MLBTR’s annual High 50 Free Brokers record comes out Thursday night! We’ll even be launching our free agent prediction contest at the moment.
This week’s subscriber mailbag covers doable Freddy Peralta and Sonny Grey trades, how the 2026-27 lockout would possibly have an effect on free company this winter, the place Bo Bichette will signal if not Toronto, the probabilities the Dodgers land Kyle Tucker, and the way the Cubs will strategy the lack of Tucker in addition to a rotation improve.
Morris asks:
What would a sensible commerce with Milwaukee for Freddy Peralta appear to be for the Braves? Whereas I’d like to see Stop in a Braves’ uni, I believe he could get a significantly better deal elsewhere with Atlanta’s seeming insistence on being “logical” with each free agent (cue Friedman’s well-known quote). Milwaukee has a penchant for actually getting one thing further out of pitchers, and Peralta is a completed product who will probably be too costly for them to maintain for much longer. Would one thing like Bryce Elder (Milwaukee may completely work out make him higher), a top-15 pitching prospect, and a top-30 position-player-prospect get the deal finished?
At one level in our free agent deliberations, we had Dylan Stop signing a three-year, $93MM take care of two opt-outs. We have been having a little bit of a tough time giving Stop the long-term contract he is doubtless looking for, principally due to his 4.55 ERA. For probably the most half, we have gotten previous these reservations and anticipate Stop to signal for maybe seven years, as Aaron Nola did coming off a 4.46 common season mark.
It needs to be famous that the Braves have been aggressive within the bidding for Nola, so we will not fully rule out Alex Anthopoulos going lengthy for the Georgia-native Stop. But it surely’s additionally true that in eight years atop the Braves’ entrance workplace, Anthopoulos’ greatest free agent deal in each years and {dollars} was Marcell Ozuna’s four-year, $65MM pact in February 2021. I agree that Stop feels unlikely in Atlanta.
On September thirtiethGabriel Burns of the Atlanta Journal-Structure wrote, “The Braves may use one other dependable veteran — somebody within the mould of Charlie Morton as a pitcher who can present steadiness, management and constant innings.” The pondering is that with Chris Sale, Spencer Schwellenbach, and Spencer Strider locked in, the Braves want reliability greater than they want a entrance of the rotation man. In my High 50 picks, I’ve bought the Braves signing Chris Bassitt. I additionally discover the thought of a paid-down Sonny Grey acquisition to be believable.
However there’s nothing that precludes Anthopoulos from pondering larger and renting Peralta for a 12 months, no matter whether or not they can ultimately lengthen him.
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