{"id":441901,"date":"2026-01-30T00:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441901\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:21:08","slug":"framber-valdez-the-latest-mlb-star-to-await-free-agency-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441901\/","title":{"rendered":"Framber Valdez the latest MLB star to await free agency answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Framber Valdez remains the best and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/01\/sports\/where-things-stand-for-coveted-mlb-free-agents-in-slow-market\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most fascinating free agent case going<\/a>. His obvious comps are Max Fried and Corbin Burnes from last year\u2019s free agent class plus Dylan Cease from this one \u2014 three pitchers who received $200M deals.<\/p>\n<p>Valdez \u2014 tied with Fried for most wins this decade and second to Zack Wheeler for quality starts \u2014 is said to be very patient.<\/p>\n<p>Stars have had long waits before, notably Bryce Harper, who didn\u2019t sign his 13-year, then-record $330M deal until Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Valdez is a year-plus older than the above trio of comps as they entered free agency. However, he posted a higher WAR than them not only in his platform year but also in the two years prior to free agency as well as the three years prior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Framber Valdez remains the best and most fascinating free agent case going. His obvious comps are Max Fried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,490,462,40120,127451,82,2091,2089,489],"class_list":["post-441901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-mlb-hot-stove","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-tarik-skubal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441901","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=441901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}