{"id":337832,"date":"2025-12-09T19:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337832\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:59:10","slug":"mlb-winter-meetings-live-updates-edwin-diaz-signs-with-dodgers-kyle-schwarber-re-signs-with-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337832\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Winter Meetings live updates: Edwin Diaz signs with Dodgers, Kyle Schwarber re-signs with Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In general, the free agent market has been slow to develop \u2014 at least, until the last 45 minutes or so \u2014 but the market for relievers has been relatively active. Three of the top four free agent relievers have signed already, and there\u2019s been recent buzz about Pete Fairbanks having a strong market as well.<\/p>\n<p>This is the state of the free agent relief market (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6778310\/2025\/11\/06\/mlb-top-50-free-agents-2025-2026-kyle-tucker\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Big Board rankings<\/a> are in parenthesis, players who have already signed are in bold):<\/p>\n<p>Top of the market<\/p>\n<p>Edwin D\u00edaz (11)Devin Williams (19)Robert Suarez (23)Ryan Helsley (27)<\/p>\n<p>Recently converted starters<\/p>\n<p>Brad Keller (36)Luke Weaver (40)<\/p>\n<p>Proven veterans<\/p>\n<p>Raisel Iglesias (45)Kenley Jansen (46)Seranthony Dominguez (47Emilio Pagan (49)<\/p>\n<p>Untapped potential<\/p>\n<p>Declined option<\/p>\n<p>Late-inning veterans<\/p>\n<p>Tyler RogersAndrew KittredgeKyle Finnegan<\/p>\n<p>This list includes only 15 names, and the only way to be comprehensive is to at least triple that number. Shawn Armstrong and Sean Newcomb put themselves on the radar with standout seasons. Tommy Kahnle, Paul Sewald and Chris Martin are out there late-inning veterans. Danny Coulombe, Gregory Soto, Justin Wilson and Caleb Thielbar are among the free agent lefties. The Dodgers non-tendered former closer Evan Phillips, who could return from Tommy John surgery in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In general, the free agent market has been slow to develop \u2014 at least, until the last 45&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-337832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}