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LATEST FREE AGENT & TRADE RUMORS

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We're keeping track of all the latest free agent and trade rumors.

Oct. 31: Braves swap Soler for Canning in trade with Angels

The Braves and Angels completed a trade on the first day of the MLB offseason, with Atlanta sending outfielder Jorge Soler to the Halos for pitcher Griffin Canning.

The acquisition of Soler will beef up a Halos lineup that tied for 22nd in homers (165) and ranked 28th in OPS (.671) this past season. Soler has two years left on the three-year, $42 million deal he signed with the Giants last offseason. San Francisco dealt him to Atlanta prior to the Trade Deadline.

The 32-year-old slugger finished the season with 21 homers and a .780 OPS over 142 games overall, producing nine homers and an .849 OPS after the trade to the Braves.

Soler was expendable for a Braves team that will get back Ronald Acuña Jr. in 2025. After winning the NL MVP Award in 2023, Acuña missed much of 2024 while recovering from a torn ACL in his left knee.

Canning gives the Braves some rotation depth on the same day they saw Max Fried and Charlie Morton enter free agency. The trade also cleared significant money off Atlanta’s books, perhaps opening up more space for the club to re-sign Fried or a comparable starter.

Oct. 31: Report: Soto eyeing $700M deal; many clubs already showing interest

Soto has been a free agent for less than 24 hours, but a bunch of teams have already been in contact with him, according to MLB Network insider Jon Heyman.

Heyman writes in the New York Post that eight teams checked in with Soto in the hours after he and the Yankees lost to the Dodgers in World Series Game 5 on Wednesday. By Thursday morning, the number of interested clubs was up to 11. One is reportedly the Mets.

It's unclear how many will meet Soto's reported asking price. Per Heyman, $700 million -- or more -- is seen as Soto's "new magic number." That would match the total value of Shohei Ohtani's contract with the Dodgers, but much of that money is deferred, lowering the deal's present-day value. Soto, conversely, is looking for a "solid" $700 million, according to Heyman.

You can follow all the latest Soto rumors here.

Oct. 31: 2024-25 free-agent class

Juan Soto, Corbin Burnes, Pete Alonso, Alex Bregman, Willy Adames and Max Fried are among the top players who reached free agency after the 2024 World Series.

You can check out the full list of upcoming free agents here. And for a breakdown of each team's pending free agents, click here.

Oct. 31: 2025 option decisions

The deadline by which players and teams must make option decisions for the 2025 season comes just five days after the conclusion of the World Series. This includes opt-outs, player options, club options and mutual options.

Blake Snell, Cody Bellinger, Sean Manaea, Nathan Eovaldi and Michael Wacha are some of the notable players with 2025 contract options who could join this year's free-agent class. You can find a full list of players with 2025 options here.

Oct. 31: Qualifying-offer candidates

Teams can extend a qualifying offer to select free agents each offseason. Players who accept are signed to a one-year deal for the next season at the designated value (set at $21.05 million for 2025). Those who don't accept remain free agents, and if a new team signs them, their old team receives Draft pick compensation.

Click here for a breakdown of the pending free agents who could receive qualifying offers this offseason, along with a list of notable players who aren’t eligible for a QO and information on the Draft compensation tied to the QO.