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After declining a one-year, $18.9 million dollar qualifying offer from the Cincinnati Reds, Trevor Bauer is set to be a free agent in search of a big payday. Bauer chose the perfect time to have a career year, as the likely NL Cy Young award winner put up an outstanding 1.73 ERA (2nd best in the MLB) to go along with 100 strikeouts (3rd in MLB), and a ridiculous 0.795 WHIP (2nd … [Read more...] about Five Possible Landing Spots For Trevor Bauer

Most of the talk this offseason will center around free agent starting pitcher and Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer. Bauer is an ace and should receive multiple offers. However, there are several other pitching candidates that teams will target. Among them is right-hander Taijuan Walker. Walker is a former 2010 first-round draft pick. After an up and down three seasons with … [Read more...] about Potential Landing Spots for Taijuan Walker

Free agency changed the very fabric of baseball more than forty years ago. The champions of that battle, Curt Flood and Marvin Miller are ever-fading memories to those of us old enough to remember it. Younger fans are lucky to know anything about it all. But all fans know free agency as a fixture of the game’s reality. And with it come mechanisms unique to the process. … [Read more...] about MLB Free Agency: The Walk Year

The bullpen of the New York Yankees is not as imposing as in years past. The team has lost many late-inning arms in recent years who helped make the bullpen such a dominant force. As it stands, there are only three high-leverage relievers whom the Yankees trust right now. They are Chad Green, Zack Britton, and Aroldis Chapman. There are only so many innings these three pitchers … [Read more...] about Keone Kela is a Great Fit for the Yankees