{"id":358999,"date":"2025-12-19T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358999\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:40:17","slug":"mlbs-biggest-winners-and-losers-of-free-agent-and-trade-season-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358999\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB&#8217;s Biggest Winners and Losers of Free-Agent and Trade Season So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Winning Major League Baseball&#8217;s offseason doesn&#8217;t guarantee anything during the regular season, but it can be a big step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">So, which teams have made the biggest strides (in either direction) thus far this winter?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">On the one hand, it&#8217;s still early. In fact, the winter equinox isn&#8217;t until Sunday, and then we have three more months until Opening Day. Moreover, most of the cream of the crop free agents\u2014Kyle Tucker, Bo Bichette, Framber Valdez, Alex Bregman, etc.\u2014are still available, so there&#8217;s ample opportunity remaining for early losers to become winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">On the other hand, deals have been struck with 21 of the 42 players (50 percent) who appeared atop <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/2025-26-top-50-mlb-free-agents-with-predictions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">MLB Trade Rumors&#8217; ranking<\/a> of the best free agents in early November, so we have kind of reached the halfway point of the offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">No time like the present for an update on who&#8217;s crushing it and who&#8217;s crashing out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Winners and losers are presented in no particular order, aside from oscillating back and forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winning Major League Baseball&#8217;s offseason doesn&#8217;t guarantee anything during the regular season, but it can be a big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-358999","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\/358999","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=358999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}