{"id":907320,"date":"2026-09-27T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T11:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907320\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T11:34:11","slug":"top-mlb-free-agents-rumors-before-2026-regular-season-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907320\/","title":{"rendered":"Top MLB Free Agents Rumors Before 2026 Regular-Season Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Did anyone see this coming from Sonny Gray at 36 years old?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The right-hander is tied for the most wins (18) in MLB this season and owns the eighth-best ERA (2.72) in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Gray is arguably having the best season of his career. Plus, with the Red Sox sending Connelly Early to the Nationals at the deadline, they&#8217;ll need to hold on to their starting pitching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">According to Mass Live&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2026\/09\/red-sox-sonny-gray-after-bad-yankees-tenure-i-felt-like-theres-nothing-i-cant-do-now.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Cotillo<\/a>, Gray could be looking at a contract in the three-year, $75 million range. There&#8217;s just one slight concern: as Gray told The Boston Globe, he would retire &#8220;in a heartbeat&#8221; if that&#8217;s what his family wanted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">After a career-best year, though, retirement seems unlikely, with a reunion seemingly making sense for both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did anyone see this coming from Sonny Gray at 36 years old? The right-hander is tied for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-907320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907320","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=907320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}