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Camden Chat

Orioles position preview: Outfield

Photo by Scott Taetsch/ There hasn’t been nearly as much change here as anticipated, and that might be a good thing for 2024. Heading into the offseason, many speculated that changes could be coming to the Orioles’ outfield. The old guard of Cedric Mullins, Austin Hays, and Anthony Santander was getting more expensive and inching closer to free agency. Meanwhile, a batch of talented youngsters appeared ready to burst onto the big league scene and take on everyday roles. Maybe it was time to pass the torch. Instead, O’s GM Mike Elias stood firm. Rather than...

New York Post

Jordan Montgomery agrees to contract with Diamondbacks to end long free agency

Jordan Montgomery has finally finally found a new home — and it's not New York.

www.thegoodphight.com

2024 season preview: Analysis of offseason moves across the National League East

Chris Sale is one of the bigger names to join the East in 2024 | Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Not a lot of marquee additions to the division this year The Phillies haven’t had the most exciting offseason, mostly concentrating on retaining or extending their own players rather than bringing in new players via free agency or the trade market. If you were frustrated by that lack of action and were concerned that their division rivals have been busy closing the gap between them - or in the case of the Braves, widening the gap (in the regular season, at least) - I have...

Royals Review

What to know about Royals Opening Day

Photo by LG Patterson/MLB Photos via Baseball begins Thursday! Baseball season is back and Royals fans have reason to be hopeful for the first time in several years with a legit MVP candidate in Bobby Witt Jr., a Cy Young Award candidate in Cole Ragans, and one of the bigger spending sprees in free agency this off-season. The Royals will begin the 2024 season on Thursday, March 28 at 3:10 CT against the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium. Here’s what you need to know about Opening Day. Team Workout First, there will be a team workout open to the public at Kauffman...

Pinstripe Alley

2024 Preview: Rangers

Photo by Christian Petersen/ The defending World Series champs look to run it back in the West. We, as fans of baseball, should be happy about what the Texas Rangers did in 2023. Over the few seasons leading up to their World Series win, they were not exactly in the traditional win-now position, but there were good players available in free agency, so they paid some money, and guess what? Those very same players helped lead them to the franchise’s first World Series victory in just a few seasons. The Rangers roster in 2024 is mostly the same as the one that hoisted...

Pinstripe Alley

Yankees 2024 Season Preview: Jorbit Vivas

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Although Vivas is going to start the season in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, with Torres pending free agency, he has an opportunity to prove as a future keystone option. There may be a job opening for the Yankees’ second base position next offseason. If the Yankees opt to replace Gleyber Torres with a cost-controlled alternative, Oswald Peraza would be considered the frontrunner for the in-house replacement at the moment — provided he gets closer to meeting expectations as a prospect in 2024. Another intriguing internal candidate to...

DodgerBlue.com

Clayton Kershaw: Free Agency For 2024 Presented First ‘Big Decision’

The Los Angeles Dodgers re-signing Clayton Kershaw was one of their final pieces to an otherworldly...

Over the Monster

Things We’re Excited for AND Terrified of in 2024: Cooper Criswell, As an Entity

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/ And we’re not sure which one we should be, if either. A few short months ago, we were all so full of hope, even if we knew it might be fleeting. There were so many potential options in free agency to shore up the rotation. Even if the options in question didn’t set the world on fire, there were certainly ways to improve a pitching staff that survived a 4.52 ERA last season... and that’s if 78 wins in a season can be considered surviving. The team dealt with so many injuries in the pitching rotation last year that most of...

Pinstripe Alley

2024 Preview: Cardinals

Photo by Jim McIsaac/ Do Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado have enough left in the tank to lead a revival in St. Louis? The 2023 St. Louis Cardinals had cause for optimism. They were coming off a NL Central division title and their fourth-straight postseason appearance, maintaining their reputation as one of the league’s best-run franchises. They signed three-time All Star backstop Willson Contreras away from their arch rivals, the Cubs, in free agency to replace franchise icon Yadier Molina. There was every indication that the good times would continue to roll in...

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

NL Central Preview: Cardinals, Cubs and Reds are at the front of a wide-open division

The St. Louis Cardinals signed Sonny Gray, Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson. The Chicago Cubs added Shota Imanaga and Héctor Neris. Even the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates jumped into free agency.

Amazin Avenue

Adam Ottavino is back in the Mets’ bullpen in 2024

Photo by Alex Slitz/ Ottavino is entering his age-38 season. Back at the start of this offseason, Adam Ottavino chose to decline his option to stay with the Mets on a $6.75 million salary for the 2024 season. After testing free agency, the 38-year-old reliever ended up signing back with the Mets on a one-year, $4.5 million deal. In between those decisions, he also made some appearances on SNY and expressed concerns about what the Mets were trying to accomplish this year along with his desire to play for a contender. It was all a bit weird. Here we are, though, with...

Over the Monster

What if One of the Big Three Prospects Stalls?

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/ The Red Sox are putting a lot of pressure on the notoriously unpredictable development of prospects For the Boston Red Sox, this offseason devolved from “full throttle” to “pursue trade markets and free agency to have more consistent starting pitching” to “pressing (sic) all levers,” and finally to a payroll that will “probably be lower.” This eventually led to Craig Breslow uttering the following: “And it’s going to require aggressive player development in the minor leagues and the major leagues so guys that...

The Crawfish Boxes

Astros Crawfish Boil

Chas McCormick | Photo by Megan Briggs/ Welcome to the Wednesday Boil. Houston Astros News Verlander (shoulder) needs time to build strength, will open season on IL Small-town guy Trey Cabbage dreaming big with Astros this spring (Houston Chronicle) Here’s how Astros next extension candidate might actually catch you by surprise (Sportsmap Houston) We have the depth’: Analyzing Astros’ rotation after JV injury Astros’ Alex Bregman could be at the center of uptick in Mets-Yankees free agency battles AL West News Blarts — Rangers spring training postcard: The...

Purple Row

State of the Position, 2024: First Base

Photo by John E. Moore III/ Kris Bryant is projected to start at first every day, but those plans could still change One year ago, our State of the Position article for first base was titled “The Rockies Have A Traffic Jam at First Base.” Entering the 2023 season, the Colorado Rockies had C.J. Cron ready to man the position until he was either traded or departed via free agency. When he was traded to the Los Angeles Angels in July, the plan of succession seemed fairly simple. However, as has been the case for a few seasons now, the Rockies once again find...

Amazin Avenue

Flushing is Burning: Spring Has Sprung, I Guess

Spring Training games have begun, and they’re fine! Grace is back with actual baseball games to discuss! First, she talks the Mets first few Spring Training games, how they’ve looked and what could possibly be ahead. She laments the participation of Murphy in the booth but is resigned to the fact that he will just be in the Mets orbit until the end of time. And she touches on the Steve Cohen’s recent remarks about Pete Alonso’s free agency. Then, she generally discusses the state of baseball, with the controversy around Scott Boras and his clients this offseason. His...

New York Post

Astros’ Alex Bregman could be at the center of uptick in Mets-Yankees free agency battles

For most of the nearly half century of major league free agency, the New York teams have avoided each other on that financial battlefield until both almost pulled out all the stops to not get Yoshinobu Yamamoto this offsesason.

Twinkie Town

Rival Roundup, Vol. 52: Creepin’ Closer

Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports There’s still plenty of free-agency activity to come, but the first week of spring is settling in. The Detroit Tigers will deploy Tarik Skubal to start their season, as we enter the era of official Opening Day starter statements from teams who don’t employ Pablo Lopez. Tarik Skubal is the Opening Day starter, A.J. Hinch announces. #Tigers— Evan Petzold (@EvanPetzold) March 1, 2024 Among the deluge of other off-season organizational changes, the Chicago White Sox are employing a dietician for the first time, at the direction of...

Los Angeles Times

Kiké Hernández bemoans 'shameful' free-agent market, but is grateful for return to Dodgers

Kiké Hernández says being back with the Dodgers "feels like home," but he didn't enjoy the free agency process during an offseason he describes as "weird."

DodgerBlue.com

Kiké Hernández: Dodgers Were Free Agency Decision Over Yankees Because Of Guarantee

With the Boston Red Sox facing a roster crunch at the 2023 trade deadline, it created an opportunity...

Bleed Cubbie Blue

SB Nation Reacts: Fans blame Scott Boras for the free-agent signing delay

Cody Bellinger and his agent, Scott Boras | Paul Sullivan/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via The results of the first 2024 survey are in! Our first SB Nation Reacts survey for the year addressed the question of free agency, why it was delayed so much, and what to do about it. Here are the results: Fans like to blame Scott Boras for a lot of the vagaries of the free-agent market. Let’s be clear that Boras is just doing his job for his clients. This year, though, it seemed as if none of his clients rated the $200...

NESN.com

Latest Blake Snell Free Agency Report Good Sign For Red Sox?

Blake Snell is among a still-solid group of MLB free agents awaiting their next landing spots with spring training already underway. After being named the National League Cy Young Award winner for 2023 for going 14-9 with a 2.25 ERA, it looked as though Snell was booked for a payday. The left-hander, just 31 years […]

MASN: School of Roch

Santander's journey from Rule 5 pick leads him to threshold of free agency

SARASOTA, Fla. – It’s the quieter times or moments off the field that can make Anthony Santander imagine his baseball life away from Baltimore. Never when he’s working out with teammates or joking with them in the clubhouse. Never when he puts on the uniform.The games, whether real or in exhibition form, have his full attention. But he knows that free agency beckons. The 2024 season could be his last with the Orioles, who used the 18th pick in the 2016 Rule 5 draft on a 22-year-old Class A outfielder with a surgically repaired right shoulder.The last selection in the major league phase,...

MLB.com FastCast: Tigers sign Josh Harrison - 2/20/19

The baseball world's attention focuses on Bryce Harper's free agency, plus Josh Harrison agrees to a one-year deal with the Tigers About Major League Baseball: Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic professional sports league in the United Stat

Jerry Remy Previews 2019 Red Sox Season, Talks Health, Free Agency

NESN's Jerry Remy previews the 2019 Boston Red Sox season with Adam Pellerin. They discuss the Sox bullpen, re-signing Nathan Eovaldi and Steve Pearce and Remy gives an update on his health. For more: https://nesn.com/boston-red-sox/

12/17/18 MLB.com FastCast: Machado tours South Side

Manny Machado's free-agency tour starts with the White Sox, plus the Astros near a deal with Michael Brantley and the Mets sign Wilson Ramos About Major League Baseball: Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic professional sports league in the U