RHP Ben Lively: One year, $750K (controllable through 2028)
Washington Nationals
Total guarantees: $4.25MM
- RHP Dylan Floro: One year, $2.25MM
- IF/OF Nick Senzel: One year, $2MM (controllable through 2025)
Oakland A’s
Total guarantees: $1.5MM
Tampa Bay Rays
Total guarantees: $1.1MM
- RHP Chris Devenski: One year, $1.1MM (with 2025 club option)
Minnesota Twins
Total guarantees: $950K
- RHP Josh Staumont: One year, $950K (controllable through 2025)
New York Yankees
Total guarantees: $0
- None
Chicago Cubs
Total guarantees: $0
- None
Miami Marlins
Total guarantees: $0
- None
Colorado Rockies
Total guarantees: $0
- None
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Padres making windows dressing moves.
19 teams have spent less in FA. But all you really want to do is whine. Why is that?
Not good for MLB when the Dodgers have outspent the rest of baseball combined by a good margin.
(and More relievers to HOF of course) XD just joshing around
I always forget someone!! Haha
Cubs Tommy R & Jed H had spend all their money on a new manager and pay off David Ross to sit at home In 2024.
I keep hoping their waiting out the market to get better deals on some combo of Bellinger, Hoskins, Chapman, Montgomery but my gut says we’re coming up empty on all of them.
It could be Boras is waiting them out. And I’m guessing Jed is waiting out a lot of potential trade scenarios we don’t know about as well.
Never thought I’d see the day when the Yankees would have spent $0 in free agency this late into the offseason.
I mean, obviously they’ve been busy making some extremely impactful trades, but it is still just surprising nonetheless.
The Yankees can’t do a Gerrit Cole contract every single off-season, but did apparently try really hard to sign Yamamota and did acquire a “big fish” in Juan Soto.
Not sure why the article wasn’t expanded to include new commitments such as the Yankees’ Soto and Verdugo trades. While they were specifically excluded, they would tell a truer picture of the team’s off-season spending.
@dewey “Free agent spending”. It’s clear that the Yankees are now a poverty franchise.
Lol
I completely agree, it’s just really weird seeing a $0 next to their amount spent in free agency.
The Yankees are being outspent by the A’s and Rays!! Of course free agent spending doesn’t include what they are going to pay Juan Soto in arbitration
@ketchzzzzThe first sentence of your comment is FALSE without the necessary qualifier.
@richardc The Yankees’ decline began with the rise of the use of the neologism “impactful.”
Orwell is glad he’s dead. His “Politics and the English Language” is one of the great short essays.
And prophetic as well.
When referencing the LAD in the comments, please don’t round to $1B because $0.043B is still a lot of money.
But they in reality increased their 2024 obligations by far more when including extension and trades.
They increased their 2024 obligations far more than $1B? Please explain! (Really this just points out the flawed premise of the article.)
Blue, I only meant the article says they haven’t spent anything yet on free agents. Never meant as a comparison to the Dodgers. Their trades have increased their 24 obligations by over $40M (subject to more or less by free agent subtractions but when rosters are set for 24, there will be a likely net increase.
Well, yeah. But my point is obligations that stretch out over multiple years should not be counted as if they are occurring in one year, especially when their present value is so much lower.
How is it a flawed premise? LA has signed guys to deals that equal $1.043B of eventual payments, correct? This article isn’t about just 2024 obligations.
“Each Team’s Free Agent Spending Thus Far” is the headline of the article and the premise of what it’s about. Yet how much any team will be eventually obligated to pay in the future is not how much they “spent.” This is especially true in the case of the contract that inflates the Dodgers’ number so much. Even if you add up all of the team’s salary obligations to Ohtani and claim it’s already “spent” (which it isn’t), the total is about half of the headline number. So what have we learned here today?
Agree on one level Blue but at some point future obligations become present expenses. I’m not trying to compare the present Dodgers to the Mets from 15 -20 years ago but things happen. The Mets believed their Madoff earnings would continue and then ownership got caught in a perfect storm between no Madoff earnings, a decline in real estate values and an agreement to share in the funding of Citi Field. You never know…
At the time they become a present expense, that’s when the money is spent. For the Dodgers, the vast majority of these future obligations are kicked 10+ years down the road, so that’s when they need to write the checks. Madoff was a crook who ran the most notorious Ponzi scheme in history. He ended up in prison. The majority ownership of the Dodgers is a huge hedge fund with billions in capital, and they aren’t raking cash off the top to pay for his and hers beach houses. That said, investing is always a risk, but without risk, you don’t get returns.
Idk, I don’t see it. MLBTR and many other outlets frame it in such a way every year. You’re right, it hasn’t been spent yet, but the vast majority of people who consume this kind of content understand that the Dodgers haven’t paid out over $1B already, just that they’ve committed to spending such an amount over time, particularly since MLBTR incorporates contract details to provide context. It kind of just feels like semantics to me.
Semantics is the meaning of words, and important as such. This site is pretty good about explaining the meaning of things, just not so much in this case.
I get your point, I just don’t think anyone is misunderstanding their intention or mistakenly believe the Dodgers have already paid out a billion dollars.
Okay fair enough, but then what is the point of the article?
BSLA
“what is the point of the article?”
To get clicks
MLBTR could try and get clicks AND inform people. They’ve decided the former is far more important.
I would say to give people an idea of the commitments teams have made and how that may impact future moves and how they act in upcoming offseasons.
filihok, how is this not informative? It gives people an idea of a team’s approach and how the commitments they’ve made will impact them going forward. I don’t really understand how someone can be up in arms of something so insignificant when 98+% of readers will not be confused whatsoever about “spending” and what it means. It’s not clickbait at all.
But you see the Dodgers did not in fact commit over $1B to new contracts this year. As widely reported, including here, they actually committed little more than half that much, and it being over 10+ years actually does matter to whatever impact they will have now and later. It sure doesn’t help the cause of understanding these commitments to exaggerate them and it’s hard to argue in reading the comments that these concepts are well understood.
ma2
“filihok, how is this not informative? ”
Because it doesn’t really day anything useful
“It gives people an idea of a team’s approach and how the commitments they’ve made will impact them going forward.”
It really doesn’t.
The Yankees have spent $0 so far
The Giants have spent $121 million
What does this tell us about their future commitments?
“I don’t really understand how someone can be up in arms of something so insignificant ”
Who’s up in arms?
And it’s it’s “insignificant”, how is it useful?
BS_LA
“But you see the Dodgers did not in fact commit over $1B to new contracts this year. As widely reported, including here, they actually committed little more than half that much, and it being over 10+ years actually does matter to whatever impact they will have now and later.”
Come on
Whenever someone buys a house or a car or some new socks that they put on their credit card, they most definitely tell people the total amount they will pay including interest. Everyone definitely always does that. It’s a totally normal way to talk about these kinds of transactions that we all use in our every day life [/sarcasm]
“it’s hard to argue in reading the comments that these concepts are well understood.”
Yep
Imagine having the readership that MLBTR has, and the opportunity to help people understand basic facts about the world around them using a subject they have interest in, and… Just not doing that.
@filihok
I don’t know how you are seeing and responding to my comments, because I can’t respond to yours as you apparently have me blocked. No idea why.
Anyway, the credit card analogy isn’t very useful. It might be if deferrals were buy now-pay later, but they aren’t. Teams are required to set aside the present value of the contract now, so if you’re looking for analogies, a better one is a savings account.
I do have to say adding trade acquisitions would make it much clearer. Because the Yankees having signed nobody doesn’t tell the full picture. But still, if one has enough knowledge of a team’s payroll constraints and current outlook, they can make educated assumptions about payroll room remaining and positions that might be targeted.
Insignificant things can still be useful, in my opinion, such as posts about minor league filler or borderline MLB talents signing, or even a running account like this to know who went where and the contract they signed.
I understand this point, as well, but I’ve never seen a single contract reported on that details how it will be affected by inflation and interest etc. The fact is, no matter how much that changes, players have still been signed to certain terms.
Sure, but whether it’s mentioned or not, present value is figured into multi year contracts. A contract that looks like it pays the same amount for five years, really doesn’t.
It’s no surprise to me that the Cubs haven’t done anything worthwhile yet. They have reloaded the farm and do have options like PCA for CF, pitcher Cade Horton, 1B Matt Mervis, and possibly Matt Shaw if they can move him from SS to 3B. They also have OF’s Alcantara and Canario close. I believe they will trade some prospects for the right deal and fill the gaps with short term deal guys like they tried with Hosmer and Mancini last year.
Even with those prospects and options go get 1 of Bellinger, Chapman, or Hoskins and Montgomery. Then we don’t have to make a trade until the deadline if it’s needed.
mattg3 Yes the Chicago Cubs have prospects however I sure you know that the reason they are call that Is that you may hit on 1-2 of them and rest could be the next Mark Prior or Addison Russell or Kevin Orie
@mattg3 PCA’s not really an ‘option,’ is he? He’s the Cubs starting CFer, by nearly all accounts, not counting some weeks’ worth of monkeying with service time.
Dodgers collapse is gonna be a movie…
Won 100 games in their reset year. You’re cooked for the next decade lil bro
Still came up short when it mattered most, as usual. Enjoy another decade of that…
what sad crew do you back?
This is the most pathetic argument. Grow up.
Please don’t feed the trolls.
If the next decade is like the last one (even without a World Series) I will take it. I don’t go to the ballpark to watch losses, and making it to the dance is awesome even if we get unlucky once there.
Ohtani and Yamamoto wasn’t on the team. Not moved.
Censor police is out in full motion today
I called you out on being a typical fairweather la fan and it got censored and deleted. Oh well I tried
The troll is strong with this one.
Exactly and all non-Dodger fans are looking forward to it. If my team doesn’t win, I’m rooting for the Giants because that would be justice if they win before the Dodgers.
jealousy is a cruel mistress
At least be realistic and pick Arizona or San Diego. Giants seem like a big stretch. Side note, as a Dodger Fan…our true enemy is no longer the Giants. It’s the Astros.
Yeah, the Giants platoon team with two good SPs will win a world series anytime soon. Maybe Posey can beg someone in next year’s free agent class to come to Sam Francisco
Seems like Dodger fans are still having a great time every year. It’s only fans of other teams that see them as a failure.
More the reason why I chose the Giants, historically their biggest rival.
I don’t the dodgers have enjoyed choking every season since 88 minus the pandemic year. Great they won over a 100 games last year and lost in the first round AGAIN
Failure is due to their lack of championships in recent years (many don’t count the abbreviated 20 season
They choked into winning 3 pennants in the last few years. I wish all teams that amount of “choke”
You don’t win championships in the regular season. When you’re consistently one of the best regular season teams and yet gets bounced in the first round almost every time that is what you call choke artists. If you wanna root for the regular season champ dodgers go ahead
As a Dodger fan, we don’t care what other fans think or feel about 2020.
That’s why you felt the need to respond, huh? Embarrassing
it’s been a decade since 2014
one winning season in the last 7 years
Yep, they’re ready.
nah, that’s next season with Ohtani pitching
Lmao
Look up what “pennant” means.
@king donk how does your team do getting to the postseason? oh wait you don’t back a team, just tear down others.
@jimbobsjorts Not ‘an epic failure’ for anyone with a rudimentary grasp of high school freshman statistics, comrade.
Even the ’39 Yankees wouldn’t have been much more than 30% to win a World Series in the era of 3-, 4-round postseasons.
Please tell us how you feel
VinScully…that’s exactly what people were saying all the years they won. No one, not one person on this site would’ve expected the Dbacks to go as far as they did last year.
Idk if the Dodgers really even have any true rivals, other than their historic rivalry with the Giants. It is pretty difficult to be rivals with anyone when you’re able to freely outbid them for whichever player you want.
Aa far as their most consistent NL competition lately, I’d say it is probably limited to just the Braves and the Phillies.
Astros 7 straight ALCS appearances plus 4 World Series while winning 2. Oh wait there’s no team who’s done better lately. Try again chump
And the more people that just simply hate on them, the more Dodgers’ fans sit back, laugh, and enjoy themselves.
Especially when they’re winning and making a postseason run every year, and a large majority of other teams are struggling to even remain relevant on a year to year basis..
As a UGA fan, I can attest that the more hate your team gets it just solidifies the fact that your team is on top and other fans are just hating, jealous, and most likely mad and miserable their team isn’t as good.
I don’t think this is true at all re LAD. People hate on them because the Dodgers are constantly pampered and overhyped, despite being an annual choke squad. Not sensing much jealousy out there.
jimbob =loser
Just wait clown boi
And got cooked in the playoffs.
“Exactly and all non-Dodger fans are looking forward to it”
What a pathetic existence
Paging Jon Bois
Do we believe Heywards bat will be a positive again this year? He’s been so up and down for his career I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a pumpkin again
He should be fine if he hardly ever has to face LHP. Not crazy about platooning but that’s how he will be used again this year.
I think he loves the environment and is reinvigorated enough to continue his solid showing. I am biased of course.
The Dodgers hitting coach actually got him to open up his swing. AND, He actually stuck to it for the whole season. We shall see
What a great time to be a Dodgers fan
Can’t wait to see ticket prices!!!
Your sign name probably will be bleacher seat prices. Just add a decimal for the cents.
Not me baby! I’ll be watching row 1
(my lazy boy)
I don’t know who is worse, Dodger fans (who are mostly bandwagoners) or the supposed uber fans, Cardinal fans.
E!SPN and FOX Sports makes a living off of the bandwagon fans. I’m surprised they don’t get Velcro to create jerseys that can allow those fans to buy all the team sports logos and lettering so those fans can just choose the teams and players they’ll be rooting for at the moment.
I like what the Tigers have done. They filled needs at reasonable prices and have some upside to realistically compete in a weak division. No real long term risk.
Agreed. I’m reasonably happy with their moves. Hopefully one more to come with at least a short term add at 3B instead of Vierling.
I’m rooting for them. No knock on Miggy, but being done with that contract and his poor showing at the end will definitely help. Love the guy, but hard to watch a HOF’er crawl to the finish line.
If by “end” you mean “the last seven years of it,” yes.
Astoundingly bad deal. Record bad, all-time.
.262/.329/.381 with a 94 OPS+.
Negative 2.6 WAR for $212,000,000. A 1st ballot HOFer completely done with his age 33 season. The object lesson for anyone who thinks peak years and prime age in baseball extends into a players 30s, which is an astoundingly prevalent belief.
It’s called injuries and it happens. He limped to the finish but lots of players do. Miggy still rocked in Detroit, no matter how poorly the contract aged. I agree lengthy contracts are not the way to go.
Waiting patiently for the Po Bob guy
700M is actually 460M. I missed that part in math class.
It only goes down when paid after the contract. If you give him 20 years with 2 MM the first 10 years and 68 MM the last 10, the economic net present value is the same, but the accounting net present value is very different.
“When paid after the contract”?
Deferred money means “the economic net present value is the same”?
You write funny, friend.
I am comparing the Ohtani contract to one that is 20 years and 700 MM, but with the 2 million and 68 million payments scheduled at the same time. My point is that they should account for inflation in all cases, not just in cases that the money is deferred.
calculatorsoup.com/calculators/financial/present-v…
@Capt
The is a financial calculator, but that is not how accounting NPV would be calculated here. Note how backloaded deals don’t lower the tax hut, even though the NPV is lower for them.
I have a BS in accounting but didn’t feel like wasting my time finding a proper example for people who would not appreciate it so I just grabbed something to demonstrate that there is a complex world of time and money and all that interesting financial stuff
BS is the operative term for nearly all of the comments on this article
BS means I have a four year college degree in accounting
Bachelor of Science
@Capt therein lies the humor son
This is an irony alert! You will receive no further warnings!
🙂
Irony is the opiate of the masses.
Irony is the hobgoblin of little minds.
I should have been a farmer!
-Pop Fisher
You missed it in math class because it was covered in economics class
James;
You must not believe in inflation or interest rates either.
@Capt-The only good time it was to be a Dodger fan is when Vin Scully was calling Dodger Games.
Well there is somewhere 99 percent of us can find common ground, Vin Scully was awesome. Scully and John Wooden were two of the most influential sports figures in Los Angeles history as an announcer and a college coach.
D-Train is actually really good and funny as heck!
Very top-heavy this offseason for teams, but also indicative that most teams will spend more the second half of the offseason
Why did they omit Luke Maile (c) from the Reds list. He was signed as a FA for $3.oMM with an option for 2025 at $3.5MM. I can’t see why that contract doesn’t qualify and raise the Reds total to $109MM+ (so far).
Maile’s $3MM could be the best money spent, as he could become the Reds regular catcher. Stephenson doesn’t catch everyday just by getting up in the morning.
Maile with 0.9 WAR overall in 2023 (0.6 DWAR) and Reds sign the catcher for $3MM? That’s gotta count.
@cguy Maile’s not a full time catcher, a regular catcher, particularly not at age 33. He’s a defense-first catcher whose skill set includes hitting a bit better against LHP’ing, making him a decent short platoon guy in tandem with a defensively challenged LHH’ing C.
But you never want Maile getting 300 PA in a year.
Without going postal, would you say that is Maille-fraud to omit him?
:p
Maile technically signed a contract extension a week before free agency began.
Hope the Cubs don’t lose any money this year..
In terms of ROI, I think the Royals and the Cards lead the way
I would put the DBacks, Reds and Tigers in the discussion too
Unless you’re taking into account the cost of feeding Lance Lynn
Like the dirty birds signing of Gray, not so much on KG, and LOL on Lance Lynn. Have to call that a wash overall.
It’s refreshingly nice to see Cincinnati and KC near the top (so far!)
I have a strange feeling the Reds aren’t done yet. That is my hope anyway. They could sign either a power bat/outfielder type or another starter and be good to go. Competition and quality is needed to make the playoffs.
Someone please wake up Jed Hoyer! Tell him that Bears, not Cubs, hibernate in the winter…
Hmmm….idk about that
I feel sorry for the A’s. Spent only $1.5M, but on a dud.
So you’re saying they got Gott?!
Man… right when I was starting to respect your insight, Gwynnning. 🙂
Can we please bring back the mute button? Gbs42 is traumatized that she has to see my reply to some comments.
Love the Dodgers moves – obviously. But love DBacks moves – including trade for Suarez – and don’t think they are done. And for a lot less money. KC and Detroit also making some good signings. Not sure they are enough to make the playoffs but solid.
Dodgers and KC moves get A grades from me. Ohtani is a huge injury risk and also a the highest ceiling. Yamamoto has a low floor and the second highest ceiling. Succeed or epically fail Dodger baseball has become must see baseball around the globe. KC improved a lot for a little, still sub 0.500, but not by much.
Do fans not see that the Dodgers are betting a lot on very injury prone starting pitchers (and one who has never pitcher in the ML before)? Why are they assuming they will even win their division?
Tigers need to add a short term 3B to finish the offseason off.
Detroit wins the Central. Minnesota backpeddling and ChiSox are selling everyone not named “Robert”. KC will make things interesting (love their signings so far) and Cleveland and Bieber? Wish the Cubs could swing a trade for him and Naylor….
Dodgers should really say 800 million because of deferrals – still an exorbitant sum. Ohtani should be at least rev neutral, too. So 1.043 billion really needs a lot of context.
Nuance and subtlety are lost on this crowd
I think we drafted Nuance in the 4th round in 2016
I think they traded Sheldon Nuance a while back.
@differentbears you’re right. they got Lance Subtle and Jose Grimacé in return.
You know you’re having a bad off-season when the Oakland As outspend you.
The Dodgers win the coveted off-season king title. Congratulations.
Yes it does mean so much. Like when the Yanks or Padres won in the recent years. Congrats.
Yankees one of 4 teams with 0$ lol brocade no one wants to play for the Yankees. They are a team of have to’s and stuck there. Aaron should have signed with the dodgers. He’s sorry now.
We have to wait and see if Yankees eventually sign Soto to an extension or not.
MLB is going to be juicing balls to get three into the 300 HR club this year. This season is already a complete sham
Funally some Wander Franco news. Hope he gets what he deserves if he’s sleeping with teenagers
for more on Wander ask the guy who seems to be the expert on juiced balls
Ummm aroid? I don’t know who we are referring to
Uh-oh . You’re in big trouble, You’ve clearly disregarded the comments closed warning. You must be one of those feisty North Koreans living in exile using a VPN just to let the outside world know your views on Wander knowing full well the risk involved to yourself, your family, and even the family pet. Kudos King Donk. History will remember your bravery
Slider didn’t you have some adopted Asian kid coming, how do you have time to troll on here?
I adopt Asians as an investment. Clearly you’ve seen what they’ve been paid this offseason.
I don’t he like likes you like that. Time to move on
The mancrush you seem to have brah. It’s okay just let it go
#muted
Cubs signed Craig Counsel
That is kept secret in article due to client-counsel privilege.
So, Is MLB going to reset the penalty every year going forward? If so, who knows what it’s going to be in 2030? Maybe the Dodger’s FO already thought of this. What’s a $ even going to be worth? Oh well….Go Diamondbacks
The CBT threshold is set through the CBA, so it’s a known number for balance of the contract, $241M in 2025 and $244M in 2026. After that, who know is right.
Next free agent signing for the Friars needs to be Jurickson Profar to replace Juan Soto in Left Field (and bat leadoff) as he used to for us.
None of these teams have spend any actual money yet. The players are paid throughout the year and not for the full amount so it seems odd to suggest the Dodgers spend $1B.
Reds also signed Luke Maile.
Technically not a free agent signing, he signed an extension a week prior to filing date.
Ooh good catch
What is the point of setting the cutoff date on Nov 6th? Who cares if those relievers on the Braves signed before that, for instance? Its deceptive looking.
With all the trades and releases thought the Mariners would be at a negative number.
At least they know how to put on a hockey game.
Only in a video game did I ever see KC spending top 6 most in an offseason. And I never thought a billion would ever be spent in 1 offseason by a single team in any sport.
Wait ’til next year!
This is all interesting stuff but why are comments closed on the Wander Franco story?
Because people can’t be aduls and what is there really to discuss? It’s going through legal process.
Its a baseball story. Needs to be discussed.
It’s not a baseball story. It’s a potential crime story with some implications for baseball. But those implications are far from the important aspects.
MLBTR did a poll, and the majority opinion was to close comments on this type of story, due to the type of comments seen previously on such articles.
Wow. Intense stuff.
Because those comments would be SO enlightening.
Tigers need some HITTING, badly !!
Short term 3B signing to upgrade on Vierling would be nice.
I’ll take it !!
Really like the Tigers FA upside potential in a wide open division.
On flip side, lot of spending on likely duds for Reds (Montas brief successful period was PED fueled, Candelario is meh and didn’t need him, Pagan is a guy opponents like seeing come out of bullpen). Too bad b/c their lineup is very exciting.
The Reds have a tradition of signing free agents (or trading for guys) past their prime. Dave Parker might be the last impact free agent they signed. Maybe Castellanos but he opted out of a four year deal in two years and only one year was solid.
Wil Myers, Moose, John Smiley, David Wells, the list goes on and on.
The Dodgers are just beyond disgusting and MLB is ruined as a result. A decade of tainted dominance coming now.
Tainted Dominance…what a great name for a band.
Oh Mickey, that is hogwash and you know it. Pep up and enjoy watching Shohei & Yoshi this year.
refreshing. all the best to your team TR
But I can stand watching them with their stupid dances when they reach 2nd base.
Based on how much money they spent?? Well, I guess they had to spend a billion dollars to catch up to the NL champion Diamondbacks. Good teams always beat good players in MLB. It is a 162 game marathon, and then you could get bounced by a hot team in a short playoff series. I think that if the Dodgers won 3 in the next ten years, it would be a real accomplishment. I would take the under on three WS rings in ten years.
They don’t even have the highest payroll for 2024! Were you disgusted by the Mets or padres last year? Or are you just a little jealous hater? What is tainted about them? The Astros are rained after cheating. Sure. Wtf are you even talking about?
Tainted* not rained
The Rockies are right where they need to be in FA spending for 2024. Shocked to see the Cubs and Yankees with them there, though!
Dodgers have nearly spent more than the rest of the league combined
Maybe it’s time for other teams to wake up and do something? Still plenty FAs available.
It’s just so disgusting what the Dodgers are doing. Completely ruining the sport.
And it’s basically collusion. Ohtani is a clown he’s wanted to be a Dodger since 2018, we were all saved by the fact that the NL didn’t have the DH back then (God I knew that’d come back to bite us somehow down the road, leave it to Manfred to ruin tradition). He used other teams to push his contract value higher, same as Yamamoto who was destined to go play with his daddy Shohei. The Dodgers are the classic “can’t beat ‘em? Buy em” team. Their recent rosters have literally been littered with players who beat them in the postseason in recent years:
Syndergaard
Heyward
Kimbrel
Mookie
JD
Price
Brasier
Kelly (STL & BOS)
Trea
D. Hudson
Scherzer
Heck they even had Jake Marisnick for a minute and signed Crismatt to a minors deal this off-season. It’s just funny because even if the Dodgers win 4-5 rings which we all expect/are preemptively popping our nausea pills to brace for, it will be with players who already earned rings at the Dodgers’ expense. That’s how petty and pathetic and desperate this team and phony city is to “reward” their bandwagon, see-and-be-seen fans.
You seem very emotional about this.
You sure know a lot about the Dodgers!
Well they’re the only team that the media covers, so there’s no one else to know about.
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HB, they had to pacify us fans. We have been out for blood the past 2 off-seasons. And they did. Thus far…
Proving my point about Dodgers “fans!” Thank you.
You seem to mistakenly believe that you made one.
Just the obvious one that the Dodgers are out to ruin the sport.
🙁
BlueSkies, Don’t feed the trolls!
Touche. Somebody had to win today’s frowny award.
Haha That was the first reply I ever got on this site. “Don’t feed the trolls.” From You haha. It was a good frowny face though. Almost an indifferent type frown hah
If I was a free agent, I’d be spending!
Looks pretty good for Detroit that has plenty of it’s kids to view.
First place for sure if they sign or trade for a short term placeholder who is an upgrade from Vierling (I.e. Polanco). A discounted Miguel Vargas would be nice for boxing day week!
Well, the Marlins haven’t spent much of anything other than small pickups, so I’m sure they’ve been saving that budget to sign one of the SS’s on the board. It the only real need they have left to fill since they seem to have addressed upgrading from Stallings at catcher, and bringing in a bunch of RH relievers to compete for bullpen roles to compliment our surplus of LH relievers.
Come on Marlins! It doesn’t take much to upgrade from the year that Wendle gave us both offensively and defensively. Both Tim Anderson and Amed Rosario had down years, and were still better than Wendle.
If you aren’t going to sign a SS, at least announce that you’ll be letting Xavier Edwards, Jacob Amaya and Jordan Groshans compete for the job in Spring Training.
One thing you should not do is trade a pitching asset for a SS, unless you’re pulling off a major trade, like say with the Guardians that lands you both Gimenez and Clase. Otherwise, stick to free agency on a short deal or give one of our internal options that chance. We’re talking about upgrading from Wendle’s 2023 season here. We’re not trying to replace someone who’s an All Star, Superstar, Hall of Fame caliber or legendary. Just has to be better than 2023 Wendle.