{"id":434470,"date":"2026-01-28T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:06:09","slug":"this-week-in-free-agency-1-20-1-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434470\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Free Agency: 1\/20 – 1\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Superbowl matchup has been determined. New England is between blizzards. The national top prospect lists have all been updated. Fantasy baseball drafts have started. There are still well over 100 free agents out there, even after a busy week. Here is who signed. All ranked players can be found in the Free Agency Tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#3 \u2014 Cody Bellinger, OF (NYY)
5 years, $162.5 million
Opt-outs after Years 2 and 3<\/p>\n

Yankees played the market well enough on this one. Expensive to be certain but retaining Bellinger is nothing but a net positive for the Yankees.<\/p>\n

#29 \u2014 Harrison Bader, OF (SFG)
2 years, $20.5 million<\/p>\n

One of the more underrated players in the game, Bader is coming off his best offensive season and continues to play an elite centerfield. He has been an injury risk in the past, but has remained relatively healthy over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n

\"To<\/a>Harrison Bader. Photo- The Player\u2019s Tribune<\/p>\n

#81 \u2014 Taylor Rogers, RP (MIN)
1 year, $2 million<\/p>\n

Hometown discount on a solid lefty reliever with closing experience. It pays to be nice to your players.<\/p>\n

#83 \u2014 Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez, RP (CHW)
2 years, $20 million<\/p>\n

I am not sure what the bigger surprise is- Dominguez getting this lucrative a deal, or the White Sox being the ones to give it to him.<\/p>\n

#92 \u2014 Yo\u00e1n Moncada, 3B (LAA)
1 year, $4 million<\/p>\n

Moncada showed decent power in his first season with the Angels although he only played in 84 games due to injury. To be fair, that\u2019s more games than Anthony Rendon played in any single season over five years with the Angels and is rather impressive by comparison. <\/p>\n

#125 \u2014 Nick Sandlin, RP (LAA)
Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Underrated righty with a funky delivery dealt with his share of injury in 2025 so obviously the Angels were all over him.<\/p>\n

#149 \u2014 Luis Garc\u00eda, RP (NYM)
1 year, $1.75 million<\/p>\n

Veteran arm coming off a surprising bounce back. Easy to cut if things go sour fast.<\/p>\n

#186 \u2014 Cam Booser, RP (TB)
Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Booser truly fits the trope of random reliever that comes to Tampa and becomes an All-Star for one year before his elbow explodes shortly after signing elsewhere the next year.<\/p>\n

\"Long<\/a>Cam Booser. Photo- Chicago Sun-Times<\/p>\n

#188 \u2014 Austin Gomber, SP (TEX)
Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Will be interesting to see what he can do outside of the pitching hellscape that is Coors Field.<\/p>\n

#202 \u2014 LaMonte Wade Jr., OF\/1B (CHW)
Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Completely imploded after a few solid seasons with the Giants. A very good eye gives him a solid skill to fall back on at least.<\/p>\n

#204 \u2014 Dylan Carlson, OF (CHC)
Minor League deal<\/p>\n

My oh my have the might fallen.<\/p>\n

#230 \u2014 Chas McCormick, OF (CHC)
Minor League deal<\/p>\n

#234 \u2014 Dane Dunning, SP (SEA)
Minor League deal<\/p>\n

#255 \u2014 Corey Julks, OF (DET)
Minor League deal<\/p>\n

#264 \u2014 Tim Mayza, RP (PHI)
Minor League deal<\/p>\n

#295 \u2014 Chad Wallach, C (Athletics)
Minor League deal<\/p>\n

\"Gallagher:<\/a>Chad Wallach. Photo- Blaine Ohigashi<\/p>\n

C.J. Stubbs, C (TOR) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Tres Barrera, C (WAS) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Trey Mancini, 1B\/OF (LAA) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Tristin English, 1B (ATL) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Samad Taylor, OF (SDP) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Nelson Vel\u00e1zquez, OF (STL) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Luke Williams, UT (ATL) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Aaron S\u00e1nchez, SP (KCR) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Craig Kimbrel, RP (NYM) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

\"Astros<\/a>Craig Kimbrel. Photo- Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n

Dylan Coleman, RP (NYY) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Tayron Guerrero, RP (BOS) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Bryce Montes de Oca, RP (WAS) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Ryan Miller, RP (COL) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Connor Seabold, RP (TOR) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Tayler Scott, RP (ATL) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Javy Guerra, RP (ATL) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Blayne Enlow, RP (ATL) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Sean Reid-Foley, RP (ATL) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

(That\u2019s four relievers for the Braves if you were counting)<\/p>\n

Phil Bickford, RP (DET) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Gabe Klobosits, RP (CHC) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n

Patrick Weigel, RP (COL) \u2014 Minor League deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Superbowl matchup has been determined. New England is between blizzards. The national top prospect lists have all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-434470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434470","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=434470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}