2023-24 Top 50 Free Agents With Predictions
2023/11/2023-24-top-50-free-agents-with-predictions.htmlMLB Trade Rumors is proud to present our 18th annual Top 50 Free Agents list! These are the top 50 MLB free agents by our estimation of their earning power. … His return to the mound in the shortened 2020 campaign was marred by an inability to throw strikes.
MLB Mailbag: Red Sox, Cubs, Adames, Adell
2024/09/mlb-mailbag-red-sox-cubs-adames-adell.htmlAlso curious as to if Duran was offered as trade, what type of starting pitching would he command? As for free agents - I don't think the Sox will bring back any of them. … In their history, the Brewers have done one contract of that size, Christian Yelich's March 2020 extension for $188.5MM.
Cardinals Acquire Fedde, Pham; Dodgers Acquire Edman, Kopech In Three-Team Deal With White Sox
2024/07/white-sox-trade-erick-fedde-cardinals-tommy-edman-dodgers.htmlJoining Vargas in the White Sox' system will be Albertus and Perez: both 19-year-old infielders who signed with the Dodgers as international free agents in 2022 (Albertus out of Aruba, Perez out of the Dominican Republic). … The 26-year-old signed with the Cards as an undrafted free agent after the truncated five-round draft in 2020.
MLB Mailbag: Reds, Red Sox, Skubal, Alonso, Prospects, Dodgers, Cubs, Diaz
2024/07/mlb-mailbag-reds-red-sox-skubal-alonso-prospects-dodgers-cubs-diaz.htmlSims, Wilson and Farmer are free agents at season's end. … But they were a win-now club who'd fallen short in '19 and were setting their sights on a run in 2020.
Top 50 Trade Candidates For The 2024 MLB Trade Deadline
2024/07/top-50-trade-candidates-mlb-trade-deadline-2024.htmlColorado's catching duo are both impending free agents. … The former first-round pick skipped the minors entirely and debuted as a reliever late in the 2020 season, just months after being drafted 11th overall out of the University of Tennessee.
New York Notes: Belt, Martinez, Cole
2024/04/new-york-notes-belt-martinez-cole.htmlThat included a fantastic 146 wRC+ against right-handed pitching, the eleventh-best figure among all qualified hitters last year which trailed only Shohei Ohtani among this winter's free agents. … The performance was more or less par for the course for Belt, who's hit .258/.369/.503 since the start of the 2020 season and is a career .261/.357/.460 hitter for his career.
Cubs Sign Hector Neris
2024/01/cubs-sign-hector-neris.htmlNeris ranked 46th on our list of the winter's top 50 free agents. … Neris has a league-best 307 appearances since the start of the 2019 season, and a stint on the COVID-related injury list in 2020 marks the only time Neris has ever appeared on the IL during his big league career.
Boras Clients Who Signed After January In Previous Offseasons
2024/01/boras-clients-who-signed-after-january-in-previous-offseasons.html19 of MLBTR's Top 50 Free Agents still don't have agreements in place for 2024, along with many players who weren't on that list. … February of 2020
Mets, Phillies Interested In Robert Stephenson
2024/01/mets-phillies-interested-in-robert-stephenson.htmlAt the start of the offseason, MLBTR put Stephenson in the #27 slot on the annual Top 50 Free Agents post with a prediction of a four-year, $36MM contract. … He had a 3.76 ERA with the Reds in 2019, had a rough time in the shortened 2020 season, then rebounded with a 3.13 ERA for the Rockies in 2021.
Dodgers Sign Teoscar Hernandez
2024/01/dodgers-to-sign-teoscar-hernandez.htmlMLB Trade Rumors ranked Hernandez 12th on our list of the winter's top 50 free agents and projected him for a four-year, $80MM deal, under the logic that the offseason's lack of premium bats would still lead to a big contract for Hernandez even in the wake of an underwhelming 2023 campaign. … While he still went yard 26 times, Hernandez batted only .258/.305/.435 over 678 plate appearances, and his 105 wRC+ was well below his 133 wRC+ from 2020-22.
Free Agent Profile: Mike Clevinger
2024/01/free-agent-profile-mike-clevinger.htmlMLBTR projected Clevinger for a two-year, $26MM deal on our annual Top 50 MLB free agents list, where he placed 30th. … Dominant as Clevinger was, the right-hander was shipped from Cleveland to San Diego at the 2020 trade deadline and wound up requiring Tommy John surgery just four starts into his tenure with the Padres.
Free Agent Profile: Joc Pederson
2023/12/free-agent-profile-joc-pederson.htmlTwenty-two of MLBTR's Top 50 Free Agents have signed this winter, and 16 of those (including Shohei Ohtani) have been pitchers. … After a couple of down years in 2020 and '21, the lefty slugger bounced all the way back in '22, putting up the best offensive numbers of his career.
Free Agent Faceoff: Jorge Soler/J.D. Martinez
2023/12/free-agent-faceoff-jorge-soler-j-d-martinez.htmlBoth have flashed 40-homer power in their careers previously, and both project for a similar guarantee this offseason: in our annual Top 50 MLB free agents list, MLBTR projected Soler for three years and $45MM guaranteed while Martinez projected for two years and $40MM. … Soler struck out at a career 27.9% clip through the end of the shortened 2020 season, while Martinez sported a strikeout rate of 24.2%.
Reds Sign Frankie Montas
2024/01/reds-to-sign-frankie-montas.htmlA trade has always seemed to be the likeliest route for pitching help given Cincinnati's wealth of minor league depth, yet the Reds have also been linked to such free agents as Seth Lugo, Yariel Rodriguez, and old friend Sonny Gray. … He also struggled during the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign before delivering his first full top-tier season in 2021, with a 3.37 ERA and solidly above-average strikeout and walk rates over 187 innings.
Blue Jays Have Reportedly “Taken The Lead” In Yariel Rodriguez Sweepstakes
2023/12/blue-jays-have-reportedly-taken-the-lead-in-yariel-rodriguez-sweepstakes.htmlAfter missing out on top free agents Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto earlier this month, the Blue Jays have ramped up activity at the lower levels of the market of late by re-signing center fielder Kevin Kiermaier to a one-year pact and landing utility man Isiah Kiner-Falefa on a two-year deal in recent days. … Rodriguez's professional career began in Cuba during the 2015-16 season, and he spent six seasons pitching primarily as a starter to solid results in his home country before joining the Dragons ahead of the 2020 campaign.
Red Sox Reportedly Interested In Robert Stephenson, Amed Rosario
2023/12/red-sox-reportedly-interested-in-robert-stephenson-amed-rosario.htmlRosario clocked in as the 39th free agent on MLBTR's annual Top 50 MLB free agents list, where we projected him for a two-year, $18MM deal. … The righty posted a 3.76 ERA (125 ERA+) and a 3.63 FIP in his first season as a full-time reliever, and after being limited to just ten innings of work during the shortened 2020 season was traded to Colorado in exchange for Jeff Hoffman.
Dodgers Remain Interested In Teoscar Hernandez
2023/12/dodgers-remain-interested-in-teoscar-hernandez.htmlhas been by far the busiest club of the offseason to this point as they've landed top free agents Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto while also swinging a trade for and extending right-hander Tyler Glasnow. … Hernandez, as a career 117 wRC+ hitter who slashed a whopping .283/.333/.519 from 2020-22, could prove to be a quality middle of the order bat for LA even after a down season in 2023.
Astros, Blue Jays, Pirates, Yankees Continue To Be Interested In Yariel Rodriguez
2023/12/astros-blue-jays-pirates-yankees-continue-to-be-interested-in-yariel-rodriguez.htmlHowever, Rodriguez doesn't turn 27 until March, and there is enough intrigue in his upside as a starter that MLBTR ranked him 28th on our list of the offseason's top 50 free agents, and projected him for a four-year, $32MM contract. … Rodriguez is something of a wild card in the free agent pitching market, given that he has spent most of his career pitching in Cuba, he worked mostly out of the bullpen with the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball from 2020-22, and he didn't pitch at all in 2023 (apart from the World Baseball Classic) since he sat out the NPB season trying to get released from his contract with the Dragons.
Red Sox, Angels Reportedly Interested In Teoscar Hernandez
2023/12/red-sox-angels-reportedly-interested-in-teoscar-hernandez.htmlWith a stable, above-average offensive floor and a tantalizing, All Star-caliber ceiling, Hernandez ranked 12th on MLBTR's annual Top 50 MLB free agents list, where we projected him for a four-year, $80MM contract. … With that being said, the slugger still managed to crush 26 home runs last season and entered 2023 with a whopping .283/.333/.519 slash line since the start of the 2020 campaign.
Diamondbacks Re-Sign Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
2023/12/diamondbacks-to-sign-lourdes-gurriel-jr.htmlThe total guarantee of $42MM clocked in below the four-year, $54MM contract MLBTR projected for Gurriel when placing him 14th on our annual Top 50 MLB free agents list, though it's worth noting that the average annual value of the deal is, by contrast, higher than we projected. … Since becoming an everyday player during the shortened 2020 season, Gurriel has slashed .279/.326/.456 with a 112 wRC+.
Yankees Interested In Shota Imanaga
2023/12/yankees-interested-in-shota-imanaga.htmlFor instance, the Yokohama BayStars (Imanaga's NPB team) would receive a $13.875MM release fee if the lefty signed the five-year, $85MM deal predicted in MLBTR's top 50 free agents list. … Imanaga has a 3.18 ERA over 1002 2/3 career innings for the BayStars, with excellent control, very good strikeout numbers, and quite a bit of durability (with the exception of a shoulder surgery in 2020).
Reds Sign Jeimer Candelario To Three-Year Deal
2023/12/reds-agree-to-deal-with-jeimer-candelario.htmlThat performance has positioned him nicely as one of the offseason's top positional free agents. … Candelario bounced back with the Tigers both in 2020 and 2021, but Detroit cut him loose after a down year in 2022, wherein he posted a .217/.272/.361 slash in 467 plate appearances.
Dodgers, Cubs, Angels Among Clubs Interested In Robert Stephenson
2023/11/dodgers-cubs-angels-among-clubs-interested-in-robert-stephenson.htmlStephenson, 31 in February, was one of the lesser known names on MLBTR's list of the Top 50 Free Agents published earlier this month, where Stephenson was pegged for a four-year, $36MM deal. … But in 2020, he missed roughly a month due to a mid-back strain and allowed 11 earned runs in the 10 innings he was able to pitch in the shortened season.
Cardinals Sign Sonny Gray To Three-Year Deal
2023/11/cardinals-expected-to-finalize-deal-with-sonny-gray.htmlGray was among the top free agent starters this winter, coming in at the #9 spot of MLBTR's Top 50 MLB free agents list with a projected four-year, $90MM contract. … The deal will be the first free agent contract of Gray's 11-year major league career, as the 18th overall pick of the 2011 draft signed an extension with the Reds upon being traded to Cincinnati in early 2019 that covered the 2020-22 seasons, with a team option for 2023.
Details On The Dodgers’ And Braves’ Pursuits Of Aaron Nola
2023/11/details-on-the-dodgers-and-braves-pursuit-of-aaron-nola.htmlNaturally it isn't at all surprising that Nola drew such high-dollar interest, given his status as one of the top free agents available in this offseason's market. … Marcell Ozuna's four-year, $65MM deal from the 2020-21 is far and away the biggest contract Anthopoulos has given to a free agent, and Nola's contact would've drastically exceeded Ozuna's number.
