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MLB’s Top 25 Free Agents Still Available, With Signing Predictions

After a flurry of huge signings this month, here is an updated list of the best remaining players on the market.

Sports Illustrated

Derrick Goold: As costs soar, Cardinals must enter race for arms to fill wide-open 2024 rotation

With a major free agent signing that answers a few of the Cardinals’ looming questions this winter, the biggest of which was who their everyday catcher would be in 2023, the club must turn a prudent eye to the horizon and the rising unknown that’s about to be glaring.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bill Madden: It’s contract madness from MLB owners at winter meetings in ‘age of irrationality’

NEW YORK — Sometime around the midpoint of the baseball owners’ nearly two billion dollar spending spree at the winter meetings in San Diego this week, Billy Eppler got off the phone in the Mets war room and announced to his troops that the earth had just shifted.

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David Murphy: Trea Turner is the latest tribute to John Middleton’s desire to win

PHILADELPHIA — Trea Turner owned the stage, but the venue belonged to the man wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a brown blazer with elbow patches. John Middleton went out of his way to make this something other than his day. But that’s what it was.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Willson Contreras Pushes Cardinals Closer to World Series Contention

A few hours after Aaron Judge re-signed with the Yankees on Wednesday morning, and before A.J. Preller added Xander Bogaerts at the end of the night in his latest push to field an entire roster of shortstops, the Cardinals agreed to a five-year, $87.5 million contract with ...

Sports Illustrated

Cubs leave winter meetings happy with signings, still active on market

Only two free-agent shortstops remain among this winter’s Four.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Mets Just Keep on Spending—but They Shouldn’t Be Done Yet

New York re-signed Brandon Nimmo and grabbed David Robertson off the open market, and it could still do more.

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The Phillies won over their ‘No. 1 target’ Trea Turner without offering him the most money

Last month — nobody seems to recall the exact date, but it was between the end of the World Series and Thanksgiving — Dave Dombrowski, Sam Fuld, and Rob Thomson flew to Florida, sat down at Trea and Kristen Turner’s dinner table, and talked.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Phillies dominated the winter meetings, and showed they plan on more Red Octobers

SAN DIEGO — As Dave Dombrowski packed his garment bag Wednesday and checked out of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, he might have considered borrowing a line from Michael Corleone near the end of The Godfather.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

David Murphy: Breaking down the Phillies’ signings of Taijuan Walker and Matt Strahm, and what they do next

Those annoying dinging sounds that you hear are the push alerts from John Middleton’s online banking apps. Two more transactions have gone through. Taijuan Walker, Matt Strahm ... welcome to the club, and stay tuned.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Aaron Judge’s New Contract Ranks Third in MLB

With Wednesday’s contract news, here’s where the slugger ranks in the league.

Sports Illustrated

‘These are the guys we want, so go get them’: How owner John Middleton pushed the Phillies to land Trea Turner

SAN DIEGO — Four years ago, John Middleton gassed up his private jet — the white Bombardier Challenger with a Phillies “P” on the tail — and flew to Las Vegas twice to meet with Bryce Harper and help close the largest deal in franchise history.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Michael Cunningham: Mets, Phillies spend big. Will Braves do same for Dansby Swanson?

The Phillies committed $300 million to shortstop Trea Turner. The Mets are set to splurge on ace pitcher Justin Verlander. Meanwhile, the Braves have signed no free agents of note while their top priority, shortstop Dansby Swanson, remains on the market.

Tribune News Service

Phillies, Taijuan Walker Agree to Four-Year Contract, per Report

The free-agent pitcher is reportedly headed to join the National League champs.

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Report: Turner Turned Down $342 Million Offer From Padres

The shortstop signed for $300 million with the Phillies on Monday.

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | The 2022 Sportsperson of the Year Is …

Congratulations to Stephen Curry.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

David Murphy: With a hefty contract for Trea Turner, the Phillies are all in on the next five seasons

The biggest question was when. You can’t often say that about $300 million contracts. But Trea Turner’s was one of them. That’s how much sense he made for the Phillies. And if the Phillies were willing to pay him $27.5 million a year through his 40th birthday, well, they certainly…

Chicago Sun-Times

Phillies, shortstop Trea Turner strike $300 million deal; your move, Cubs

As of late Monday, top shortstops Carlos Correa, Xander Bogaerts and Dansby Swanson were still available.

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2022 MLB Free Agency Tracker: Turner, Verlander Headline Signings

As the free agency period continues to unfold, check out this list for noteworthy transactions around the league.

Sports Illustrated

What We’re Hearing on Day 1 at the Winter Meetings

The shortstop market is heating up. Plus, notes on Aaron Judge, the Angels and signing older players to long-term deals.

Sports Illustrated

Trea Turner and the Phillies Are a Perfect Match

Philadelphia signed one of MLB’s most electric players and underscored its commitment to winning, no matter the cost.

Tribune News Service

Five things to keep in mind about the Braves as offseason progresses

SAN DIEGO — Jacob deGrom chose Texas. Trea Turner is headed to Philadelphia. Justin Verlander joined the Mets.

Tribune News Service

Aaron Judge and Carlos Rodon still in play for the Yankees on the first day of Winter Meetings

With the Winter Meetings happening in person for the first time since 2019, Major League Baseball’s executives got going right away on Monday.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Phillies, Trea Turner agree on 11-year, $300 million contract, source says

SAN DIEGO — The Phillies got their man.

The Guardian - US

Mets and Phillies strike big deals as Verlander and Turner reportedly head to NL East

The NL East arms race heated up on Monday with the Mets and Phillies understood to have made major free-agent signings

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