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Jacob Stallings Declines Mutual Option With Rockies

By Steve Adams | November 4, 2024 at 7:38pm CDT

The Major League Baseball Players Association announced a list of 30 players who reached free agency today after having their option decisions resolved, and Rockies catcher Jacob Stallings was included among them. Colorado hasn’t announced a decision regarding Stallings’ mutual option, but MLBTR has learned that he declined his end of the option. Mutual options typically require the player to decide first, and that was the case in this instance. He’ll receive a $500K buyout and head back to the open market.

Stallings, 34, hit well in Colorado this season, turning in a .263/.357/.453 slash (114 wRC+) with a career-best nine homers in 281 plate appearances. Given that his mutual option was valued at a modest $1.5MM (with that $500K buyout), he surely feels he can top the net $1MM in free agency. The two sides have held mutual interest in a reunion for next season but have not yet come to terms on a new contract.

The 2024 season was Stallings’ first in Colorado. He’d spent the prior two campaigns in Miami and the first six years of his big league career in Pittsburgh. He won a Gold Glove with the Pirates in 2021 and was for a couple seasons regarded as one of the sport’s premier defensive backstops. His defensive grades have dwindled in recent years, due in no small part to a stark downturn in his framing grades. Stallings’ caught-stealing rates dropped off in his two years with Miami, but he was roughly league-average in that regard with the Rox (21% to the league-average 20%). Statcast rates him as one of the best in the sport when it comes to blocking balls in the dirt, listing him fourth out of 66 qualified catchers.

Stallings has posted solid offensive numbers in three of the past five seasons, with his two years in Miami standing as the exception. He draws plenty of walks (9.6% this past season) and strikes out at a roughly league-average rate (23.1%). That profile, coupled with his age, isn’t necessarily going to land him a lucrative long-term pact, but Stallings should find a one-year deal at a higher rate than last year’s $2MM base salary and could feasibly find some two-year offers. It’s a generally thin free agent class for catching help, with Danny Jansen, Carson Kelly and Kyle Higashioka standing as his primary competition on the open market.

As previously noted, the Rockies themselves figure to be among his suitors. Top prospect Drew Romo got his first taste of the majors in 2024 but hit poorly in a sample of 53 plate appearances. Romo had a solid offensive showing in Triple-A but only recently turned 23 and could require some more seasoning in the upper minors. Colorado also has utilityman Hunter Goodman as an option behind the plate, but he spent more time in the outfield than behind the plate and didn’t hit well either in his 224 plate appearances. There are no other catchers on the Rockies’ 40-man roster, so it stands to reason that whether it’s Stallings or another veteran, they’ll be on the hunt for some depth between now and spring training.

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  1. The Baseball Fan

    8 months ago

    One of the least expected solid seasons here. 1.7 WAR for a catcher might mean he gets a solid major league deal. 1 year 5 mil with incentives? Tigers, Marlins, Padres come to mind

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    • AHH-Rox

      8 months ago

      Rockies also come to mind, unless they think Hunter Goodman has a future as a catcher. Even then, a veteran to mentor Romo and Goodman makes some sense.

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      • Ski to Coors

        8 months ago

        Rockies are going cheap and will likely be outbid. Triple crown of 100 loss seasons incoming. Believe we are eligible for a lottery pick in 2026 too.

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    • stymeedone

      8 months ago

      I don’t see the Tigers looking for catching at the major league level. Dingler has the back up job to Rogers. I can see AAA depth being added, as insurance, but they expect good things from Dingler and he hit well at Toledo and is first rate defensively. Time to give him his chance.

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  2. Acoss1331

    8 months ago

    Jacob is looking for maybe two years 10-12 million deal. 1 million is too little considering the pretty good season he just had.

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  3. Arnold Ziffel

    8 months ago

    Good, he sucks, get a younger guy.

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  4. sadmarinersfan

    8 months ago

    How much was the option?

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