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Thursday is the date for players and teams to exchange salaries for those eligible for arbitration, which serves as a soft deadline of sorts for deals to be struck. All four Dodgers eligible avoided an arbitration hearing by agreeing to one-year deals. Right-hander Brusdar Graterol was ahead of the curve, agreeing to terms on Wednesday […]
From True Blue LA | about 2 months ago | 3 reads
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From Blueshirt Banter | about 2 months ago | 9 reads
Back in November, the Mets non-tendered three pitchers in Max Kranick, Danny Young, and José Castillo, while tendering contracts to six arbitration eligible players. As of today, the team has settled with all of those players, coming to terms on their 2026 contracts and avoiding arbitration hearings. The salaries are as follows, with their 2025 […]
From Amazin' Avenue | about 2 months ago | 5 reads
The Atlanta Braves made a habit out of claiming players off of waivers during the regular season (for obvious reasons) and early on in the offseason as well. There was a bit of a lull (which has spread across most of baseball) but that’s changed today. Earlier this afternoon, the Braves made a move to […]
From Talking Chop | about 2 months ago | 3 reads
Overview This is the fourth year in a row that I have written the final entry into our off-season reviews, and sometimes I wonder why I keep taking the assignment. It’s always the hardest, I feel. For one, you want the article to live up to the ranking. It’s a #1 review, it should read […]
From AZ Snake Pit | about 2 months ago | 3 reads
On Thursday afternoon, nine major league teams, including the Detroit Tigers, terminated their contracts with FanDuel Sports, per Evan Drellich of The Athletic. We’ve seen this show before, of course. FanDuel’s parent group, Main Street Sports, was formerly the Diamond Sports Group. As Diamond went through bankruptcy from 2023-2025, teams terminated their deals with the […]
From Bless You Boys | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
Episode 44 of the Bleacher Nation Cubs Podcast is officially live! In this week’s episode, Brett asks me about how I broke yesterday’s big trade. I tried to say as much as I could without spoiling any sources. I probably said too much. After that, we discuss Edward Cabrera, the pitcher, as well as the impact his presence has on the Cubs both this season and beyond. After the break, in our transaction corner, Brett and I talk about the various free-agent bats still available, specific...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Not to get too in the weeds on a Thursday afternoon, but here’s the deal. As reported by Evan Drellich in The Athletic, the Braves are one of nine teams terminating their existing broadcast contract with FanDuel. Key points: Other than that, stay tuned. But if for some reason you found the idea of FanDuel […]
From Talking Chop | about 2 months ago | 5 reads
Now that the Cubs have finally added their (potential) impact starting pitcher in Edward Cabrera, the obvious question emerges: What’s next for Jed Hoyer and the Cubs? Seeing as the rotation is deep, the bullpen has been (mostly) remade, Owen Caissie was dealt, and Cabrera is set to earn only ~$3.7M in 2026, an even more obvious answer emerges: GO SPEND SOME MONEY ON A BAT. In an article at The Athletic earlier this morning (and then later on his podcast), Ken Rosenthal put the same ...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Rutgers has landed an all-AAC Linebacker in the transfer portal, as former Rice linebacker Ty Morris has decided to commit to the Scarlet Knights. After the losses of Sam Robinson to the portal and Dariel Djabome to graduation, Rutgers needed to replace some production at linebacker in the transfer portal. By landing one of the […]
From On the Banks | about 2 months ago | 1 read
The St. Louis Cardinals have managed to avoid arbitration hearings with all 7 eligible players according to multiple reports today. Derrick Gould of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shared the arbitration news regarding JoJo Romero, Matthew Liberatore and Brendan Donovan. Robert Murray dropped an update on X on Lars Nootbaar. Katie Woo had the scoop on […]
From Viva El Birdos | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
Well, this is some interesting news to come home to. As per the report from Matt Gelb, the team and player are going to meet and that they have already thought about the roster ramifications of an actual agreement. As the Phillies reach a possible inflection point in their offseason, they have scheduled a meeting […]
From The Good Phight | about 2 months ago | 3 reads
This was fun and wild to see, albeit pretty well-caveated when we talk it through. MLB Pipeline spoke with more than 40 executives from across the sport, polling them on a variety of prospect-related questions. In the second part of the series, one of the questions asked who is the most underrated prospect in baseball. Know who appeared tied atop that list? If I tell you it is a Cubs prospect, you’re guessing Jaxon Wiggins, aren’t you? And if I told you that, yes, Wiggins g...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | about 2 months ago | 1 read
The Orioles entered Thursday’s deadline for teams and their arbitration-eligible players to either settle on deals or exchange figures on a path towards an arbitration hearing with 11 players still to settle. When the deadline came and went, they’d arrived on deals with nine out of those 11 players, including two key home-grown players, Gunnar […]
From Camden Chat | about 2 months ago | 6 reads
Thursday is the deadline for teams to reach an agreement with arbitration-eligible players before a hearing is scheduled. The Royals have eight unsigned players eligible for arbitration: They previously reached agreement with Jonathan India last fall for $8 million, James McArthur for $810,000, and signed Maikel Garcia to a five-year, $57.5 million extension. If a […]
From Royals Review | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
Today is the deadline for MLB teams to come to agreements with their arbitration-eligible players before a hearing might be scheduled. Throughout the day, numerous players will come to agreements with clubs on their salaries for 2026. Both teams and players are generally incentivized to make deals, as arbitration hearings can get ugly sometimes. The […]
From Purple Row | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Two of the biggest names on the Nationals have avoided arbitration and have come to terms on deals for the 2026 season. Paul Toboni was able to avoid arbitration with both CJ Abrams and MacKenzie Gore. With their salaries confirmed for 2026, it could potentially kick start trade talks, especially for Gore. Earlier today, Andrew […]
From Federal Baseball | about 2 months ago | 8 reads
Today marks the deadline for MLB teams to come to agreements with their arb-eligible players before a hearing is scheduled in the arbitration process. Over the course of today, many players, who are in the team control portion of their careers and haven’t yet hit free agency, will come to agreements with clubs on what […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
The Texas Rangers have finalized deals with Josh Smith, Jake Burger, Josh Jung and Ezequiel Duran, their four unsigned arbitration-eligible players, according to Shawn McFarland of the DMN. No details as of yet on the amount each player will receive. The Rangers had nine arbitration-eligible players on November 21 — the deadline to tender contracts […]
From Lone Star Ball | about 2 months ago | 5 reads
There were only two Cubs who were arbitration-eligible, Justin Steele and Javier Assad, before today’s deadline for players and teams to avoid having to exchange figures for an arb hearing. The trade for Edward Cabrera adds one more player to that list. One of the three has now avoided arbitration: Steele made $6.55 million in […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue | about 2 months ago | 4 reads
More than a week into the new year and about a month before major league spring training camps, now is about the time when minor league coaching staffs get finalized and/or announced. On Thursday, the Tulsa Drillers announced that Eric Wedge will return to manage the Dodgers’ Double-A affiliate in the Texas League. Wedge managed […]
From True Blue LA | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
According to MLBTR, the A’s and Shea Langeliers are in agreement on a contract for 2026 that will pay the catcher $5.25M and avoid the dreaded arbitration hearing. Langeliers was the last arbitration eligible player on the A’s, who previously have come to agreements with Austin Wynns ($1.1M), Ken Waldichuk ($825M, claimed by the Braves […]
From Athletics Nation | about 2 months ago | 7 reads
Today is the deadline for arbitration-eligible players to file their request for a 2026 salary, and for teams to file their corresponding number. If it comes to that point at the end of the day, typically the team and the player will proceed to an arbitration hearing next month, where one of those two numbers will be selected. To avoid that potentially nasty process, teams and players like to sign contracts by today for the upcoming season. For example, the Cubs have avoided arbitrat...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | about 2 months ago | 6 reads
Today is the day for teams and players to exchange arbitration numbers with each other, also a day where a lot of these two settle their differences. The Phillies are no different and have settled with a few players already. There are still a few outstanding cases to be settles and we’ll update them as […]
From The Good Phight | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
The last entry in this series was about Ben Zobrist, who pitched in the final game — in fact, the last inning — of the Cubs’ disastrous 2019 season. No Cubs position players pitched in the abbreviated 2020 season. And that had nothing to do with the length of the season — there were 35 […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue | about 2 months ago | 1 read