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An AL Central repeat? 300 home runs again? What adding Josh Donaldson brings to the Twins
David Schoenfield: I get that the Twins’ lineup is loaded, coming off a season when they mashed a record 307 home runs — and now they’ve added Donaldson, giving them six hitters who hit more than 30 home runs last year. It’s going to be fun to watch them hit. You know what though? It’s […]
Continue readingDansby Swanson, Mike Foltynewicz among 6 reaching deals with Braves
Swanson agreed at $3.15 million and Foltynewicz at $6,425,000. Also reaching deals were outfielder Adam Duvall ($3.25 million), right-hander Luke Jackson ($1,825,000), infielder Johan Camargo ($1.7 million) and left-hander Grant Dayton ($655,000). The team did not reach an agreement and now faces arbitration with right-hander Shane Greene, who was 0-1 with a 4.01 ERA in […]
Continue readingThe best and worst free-agent signing of the decade for all 30 MLB teams
What we can do is check back on the 2010s on how free agency worked — or didn’t work — for all 30 franchises. For each team we’ll list the total dollars committed in free agency (starting with new contracts for the 2010 season, not including money carried over from previous deals), where they ranked […]
Continue readingPredicting where MLB’s top remaining free agents will sign
Last week, Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg and Anthony Rendon agreed to free-agent deals worth a combined $814 million. Yes, baseball has come a long way from the first free-agent class in the 1976-77 offseason, when an infielder named Paul Dade signed with the Cleveland Indians and, Sports Illustrated later reported, figured he could “start to […]
Continue readingWhy a Cubs-Braves Kris Bryant trade makes sense now that Anthony Rendon has signed
“The chatter around Bryant has been steady,” one rival executive said this week at the winter meetings. The Cubs probably will have to wait in line until one more free agent, Josh Donaldson, comes off the board. That will leave Bryant as an attractive chip who will cost limited dollars, though top prospects would undoubtedly […]
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