Overview
- MLB formally listed 137 new free agents Sunday, and players can begin signing with new teams on Thursday.
- Top names include Bo Bichette, Kyle Schwarber and Kyle Tucker, with pitchers Framber Valdez, Ranger Suárez, Dylan Cease, Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander also on the board.
- The Cubs have 10 free agents including Tucker, the Red Sox have four (Steven Matz, Justin Wilson, Rob Refsnyder, Dustin May) and the Yankees have eight.
- Teams have until Thursday to issue qualifying offers worth $22,025,000 to eligible players, a mechanism that has been accepted infrequently in past offseasons.
- The pool could grow this week depending on option and opt-out decisions involving Alex Bregman, Pete Alonso, Cody Bellinger, Edwin Díaz and Shane Bieber, while early media predictions include a speculative Tucker-to-Dodgers scenario.