Day: December 15, 2025

Pitchers in free agency are where front offices either earn their keep or get fired two years later. Everyone loves the upside, everyone downplays the risk, and someone always convinces themselves this time will be different. These are the arms that matter — and where I think they end up. SP Shinji Imanaka Imanaka is one of the splashier names on the market, mostly because of the unknown. He arrives from Japan young, polished, and ready to...

Free agency is where reputations get exposed. Some players are about to get paid for real production. Others are about to get paid because teams convince themselves they’re smarter than the data. Here’s how I see this small group of hitters landing. Kazuhiro Kiyohara Kiyohara looks better on the surface than he actually is. He’s a good hitter, not a great one — power, patience, and enough consistency to be useful, but not enough to...