Yankees To Promote Everson Pereira, Oswald Peraza
2023/08/yankees-to-promote-everson-pereira.htmlBader and Isiah Kiner-Falefa (who has taken over as the primary third baseman) are impending free agents. … Early-career injuries and the pandemic cancelation of the 2020 minor league campaign meant Pereira didn't reach full season ball until 2021.
Top 50 Deadline Trade Candidates: Early July Edition
2023/07/top-50-deadline-trade-candidates-early-july-edition.htmlThe #4 player on our recent Free Agent Power Rankings, Giolito is the only member of our top six free agents who has much of a chance to move at the deadline. … Bellinger isn't back to his MVP form, but he's amidst easily his best season since 2020.
Looking At Pirates’ Past Trades That Are Starting To Pay Off
2023/04/looking-at-pirates-past-trades-that-are-starting-to-pay-off.htmlThere are former amateur free agents, like Rodolfo Castro and Ji Hwan Bae. … But after a couple of 100-loss seasons and an even worse winning percentage in the shortened 2020 season, it's an encouraging development, even if it's not wholly sustainable.
Rockies Sign Jurickson Profar
2023/03/rockies-to-sign-jurickson-profar.htmlProfar continued to linger on the open market for months, the last of MLBTR's Top 50 Free Agents that was still available until now. … He was solid enough in the shortened 2020 campaign to earn himself a three-year deal but, as mentioned, struggled in the first before rebounding in the second.
Padres Showing Interest In Michael Wacha
2023/02/padres-showing-interest-in-michael-wacha.htmlWacha is the best remaining free agent starting pitcher and the only hurler who made MLBTR's top 50 free agents at the start of the offseason who is still unsigned. … Wacha's average fastball speed was at exactly 93 MPH after sitting at 93.6 MPH and 93.8 MPH, respectively, in 2020-21.
Diamondbacks Sign Andrew Chafin
2023/02/diamondbacks-agree-to-sign-andrew-chafin.htmlMLBTR ranked Chafin 39th on our list of the offseason's top 50 free agents, and projected the left-hander for a two-year, $18MM deal. … Chafin was drafted 43rd overall by the D'Backs in 2011 and he spent his first seven MLB seasons in an Arizona uniform before being dealt to Chicago in a 2020 deadline swap.
Cubs Interested In Andrew Chafin, Matt Moore
2023/01/cubs-interested-in-andrew-chafin-matt-moore.htmlMLBTR listed Chafin 39th on our ranking of the offseason's top 50 free agents, projecting the veteran southpaw for a two-year, $18MM deal. … Chafin was in fact a bounce-back type when he signed a one-year, $2.75MM deal with the Cubs in the 2020-21 offseason, as the southpaw had struggled with the Diamondbacks in 2020 before the Cubs initially picked him up at the trade deadline.
MLBTR Poll: Where Will Michael Wacha Sign?
2022/12/mlbtr-poll-where-will-michael-wacha-sign.htmlIn fact, Wacha is the only remaining starting pitcher left from the Top 50 free agents. … Between 2020-21, Wacha tossed 158 2/3 innings for the Mets and Rays, working to a 5.39 ERA.
Free Agent Profile: Adam Duvall
2022/12/free-agent-profile-adam-duvall.htmlThanks to a busy month of December, most of the top free agents from this offseason are off the board, assuming the Carlos Correa deal with the Mets eventually gets over the finish line. … He also hit 16 in the shortened 2020 season and 12 this year prior to being shut down.
Marlins Sign Jean Segura
2022/12/marlins-to-sign-jean-segura.htmlSegura was one of four players and two position players (the other being Jurickson Profar) from MLBTR's pre-offseason top 50 free agents who hadn't yet agreed to terms. … Segura has typically been a durable and reliable presence in the lineup, topping 125 games in all eight full seasons from 2013-21 and playing in 57 of 60 games during the abbreviated 2020 campaign.
The Top Remaining Free Agents
2022/12/the-top-remaining-free-agents.htmlOver the past few seasons, it wasn't uncommon for a few of the top free agents to linger on the open market after the calendar had flipped over to a new year. … That includes a nightmare 2020 season in which he posted a 6.52 ERA in 9 2/3 innings.
Orioles Interested In Michael Wacha
2022/12/orioles-interested-in-michael-wacha.htmlHe's one of five unsigned starting pitchers who'd secured a spot on MLBTR's top 50 free agents, alongside Carlos Rodon,…… He generated whiffs on 9.5% of his pitches, below his 2020-21 levels.
Christian Vázquez Reportedly Progressing Towards Deal With Unknown Team
2022/12/christian-vazquez-reportedly-nearing-deal-with-unknown-team.htmlRegardless, he still was the second catcher on MLBTR's list of the top 50 free agents for this offseason, getting predicted for a three-year deal worth $27MM. … Over 2019 and 2020, he hit .278/.327/.472 for a wRC+ of 105.
Giants Not Currently Considering Chris Bassitt
2022/12/giants-considering-chris-bassitt.htmlMLBTR rated Bassitt as the fifth-best starter available this winter (and 13th overall on our Top 50 Free Agents list), and of the four pitchers placed ahead of Bassitt, only Rodon and Senga remain, while Jacob deGrom signed with the Rangers and Justin Verlander joined the Mets. … With top-ten finishes in AL Cy Young Award voting as a member of the Athletics in 2020-21, Bassitt is also from a one-year wonder, and he still projects as a solid starter heading into his age-34 season.
Cardinals Interested In José Quintana Reunion
2022/12/cardinals-interested-in-jose-quintana-reunion.htmlAs Rosenthal notes, four of these pitchers are free agents at the end of 2023: Wainwright, Mikolas, Montgomery and Flaherty. … Quintana, 34 in January, endured a rough two-year stretch in 2020 and 2021.
Guardians Made Three-Year Offer To Jose Abreu
2022/11/guardians-made-three-year-offer-to-jose-abreu.htmlThough many fans will remain skeptical of "at least we tried" reports of teams just missing on free agents, there are reasons to think the Guards might actually have some money to work with this winter. … He also isn't likely to throw off the club's low-strikeout style either, as he's never posted a rate above 19.2% outside of the shortened 2020 season.
White Sox Sign Mike Clevinger
2022/12/white-sox-in-agreement-with-mike-clevinger.htmlMLBTR ranked Clevinger 49th on our list of the winter's top 50 free agents, and projected him for a one-year, $10MM. … He experienced a noticeable drop in velocity, with his fastball averaging 93.5 MPH compared to 95 MPH during the 2019 and 2020 seasons --- this likely contributed to a decreased strikeout rate (18.8% in 2022 compared to 27.5% in 2020 and 22.6% in 2019).
White Sox Showing Strong Interest In Mike Clevinger
2022/11/white-sox-showing-strong-interest-in-mike-clevinger.htmlMLBTR ranked Clevinger 49th on our top 50 free agents list, predicting a one-year, $10MM deal. … The Padres acquired Clevinger from the Indians in a nine-player trade at the 2020 trade deadline.
Mets Interested In Jameson Taillon
2022/11/mets-interested-in-jameson-taillon.htmlTaillon (who just turned 31 on November 18) is a free agent for the first time in his career, and he ranks 14th on MLBTR's list of the winter's top 50 free agents. … Taillon missed most of 2019 and all of 2020 recovering from Tommy John surgery, but he rebounded to post a 4.08 ERA over 321 2/3 innings since the start of the 2021 campaign.
Latest On Red Sox Pitching Targets
2022/11/latest-on-red-sox-pitching-targets-2.htmlThe Red Sox have already been linked to multiple free agent pitchers, with such names as Kodai Senga, Andrew Heaney, Seth Lugo, and Tyler Anderson (since signed by the Angels), all reported as names on Boston's radar, and the Sox also have interest in re-signing two of their own free agents in Nathan Eovaldi and Rich Hill. … The Red Sox haven't had much progress in trying to lock up Bogaerts or Rafael Devers to new contracts, and the team's desire to reset their tax bill in 2020 was one of the factors behind trading Mookie Betts to the Dodgers.
2022-23 Top 50 Free Agents With Predictions
2022/11/mlb-trade-rumors-top-50-free-agents-predictions-2022-23.htmlThere are dozens of free agents who'll sign Major League contracts that did not make the list -- a handful who'll surely sign multi-year deals, even. … Obviously, the 2020-21 offseason was dominated by uncertainty and cost-cutting measures on the heels of a pandemic-shortened 2020 season where teams did not receive any attendance revenue.
Michael Conforto Drawing Post-Draft Interest
2022/07/michael-conforto-drawing-post-draft-interest.htmlOn MLBTR's list of top 50 free agents for this past offseason, 49 of them eventually reached deals, with outfielder Michael Conforto being the lone exception. … After an amazing stretch of play from 2017-2020 wherein he hit .265/.369/.495 for a wRC+ of 133, he followed that up with a down year in 2021.
Should The Orioles Rethink Their Trade Deadline Approach?
2022/07/should-the-orioles-rethink-their-trade-deadline-approach.htmlBaltimore has just three impending free agents on the roster. … He's a fan favorite, and his overcoming a 2020 battle with colon cancer makes him one of the sport's easiest players to support.
2022 Top 50 Trade Candidates
2022/07/top-50-trade-mlb-trade-candidates.htmlSeattle, Miami, the Angels and Texas could all find themselves in position to deal away impending free agents while holding onto or perhaps even adding controllable players to help them compete in 2023 and beyond. … The former first-rounder and top prospect plateaued with the Red Sox in 2019 and cratered in 2020, but he had a solid 2021 season and is in the midst of an excellent campaign at the plate.
Offseason In Review: Los Angeles Dodgers
2022/05/offseason-in-review-los-angeles-dodgers-12.htmlLos Angeles was the first team to sign one of MLBTR's top 50 free agents, agreeing to an $8.5MM guarantee with starter Andrew Heaney a few days into the offseason. … He'd been a career-long member of the organization, won the 2020 NL MVP award, and mashed throughout last year's World Series run.