{"id":382352,"date":"2026-01-01T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382352\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:53:09","slug":"where-things-stand-for-coveted-mlb-free-agents-in-slow-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382352\/","title":{"rendered":"Where things stand for coveted MLB free agents in slow market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think this <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/26\/sports\/re-ranking-the-top-10-mlb-free-agents-as-elite-stars-remain-unsigned\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free agent market is moving slow<\/a>, well, it\u2019s not your imagination.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the biggest stars are still available, and theories for the deliberate pace almost outnumber the stars.<\/p>\n<p>Is it due to a potential work stoppage? Is it the price tags and a few high-dollar early signings? Is it the star-studded trade list, which still includes Freddy Peralta, Edward Cabrera, MacKenzie Gore, Ketel Marte and maybe even the great Tarik Skubal (that one still seems like a long shot).<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s worry, star free agents and their agents aren\u2019t showing it \u2014 not yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you think this free agent market is moving slow, well, it\u2019s not your imagination. The vast majority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[7679,49,48,8298,510,462,40120,127451,475,3980,82,2091,2089],"class_list":{"0":"post-382352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cody-bellinger","12":"tag-kyle-tucker","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-free-agency","15":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","16":"tag-new-york-mets","17":"tag-new-york-yankees","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}