With Major League Baseball officially opening free agency at 4 p.m. Thursday, the St. Louis Cardinals made several roster moves to shape their 40-man roster ahead of key deadlines for Rule 5 draft protection and contract tenders. Utility player Bryan Torres was added to the 40-man roster after a strong season at Triple-A Memphis, where he posted a .440 on-base percentage. Left-hander Zack ... Read more
The Tigers Just Put $22 Million on the Table for Gleyber Torres—Now the Ball’s in His Court.yv
The Detroit Tigers have extended the one-year qualifying offer to free-agent second baseman Gleyber Torres, opening the door for a potential reunion in the 2026 season. It's worth $22.025 million. The Tigers extended the offer before the Thursday, Nov. 6, deadline for qualifying-offer decisions. Torres must decide by Nov. 18 whether to accept or decline. Only 14 of 144 players have accepted a ... Read more
The Tigers Just Got the Clearest Sign Yet That Their Easiest Offseason Move Is Right in Front of Them.yv
The Detroit Tigers didn’t need a front-office summit or an analytics deep dive to recognize what worked. When Kyle Finnegan showed up at the trade deadline, he stabilized the bullpen overnight, turning late innings that once felt fragile into a steady rhythm. His fastball played up, his strikeout rate jumped, and his presence on the mound carried the kind of calm this young roster had been searching for all ... Read more
Bo Bichette Is Hitting Free Agency—and the Blue Jays Are Already Hunting for What Comes Next.yv
“We will be in on his market,” team president Mark Shapiro said when asked about Bo Bichette, who became a free agent at 5 p.m. on Thursday. If there is one thing that Ross Atkins has been consistent about in his time as Blue Jays general manager, it generally has been acing the poker-player side of his position. Rarely does he even hint at the team’s intentions while in the pursuit of big signings, a strategy that has ... Read more
The Blue Jays Say Jeff Hoffman Is Their Closer—But Their Actions Tell a Different Story.yv
With the hard-to-stomach end to Game 7 of the World Series still fresh and painful, are the Blue Jays planning to stick with Jeff Hoffman as their closer? General manager Ross Atkins certainly didn’t sound like a man committed to that idea when he met with the media for his season-ending news conference on Thursday at the Rogers Centre. When asked if he sees Hoffman, who surrendered a game-tying solo home run ... Read more