Framber Valdez could soon be winding up pitching in the AL East.<\/p>\n
Valdez is the top free agent starting pitcher available, as multiple teams have shown interest in the left-hander. One team that could show interest in Valdez is the Toronto Blue Jays, who fell short in landing Kyle Tucker and Bo Bichette.<\/p>\n
However, Blue Jays insider Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet believes the Baltimore Orioles, another division rival of the Boston Red Sox, will likely land Valdez.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unclear how much recent contact they\u2019ve had with Framber Valdez, but for what it\u2019s worth I heard they met with him in person at the Las Vegas GM Meetings (pre-Cease deal) and there was some mutual interest at that point,\u201d Nicholson-Smith wrote<\/a>, in a piece published on Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the Blue Jays wanted to go all-in on run prevention, they could reignite those talks, but most in the industry consider the Mets and Baltimore Orioles more likely suitors for the left-hander.\u201d<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n If the Orioles do land Valdez, it would only make the AL East that much better and the chances of the Red Sox winning the division much more difficult.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Last season with the Houston Astros, Valdez was 13-11 with a 3.66 ERA in 31 starts.<\/p>\n Valdez is a two-time MLB All-Star and helped the Astros win the World Series in 2022.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Framber Valdez could soon be winding up pitching in the AL East. Valdez is the top free agent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-411906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}