{"id":2708,"date":"2022-12-30T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/the-9-best-mlb-free-agent-deals-this-winter\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T03:04:00","slug":"the-9-best-mlb-free-agent-deals-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/the-9-best-mlb-free-agent-deals-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9 best MLB free agent deals this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Jon-Heyman.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"John Heyman\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Jon-Heyman.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Jon-Heyman.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Jon-Heyman.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Jon-Heyman.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Free agency deals this winter have ranged from great to spectacular, with stars all making big money. There were so many great player deals that it&#8217;s hard to narrow it down to the best 9, but we&#8217;ll try.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Judge set the position player record, but didn&#8217;t even make it onto our list.  (He spent less to keep up his Yankees legacy.) Carlos Correa is either off his contract (a $350 million Giants deal that&#8217;s off or a pending He&#8217;s still officially a free agent, although he&#8217;s definitely joining the Mets for a $315 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>Completing a deal with Correa will give all four shortstops a big deal. Trea Turner also got less when he got $300 million from the Phillies, and Dansby Swanson could have gotten a little more elsewhere (perhaps with the Twins). But he wanted to be a turnip. But of the four great shortstops, only Xander Bogaerts made the top 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Masataka Yoshida ($90M, 5Y, Red Sox):<\/strong> This guy has one great swing, but other teams saw Yoshida as a $50 million player.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Masataka-Yoshida-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Masataka Yoshida\" class=\"wp-image-25180362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Masataka-Yoshida-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Masataka-Yoshida-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Masataka-Yoshida-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Masataka-Yoshida-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Masataka Yoshida<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Kyodo News\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>2. Jacob deGrom ($185M, 5Y, Rangers):<\/strong> Some Mets officials believe he needs to be 100 percent to pitch.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p><strong>3. Xander Bogaerts ($280M, &#8217;11, Padres):<\/strong> This spending is about $100 million more than his own team provided. But you can&#8217;t help but love this player. <\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Jace Peterson ($9.5 million, 2 years, A):<\/strong> His career seemed doomed a year or two ago, so his deal is a godsend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Jameson Tyrion ($68M, 4Y, Cubs):<\/strong> He even turned down a $72 million contract for Taijuan Walker to eventually become the Cubs from the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Taijuan Walker ($72 million, 4 years, Phillies):<\/strong> Similar to Taillon, but Taillon looks better at this stage thanks to the splitter I learned from Carlos Carrasco.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Taijuan-Walker.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Taijuan Walker\" class=\"wp-image-25180360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Taijuan-Walker.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Taijuan-Walker.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Taijuan-Walker.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Taijuan-Walker.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Taijuan Walker<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAYSports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>7. Kenley Jansen ($32M, 2Y, Red Sox):<\/strong> Few people saw the two-year contract approaching 35.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Wilson Contreras ($87.5 million, 5 years, Cardinals):<\/strong> I felt like no one was near my longtime cub.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Robert Suarez ($44 million, 5 years, Padres):<\/strong> He avoided a year of arbitration by going to South Korea and returning as a free agent. The trend is to pay guys big and in fewer innings.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiTWh0dHBzOi8vbnlwb3N0LmNvbS8yMDIyLzEyLzI5L3RoZS1uaW5lLWJlc3QtbWxiLWZyZWUtYWdlbnQtZGVhbHMtdGhpcy13aW50ZXIv0gEA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Free agency deals this winter have ranged from great to spectacular, with stars all making big money. There were so many great player deals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/newspress-collage-25180271-1672367948634.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}