{"id":366759,"date":"2025-12-23T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366759\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:38:11","slug":"justin-verlander-and-8-mlb-free-agents-with-huge-buy-low-upside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366759\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Verlander and 8 MLB Free Agents With Huge Buy-Low Upside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Age: 28
2025 Stats: 154 G, 675 PA, 8 HR, 11 SB, .292 AVG, .327 OBP, .392 SLG<\/p>\n

Luis Arraez was always going to be the most polarizing free agent on this winter’s market. And judging from how little buzz there’s been on him, it would seem teams are mostly unimpressed. <\/p>\n

This is justifiable in the sense that Arraez has been a roughly 1-WAR player in each of the last two seasons. The bat-to-ball skill is the best there is<\/a>, but it doesn’t come with sides of walks, power, baserunning or defense.<\/p>\n

Even so, this is a lifetime .317 hitter with three batting titles to his name. He also entered the market hotter than his overall line would suggest, as he recovered from a slow start to hit a decidedly more Arraez-like .310 in the second half of 2025.<\/p>\n

Even if all he can do is set the table, a team with enough power in the middle of its lineup could make the most of that talent. This year’s San Diego Padres were not a good proof of concept in this regard, as their 152 total home runs were the third-fewest in the league.<\/p>\n

Potential Landing Spots: Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Age: 282025 Stats: 154 G, 675 PA, 8 HR, 11 SB, .292 AVG, .327 OBP, .392 SLG Luis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-366759","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\/366759","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=366759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}