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Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports While trying again on the free agent signings I lined final winter, I observed a little bit of a sample. On the identical day Aaron Judge got here to phrases on a nine-year, $360 million take care of the Yankees, I wrote about Miguel Castro. On the identical day Brandon Nimmo agreed to a $162 million take care of the Mets, I wrote about Matt Strahm. On the identical day Yu Darvish and Bo Bichette signed contract extensions, I wrote about Pierce Johnson and Scott McGough. While the remainder of the baseball world was targeted on All-Stars and mega-million-dollar contracts, I discovered myself drawn to mid-tier relievers on small-scale offers. We’re not farming for clicks right here at FanGraphs, and I’m grateful to write down for a web site the place I...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The New York Yankees made a uncommon commerce with the rival Boston Red Sox, buying outfielder Alex Verdugo on Tuesday night time for right-handers Greg Weissert, Richard Fitts and Nicholas Judice. ...

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Back in July, I dove into the pulled fly ball successes of Cody Bellinger and Isaac Paredes that led to them outperforming their Statcast anticipated statistics. Since then, I’ve paid specific consideration to Bellinger. Much of that is because of his fascinating free-agency case. His distinctive profile relative to earlier free brokers with this degree of efficiency is fascinating. On the floor, 4.1 WAR and 134 wRC+ at age 27 from an athletic multi-positional participant is usually deserving of a $150 million-plus contract. But Bellinger isn’t a typical participant; the query of sustainability looms because of the nature of his efficiency, most notably highlighted by a Tenth-percentile arduous hit price. Doubting the stickiness of his efficiency is totall...

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Phillies have signed supervisor Rob Thomson to a one-year contract extension by way of the 2025 season after he led the workforce to 2 straight journeys to the NL Championship Series. ...

The St. Louis Cardinals have been one in all baseball’s most disappointing groups in 2023. Favored to win the NL Central, they as an alternative completed with simply 71 wins and missed the playoffs for the primary time since 2018. Moreover, the shedding document was wholly unfamiliar territory. Since John Mozeliak was appointed GM previous to the 2008 season (his title is now President of Baseball Operations), the Cardinals had had nothing however profitable information underneath his watch. They reached the postseason in 10 of these seasons and twice superior to the World Series, capturing the franchise’s eleventh modern-era title in 2011. To say that St. Louis has had sustained success underneath Mozeliak could be stating the plain. Ditto that “The Cardinals Way” — the catchphrase ...

Washington Nationals basic supervisor Mike Rizzo is heading to Nashville this weekend. He’s not going there to see the Grand Ole Opry. The Major Lea...

Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports The following article is a part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing take a look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2024 Hall of Fame poll. For an in depth introduction to this yr’s poll, and different candidates within the sequence, use the instrument above; an introduction to JAWS could be discovered right here. For a tentative schedule and an opportunity to fill out a Hall of Fame poll for our crowdsourcing challenge, see right here. All WAR figures discuss with the Baseball-Reference model until in any other case indicated. Joe Mauer was certainly one of baseball’s biggest hometown-boy-makes-good tales. A former No. 1 general pick of Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2001, he spent the whole lot of his 15-year profession with the Twins. Despi...

The managers room within the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has 22 members now. It is more than likely about to get much more crowded. Du...

Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports This submit is a part of a collection protecting the 2024 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Managers/Executives/Umpires poll, protecting candidates in these classes who made their biggest influence from 1980 to the current. For an introduction to the poll, see right here. The eight candidates will likely be voted upon on the Winter Meetings in Nashville on December 3, and anybody receiving at the least 75% of the vote from the 16 committee members will likely be inducted in Cooperstown on July 21, 2024 together with any candidates elected by the BBWAA. 2024 Contemporary Baseball Candidates: Umpires Ed Montague and Joe West Umpire Seasons Yrs G Eject Home WC DS LCS WS Ed Montague NL, 1974, ’76–99; ML, 2000–09 35 4369 72 1099 0 25 40 34 ...

The St. Louis Cardinals made their greatest splash but in an try to revamp their lackluster rotation, agreeing with AL Cy Young runner-up Sonny Gray on a three-year contract Monday to anchor their workers heading into subsequent season. ...