Retirements
- Justin Verlander retired from professional baseball.
- Max Scherzer retired from professional baseball.
- Evan Longoria retired from professional baseball.
- Jesse Chavez retired from professional baseball.
- Carlos Carrasco retired from professional baseball.
- Donovan Solano retired from professional baseball.
Detroit Tigers: Retired #35 in honor of Justin Verlander.
St. Louis Cardinals: Retired #50 in honor of
Adam Wainwright.
Los Angeles Dodgers: Retired #22 in honor of
Clayton Kershaw.
Extensions & Free Agents
The Royals remained flexible and avoided any multiyear contracts over the off season, with the only major acquisition to bolster the team being a trade with Boston for
Matthew Boyd, which included over $16m to offset his $18.9m salary The Royals gave up 2022 1st round pick
Gavin Cross (now playing IND ball) in the deal. While the plan was clearly to ‘run it back’, several players saw their time in Kansas City come to an end:
SP
Dovydas Neverauskas free-agent
• 26 GS | 172.1 IP | 122 ERA+ | 3.6 WAR
SP
Nick Pivetta free-agent
• 1GS | 1.1 IP SEASON ENDING INJURY
RP
Luis Cessa free-agent
• 30 G | 87.2 IP | 128 ERA+ | 0.7 WAR
RP
Chris Martin free-agent
• 16 G | 20. IP | 148 ERA+ | 0.2 WAR
RP
Miguel Castro free-agent
• 13 G | 18.2 IP | 136 ERA+ | 0.6 WAR
RP
Kris Bubic not offered arbitration, free agent
• 0 G INJURED ALL SEASON
RP
John Schreiber not offered arbitration, free agent
• 30 G 33.1 IP | 90 ERA+ | 0.4 WAR
1B
J.D. Davis free-agent
• 53 G | 220 PA | 81 OPS+ | 0.2 WAR | .242 / .327 / .351 / 3 HR
2B
Adam Frazier free-agent.
• 71 G | 158 PA | 80 OPS+ | 0.3 WAR | .231 / .348 / .321 / 1 HR
LF
Garrett Hampson free-agent.
• 72G |170 BA | 85 OPS+ | -0.4 WAR | .226 / .335 / .359 / 1 HR
C
Austin Nola not offered arbitration, free agent
• AAA 90 G | 395 PA | 97 OPS+ | 1.4 WAR | .292 / .385 / .424 / 5 HR
Highlight contract extensions around the league included:
Baltimore Orioles: 1B
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 7 years $234,500,000.
Tampa Bay Rays: 3B
Isaac Paredes 5 years $117,800,000.
Highlight free agent deals included:
New York Yankees: LF
Tyler O'Neill 6 years $184,600,000.
New York Yankees: 3B
Matt Chapman 6 years $169,200,000.
Oakland Athletics: 1B
Christian Walker 5 years $67,000,000.
New York Yankees: SS
Willy Adames 7 years $224,900,000.
St. Louis Cardinals: SP
Corbin Burnes 6 years $106,900,000.
San Francisco Giants: LF
Marcell Ozuna 4 years $72,000,000.
Baltimore Orioles: LF
Joc Pederson 5 years $88,000,000.
Houston Astros: SP
Max Fried 7 years $135,800,000.
Los Angeles Dodgers: LF
Juan Soto 8 years $298,000,000.
San Francisco Giants: SP
Blake Snell 6 years $166,800,000.
New York Yankees: SP
Dovydas Neverauskas to a 4-year contract $41,500,000.
Hall of Fame
On January 22,
Todd Helton 85.1% (7th year) and
Ichiro Suzuki 76.2% (1st year) were inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Prospects
The Top 20 prospects list was updated on Opening Day. Kansas City did not have a player on the list.
