With the 2024 season behind us and the Hot Stove ready to burn, we're taking a close look at some of the most prominent players eligible for free agency. Name: Juan Soto Position: Outfielder Team: New York Yankees Age (as of Opening Day 2025): 26 2024 stats: .288/.419/.569, 41 HR,

Thirteen players were tendered a qualifying offer (a one-year, $21.05 million deal for 2025) prior to Monday's deadline. Those players now have until 4 p.m. ET on Nov. 19 to decide whether to accept or decline. Players who accept qualifying offers are signed with their teams for the next season

NEW YORK – Gerrit Cole continues to live his childhood dream each day that he can call himself the ace of the Yankees, a valuable relationship that both he and the club hope to continue through the remainder of his playing career. After triggering a contractual opt-out this past weekend

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SAN ANTONIO -- Executives from all 30 clubs arrived in Texas on Monday for the start of the annual general managers meetings, kicking off the Hot Stove season. Very little official business will take place this week in terms of roster moves, but one very notable situation was resolved shortly

So many sluggers put up big numbers during the 2024 MLB regular season, but only a select few can win a Silver Slugger Award.

The deadline for players and teams to make 2025 option decisions was Monday. This includes opt-outs, player options, club options and mutual options. Here’s a list of players with 2025 options sorted by option type.

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LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers extended outfielder Teoscar Hernández a qualifying offer before Monday’s 2 p.m. PT deadline. Hernández now has until 1 p.m. PT on Nov. 19 to come to a decision, though he is widely expected to decline the offer, which is worth $21.05 million this season. If

SAN ANTONIO – Nine months ago, Matt Arnold made the excruciating decision to trade ace Corbin Burnes, capping an offseason that saw the Brewers lose manager Craig Counsell to the division-rival Cubs. To say the baseball world wasn’t optimistic about the Brewers’ chances in 2024 was an understatement. Arnold, Milwaukee’s

The National Baseball Hall of Fame announced on Monday this year’s ballot for the Era Committee, which will focus on the Classic Baseball Era -- the period prior to 1980, including Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues stars. Dick Allen, Ken Boyer, John Donaldson, Steve Garvey, Dave Parker, Vic Harris, Tommy

The 2024 Rawlings Gold Glove Awards were announced Sunday night on ESPN, with first-timers once again stealing the show. This year’s group of winners featured 14 first-time Gold Glovers, tied with 2022 for the most in a single season. Of course, it should be noted that ‘22 was also the

Here is a position-by-position breakdown of the 2024-25 free-agent class. Players are grouped by position and ranked by their FanGraphs wins above replacement total across 2023-24. Each player's 2025 seasonal age is included in parentheses next to his name.

Right-handed pitcher Nathan Eovaldi declined his 2025 player option with the Rangers on Monday and is now a free agent. Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young said the club still has a lot of interest in bringing back Eovaldi, a Texas native who joined the team on a two-year

Since the qualifying offer was implemented in 2012, 144 players have received the one-year contract offer from their teams, including 13 players following the 2024 season. But through the first 12 years of this system, only 13 players have accepted the offer. Here is a year-by-year breakdown of all the

When Walker Buehler struck out the Yankees’ Alex Verdugo to clinch the World Series title for the Dodgers last Wednesday, the 2024 MLB season came to a close. While there may not be any more big league baseball until next spring, the baseball world has a lot to look forward

NEW YORK -- The Yankees extended a qualifying offer to Juan Soto ahead of the deadline of 5 p.m. ET on Monday, a move that ensures the club would receive a compensatory pick in next year’s MLB Draft should the outfielder sign with another club. Soto is certain to decline

SAN ANTONIO -- As expected, the Orioles’ two most significant free agents received the qualifying offer ahead of Monday’s 5 p.m. ET deadline. Right-hander Corbin Burnes and outfielder Anthony Santander were both extended the $21.05 million qualifying offer, which would serve as a one-year contract for the 2025 season. They

SAN ANTONIO -- Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer had conversations with agent Scott Boras over the past couple of weeks that gave him a sense of what was to come on the Cody Bellinger front. Increasingly, the belief inside Chicago’s front office was that the star outfielder planned

HOUSTON -- As expected, third baseman Alex Bregman was one of a handful of players to receive a qualifying offer Monday. Bregman was the only player given a qualifying offer by the Astros, who are expected to try to retain one of their cornerstone players as he hits free agency

There are prospects who can flash the leather, and then there are these guys: the cream of the crop. Now they own some hardware for defensive excellence. Two Top 100 prospects – including baseball's top overall prospect – headlined the nine-player crop of 2024 Minor League Gold Glove Award winners,

On Oct. 4, 1980, the Tigers beat the Yankees, 7-6, at Yankee Stadium. When Tigers reliever Aurelio López struck out the Yankees’ Roger Holt to end the game, it wasn’t just Game No. 161 of the season in the books for Detroit and New York. It was also the first

The 2024-25 offseason kicks off in earnest this week as the top baseball operations executives gather in San Antonio for the annual General Managers Meetings. Unlike the Winter Meetings, which is a time for clubs and agents to dive headfirst into the task of roster-building for the upcoming season, these

NEW YORK -- Of the 13 players to receive qualifying offers on Monday, three were Mets. That much was no surprise. The Mets have one of the largest free-agent groups in baseball, so it stands to reason that they would also feature the most QOs. A quick primer: The qualifying

MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers declined Colin Rea’s club option, and Frankie Montas declined his half of a mutual option on Monday, bringing into further focus the state of Milwaukee’s starting rotation as baseball’s offseason gets underway. Those were two of a series of moves on a busy day for the