With the Winter Meetings fast approaching – they’ll play out next week in San Diego - the hot stove already is red hot.
Two of the second-tier free agent pitchers - Zack Wheeler and Cole Hamels –are off the market as of Wednesday, a day in which the Yankees wrapped up two days of important meetings in Southern California by having a long business chat with backup rotation plan Stephen Strasburg, A day earlier, the Yanks met with their first choice, Gerrit Cole, and a few details from both sit-downs have come out.
Besides that, a lot of other rumors are flying on the likes of Madison Bumgarner, Yasiel Puig and Nicholas Castellanos, among others. Meantime, the Angels sidetracked from their pursuit of Cole by adding a rotation piece in a 4-for-1 trade.
Here is the latest baseball news:
MADISON BUMGARNER, LHP
Status: Free agent.
Age: 30 (31 on Aug. 1, 2020).
2019 stats: San Francisco Giants, 9-9, 3.90 ERA, 34 starts, 207.2 IP, 191 hits, 43 BB, 203 K.
The latest: According to MLB Network insider Jon Heyman, the Reds have emerged as a club that’s in the hunt for Bumgarner, who lost two pursuers on Wednesday when the Braves signed Hamels and the Phillies landed Wheeler. The Reds hoping to contend in 2020 and are looking for a frontline starter to join an already good rotation that includes Luis Castillo, Trevor Bauer, Sonny Gray and Anthony DeSclafa. The Reds’ biggest competitor is the Minnesota Twins, who have prioritized Bumgarner.
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DYLAN BUNDY, RHP
Status: Los Angeles Angels.
Age: 27 (28 on Nov .15, 2020).
2019 stats: Baltimore Orioles, 7-14, 4.79 ERA, 30 starts, 161.2 IP, 161 hits, 29 BB, 162 K.
The latest: The Angels gave up four pitching prospects to add Bundy to their rotation in a trade with the Orioles. Bundy was drafted fourth overall by Baltimore in 2011 and once was one of baseball’s top prospects, but he’s followed two promising seasons (23-15, 4.16 ERA from 2016-17) with two poor campaigns (15-30, 5.13 ERA from 2018-19). He’ll probably be slotted fourth or fifth in the Angels’ rotation regardless if they sign Cole. Of the prospects headed to Baltimore, all right-handers, only Kyle Bradish was ranked by MLB Pipeline as an Angels top 30 prospect at No. 21. The Orioles also are getting Isaac Mattson, Zack Peek and Kyle Brnovich.
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NICHOLAS CASTELLANOS, OF/DH
Status: Free agent.
Age: 27 (28 on March 4, 2020).
2019 stats: Detroit Tigers & Chicago Cubs, .289 average, 615 AB, 100 runs, 178 hits, 27 doubles, 27 HR, 73 RBI .863 OPS, 151 games.
The latest: The Cubs “are definitely interested” in re-signing Castellanos, MLB Network insider Ken Rosenthal said on MLB Now. Castellanos hit .321 with 16 homers in 51 games with the Cubs this year after joining them last July 31 from Detroit in a deadline-day trade.
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GERRIT COLE, RHP
Status: Free agent.
Age: 29 (30 on Sept. 8, 2020).
2019 stats: Houston Astros, 20-5, 2.50 ERA, 33 starts, 212.1 IP, 142 hits, 66 runs, 59 ER, 29 HR, 48 BB, 326 K.
The latest: Cole’s meeting with the Yankees on Tuesday latest four hours, according to MLB Network insider Jon Heyman, and the 2019 AL Cy Young runner-up “assured the Yankees he has ‘no West Coast bias.’” Added Heyman, “Yankees believe he’s built for NYC, but have been worried he preferred LA.”
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COLE HAMELS, LHP
Club: Atlanta Braves.
Age: 35 (36 on Dec. 27, 2019).
2019 stats: Chicago Cubs, 7-7, 3.81 ERA, 27 starts, 141.2 IP, 56 BB, 143 K.
The latest: The Braves pulled a surprise signing Hamels to a one-year, $18-million contract on Wednesday because their competition for the four-time All-Star included the Phillies. Hamels was with the Phillies for his first 9 1/2 seasons, he was the World Series MVP when the Phils won it all in 2008 and he loves Philadelphia. Then why pick the Braves? “Phillies had made an initial offer to Hamels and were just beginning talks, but when Braves jumped in and hit Cole’s goal, that decided things,” Jeff Passan of ESPN.com tweeted. The Braves winning the NL East two years in a row also played a factor in Hamels’ decision, as did joining a rotation that already included four good young starters - righties Mike Soroka and Mike Foltnewicz, and lefties Max Fried and Sean Newcomb. “When it came down to it, I wanted to play on a contender,” Hamels said. “I was very familiar with the Braves. I’ve watched them in the postseason and I’ve seen what they’ve been able to create. I’ve always been following them in hopes of maybe being able to pitch with some of those guys, because they have such good young talent. I know at my stage of my career what I could provide could be beneficial.”
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MICHAEL PINEDA, RHP
Status: Free agent.
Age: 30 (31 on Jan. 18, 2020).
2019 stats: Minnesota Twins, 11-5, 4.01 ERA, 26 starts, 146 IP, 141 hits, 28 BB, 140 K
The latest: The Toronto Blue Jays “have checked in" on Pineda, Scott Mitchell of TSN Sports in Toronto reported. Pineda returned from August 2017 Tommy John surgery this year and fared well before being handed a 60-game suspension in September for testing positive to a banned substance. Pineda still has another 39 games to sit out in 2020, so he can’t pitch until sometime in May.
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YASIEL PUIG, RF
Status: Free agent.
Age: 28 (29 on Dec. 7, 2019).
2019 stats: Cincinnati Reds & Cleveland Indians, .267 average, 555 AB, 76 runs, 148 hits, 30 doubles, 24 HR, 84 RBI, .785 OPS, 149 games.
The latest: The Miami Marlins are looking to add a bargain outfielder on the free agent market and Puig is a candidate to be offered a contract for one or two years. Others on the Marlins’ radar include Avisail Garcia, who hit 20 homers playing for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2019, and Steven Souza, Jr., who missed all of last season due to a knee surgery.
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HYUN-JIN RYU, LHP
Status: Free agent.
Age: 32 (33 on March 25, 2020).
2019 stats: Los Angeles Dodgers, 14-5, 2.32 ERA, 29 starts, 182.2 IP, 160 hits, 24 BB, 163 K.
The latest: The Blue Jays are showing interest in Ryu, MLB Network insider Jon Heyman reported. “It’s not good enough to have (rotation) depth,” Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins recently told MLB.com. “We have to have guys who can contribute in significant ways.” The Twins also are considering the 2019 NL Cy Young runner-up.
STEPHEN STRASBURG, RHP
Status: Free agent.
Age: 31 (32 on July 20, 2020).
2019 stats: Washington Nationals, 18-6, 3.32 ERA, 33 starts, 209 IP, 161 hits, 56 BB, 251 K.
The latest: The Yankees and Strasburg’s get-to-know-each-other meeting "is said to have gone well,” Mark Feinsand of MLB.com reported in a tweet while adding, “They talked NY market, the team and its philosophy as the Yankees gave the pitcher an extensive view of the organization. Exact dollars weren’t discussed, but the pitching market was certainly referenced.”
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ZACK WHEELER, RHP
Club: Philadelphia Phillies.
Age: 29 (30 on May 30, 2020).
2019 stats: New York Mets, 11-8, 3.96 ERA, 31 starts, 195.1 IP, 196 hits, 50 BB, 195 K.
The latest: The five-year, $118-million deal from the Phillies that Wheeler accepted was topped by the Chicago White Sox, who badly wanted the former Mets righty. According to Chuck Garfien of NBC Sports Chicago, the White Sox offered “more than $120 million” for five years to Wheeler, who opted to join the Phillies because his future wife wanted to live close to her New Jersey home. Wheeler and fiancée Dominique Rizzo will tie the knot at 7 p.m., on New Year’s Eve in Pompton Plains, N.J.
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