The World Series is over and Major League Baseball’s offseason has begun. This offseason will have a different look with the impending labor situation. Baseball’s current CBA between MLB and the Major League Baseball Player’s Association is set to expire at midnight on December 1. 

Even with the lockout on the horizon, there will still be a lot of league activity in November. Free agents will file Thursday morning. Teams will then have a five-day negotiation window to re-sign their own players. Free agency will officially open on November 2 at 5 pm ET. 

MLB’s free agent period is normally slower than those in the NFL and NBA with major signings sometimes dragging into the next calendar year. With a lockout coming, there is a chance that we see a heightened sense of urgency by some players in hopes of locking down a deal before the sport shuts down. 

Dodgers lefty Tarik Skubal headlines this offseason’s free agent class. Skubal is a two-time Cy Young Award winner and one of the most dominant pitchers in the sport. He underwent an elbow procedure in early May but returned and pitched well for the Tigers and Dodgers down the stretch. He is in line for a record breaking contract and will become the highest-paid pitching in league history. 

The rest of the class is a little less inspiring. Michael King anchored the Padres pitching staff and had a good showing in the postseason. Freddy Peralta rediscovered his form after a deadline trade to the Rays and was MVP of the ALCS. Randy Arozarena put up a career-best season for the Mariners. There are really good players available but all of them are a level or two below Skubal. 

Below is our ranking of the top-40 MLB free agents. 

Number	Name	Position	Previous Team
1	Tarik Skubal	LHP	Tigers
2	Michael King	RHP	Padres
3	Teruaki Sato	3B	Hanshin (NPB)
4	Freddy Peralta	RHP	Rays
5	Randy Arozarena	OF	Mariners
6	Seiya Suzuki	OF	Cubs
7	Brandon Lowe	2B	Pirates
8	Adrian Morejon	LHP	Padres
9	Clay Holmes	RHP	Cubs
10	Trevor Rogers	LHP	Orioles
11	Jake Bauers	1B	Brewers
12	Sonny Gray	RHP	Red Sox
13	David Bednar	RHP	Yankees
14	Jazz Chisholm Jr.	2B	Yankees
15	Ryan Jeffers	C	Twins
16	Tyler Mahle	RHP	Braves
17	Luis Arraez	2B	Phillies
18	Foster Griffin	LHP	Guardians
19	Casey Mize	RHP	Padres
20	Nick Martinez	RHP	Rays
21	Gleyber Torres	2B	Tigers
22	Kaima Taira	RHP	Seibu (NPB)
23	Ian Happ	OF	Cubs
24	Michael Soroka	RHP	Diamondbacks
25	Kevin Gausman	RHP	Cubs
26	Shota Imanaga	LHP	Cubs
27	Raisel Iglesias	RHP	Braves
28	Ty France	1B	Padres
29	Alec Bohm	1B/3B	Phillies
30	Hiromi Itoh	RHP	Nippon (NPB)
31	Robbie Ray	LHP	Padres
32	Shane Bieber	RHP	Blue Jays
33	Daulton Varsho	OF	Astros
34	Alex Vesia	LHP	Dodgers
35	Mauricio Dubon	OF/SS	Braves
36	Tyler Stephenson	C	Reds
37	Gregory Soto	LHP	Pirates
38	Sean Newcomb	LHP	White Sox
39	Trent Grisham	OF	Yankees
40	J.P. Crawford	SS	Mariners

Where will Skubal land? 

Every team will be interested in Tarik Skubal but only a few have a realistic shot at landing the free agent left-hander. It will be easy to connect him to some of the biggest spenders. The Mets entered the 2026 season with high expectations but flopped in a big way. Steve Cohen may be looking to make a splash and signing Skubal would be the biggest splash available. 

The Yankees, Phillies and Blue Jays are other teams that could get in the mix for Skubal. He would make a ton of sense for a team like the Cubs that featured one of the best offenses in the majors but also one of the worst pitching staffs. A potential pairing of Skubal and Chris Sale would give the Braves two of the most dominant left-handed pitchers in the league. It would also require them to make a significant free agent investment which is not something that they normally do. 

Then there is the Dodgers who acquired Skubal from the Tigers at the trade deadline. LA’s core position players are getting older and their biggest need is shoring up that area. Still, they can never be counted out on a big name free agent. 

My gut is that Skubal ends up back with the Dodgers but I’m hoping that another team gets in the mix. 

What about Teruaki Sato?

Another intriguing name to keep an eye on this winter is Japanese third baseman Teruaki Sato. Sato won the MVP Award in the NPB in 2026 after hitting .306 with 39 home runs, 40 doubles and 106 RBIs. He played third base in Japan but there are questions about whether he will stick at the position in MLB. Teams like the Yankees, Phillies and Red Sox are thought to be among the group that will be interested. That could lead to a big payday for him. 

What does the lockout mean for free agency

Free agency will officially open on November 2 at 5 pm ET, but it will pause once the lockout begins. The CBA expires on December 1, at which point a lockout is expected to commence.

MLB free agency is typically a slow-moving process and it is a little difficult to project how the lockout might affect that. We do have a recent example to draw from. The owners locked out the players prior to the 2022 season and we saw a flurry of big contracts handed out before the CBA expired. The Texas Rangers gave Corey Seager and Marcus Semien a combined $500 million. Max Scherzer signed a big deal with the Mets while Javier Baez landed a six-year, $140 million deal from the Tigers.

This could be a similar situation. For teams already with big payrolls, they may look to add more top stars before facing possible restrictions from a proposed salary cap. Players may see an incentive to sign early because of the uncertainty of what things might look like once the lockout ends. I wouldn’t say it is a certainty that we will see increased activity in November but it is very much a possibility.

It is a Thursday, and the MLB season is officially over. Time for a trivia question.

As always, a couple of rules…

1 — Put a spoiler over your answer in the comments.

2 — Don’t go digging around on baseball sites to try to discover the answer. This is a trivia question, not a scavenger hunt.

Here is an alphabetical list of professional baseball players:

Grant Anderson

Brandon Boggs

Jeff Bronkey

Matt Bush

David Hulse

Kevin Reimer

These players all have something in common, and this is a complete list of every professional baseball player who has this commonality (so, for example, the answer can’t be “Players who have never been in my kitchen,” because Buddy Bell and Losing Pitcher Mulcahy and Rabbit Maranville, among others, also haven’t been in your kitchen).

Can you guess what this is a complete list of?

I will update later today in the afternoon with the answer.

Practically every franchise has cycled through peaks of contention and troughs of irrelevance, and the Yankees certainly have not been immune. The period covering the late 80s and early 90s represented a nadir for an organization close to celebrating its 100th birthday. Owner meddling, injuries to star players, and general poor roster building left a once-proud franchise stagnating in mediocrity with no clear path out of the mire.

This prevailing mood around the team had the unfortunate effect of distorting the perception of many of the players who donned the pinstripes during those years. One of the familiar names from that era was Jesse Barfield, an All-Star, Gold Glove outfielder for the Blue Jays who Steinbrenner brought to the Bronx in a move that was equal parts vindictive and short-sighted. This was no fault of Barfield’s, who performed ably when he was on the field yet whose short legacy with the Yankees is often viewed through the lens of the failure of those squads.

Jesse Lee Barfield
Born: October 29, 1959 (Joliet, IL)
Yankees Tenure: 1989-92

Jesse Lee Barfield was born in Joliet, IL, on October 29, 1959, to single mother Annie J. Barfield, his father having abandoned the family around the time of his birth. The George Werden Buck Boys Club was a haven in his childhood, the young Barfield falling in love with baseball watching his hero Ernie Banks and copying his batting stance. On a day trip to Comiskey Park with the Boys Club, the 13-year-old Barfield declared, “Man, one day I’m going to be playing right out there. You watch,” and so it was destined to be.

Barfield starred in the outfield for Joliet Central High School and caught the eye of Blue Jays scout Bobby Mattick, who convinced Toronto to draft Barfield in the ninth round of the 1977 June Amateur Draft. The Blue Jays offered a $2,500 signing bonus but Barfield declined as he had been awarded a scholarship to study architectural drawing in college after winning a statewide drafting competition, but the Blue Jays secured his signature when they tripled their offer, Barfield using the bonus to buy his mother a Ford Thunderbird.

Despite a slow start and growing pains in the low minors, Barfield kept his head down and slowly worked his way up the ladder before finally earning a call-up to the major league team in 1981. He debuted on September 3rd, and as fate would have it his first game was in right field in Comiskey Park, Barfield lining an RBI single in his second big league AB. He would play 25 games that season, showing enough to be named Opening Day starter in right in 1982 under manager Bobby Cox, and he never looked back.

Barfield established himself as one of the preeminent dual-threat outfielders in the majors by the mid 80s, his raw power and cannon arm leading to an All-Star appearance in 1986, AL Gold Gloves in 1986 and 1987, and AL Silver Slugger in 1986. He led the AL in home runs in 1986 with 40 and led all AL outfielders in outfield assists in five separate seasons. His peak came in the second-half of the 80s, Barfield posting back-to-back seasons of at least seven fWAR with a wRC+ over 140 in 1985 and 1986 as part of Toronto’s star-studded outfield alongside George Bell and Lloyd Moseby. Between 1985 and 1990, Barfield ranked seventh in MLB with 30.8 fWAR and eighth with 161 home runs.

By 1987, Barfield’s $1,525,000 salary made him the highest-paid position player in Blue Jays history at the time, and he was further rewarded with a three-year, $4.2 million deal at the end of the year. However, around this time the left wrist that Barfield had broken playing high school basketball was beginning to flare up, his production tailing off in his final year-and-a-half with the Blue Jays as the days out injured started to pile up. It was also around this time that George Steinbrenner was launching a full court press to expel Dave Winfield from the team, the Yankees owner attempting and failing to trade Winfield for Barfield in 1988.

Steinbrenner wouldn’t be denied his man for long, eventually acquiring Barfield from Toronto in exchange for pitching prospect Al Leiter on April 30, 1989. He missed time to a concussion at the start of his Yankees career but rebounded in the second half providing some much-needed cover in the lineup for Don Mattingly with Winfield out for the year after undergoing back surgery. Barfield recorded ten outfield assists in a 21-game span, finishing the year with a .234/.345/.415 triple slash line, 23 home runs, 67 RBIs, a 116 wRC+, and 4.1 fWAR in 150 games between Toronto and New York. This performance convinced the Yankees to extend him on a three-year contract worth $5.7 million.

1990 rolled around and despite Winfield’s return to health, Steinbrenner aimed a thinly-veiled dig at the future Hall of Famer, calling Barfield, “the best right fielder we’ve ever had.” Barfield continued to man Winfield’s normal position in right, Winfield relegated to DH and left field until he was traded to the Angels on May 11th. On April 26th of that season, Barfield hit his 199th and 200th home runs off Randy Johnson at Yankee Stadium. Despite all the turmoil surrounding the team — Steinbrenner would be suspended for hiring a criminal to dig up dirt on Winfield as his team set a franchise record for the most losses (95) in a season — Barfield led the team with 25 home runs and 78 RBIs, slashing .246/.359/.456 with a 128 wRC+ and 4.6 fWAR in 153 games.

Steinbrenner’s tenure was characterized by the combative interactions he had with his players and managers, but Barfield was one of the few players to stay in the owner’s good graces despite frequently finishing among the league leaders in strikeouts in an era when strikeouts were far less common or accepted as today. Barfield convinced Steinbrenner to move in the left field fences by ten feet to boost his and his teammates’ offensive numbers, though the promise went unfulfilled after Steinbrenner failed to add certain pitchers he was pursuing. Steinbrenner also sent Barfield a bottle of champagne in the clubhouse following the two-homer game against the Mariners.

“I think George should definitely be in the Hall of Fame, for changing the face of baseball. He always was very good for me and to me. He treated me with a lot of respect and I’ll never forget that.”

Despite a strong start to the 1991 season, Barfield’s body was beginning to betray him. A stress fracture in his left foot limited him to 84 games that season. The following year, Barfield dislocated a bone in his left wrist after slipping in a sauna and ended up requiring a radical procedure in August that left doctors unsure whether he would ever play baseball again. He appeared in just 114 games across his final two seasons with the Yankees, slashing .203/.286/.391 with 19 home runs, 55 RBIs, an 83 wRC+ and 1.0 fWAR. He signed with NPB’s Yomiuri Giants in 1993 where he became teammates with a certain rookie named Hideki Matsui, and after a failed attempt to return to MLB with the Astros where he was released before Opening Day in 1994, Barfield called curtains on a 12-year big league career.

Barfield made the playoffs just once in his career, losing to the Royals in the 1985 ALCS while still with the Blue Jays. He had the misfortune of joining the Yankees during one of the most fallow periods in the franchise’s history and as such was likely never appreciated as much as he deserved (not helped by the fact that he effectively replaced Winfield on the roster). The Yankees teams he played for never finished higher than fifth in the division, ending with a losing record in all four of his seasons in pinstripes. The swift accumulation of injuries at the end meant he just missed out on the next era of Yankees dominance. However, there is no doubt that he was one of the most fearsome players of his era with the bat and in the field.

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See more of the “Yankees Birthday of the Day” series here.

After an utterly dominant postseason, the Milwaukee Brewershave finally won a World Series.

And they may just be getting started. The Brew Crew will have almost everyone from this year's championship squad back in 2027, with one possible exception.

First baseman Jake Bauers, the National League Championship Series MVP in Milwaukee's sweep of the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers, is a free agent this winter. And after a stellar regular season in which he hit .266 with 26 home runs, 86 RBI, 93 runs scored and 11 stolen bases, Bauers is poised to cash in on the free agent market.

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Brewers manager Pat Murphy seemed well aware of that fact when Bauers presented him with the ball he caught for the final out in the clinching Game 5 win over the Tampa Bay Rays.

"You're gonna be a rich (expletive)," Murphy said (Warning: Explicit language). "Just remember when you're on that horse (expletive) Yankee team and you're all playing for yourselves ... Just remember, this is the way we used to do it."

Bauers may not be among the top 10 potential free agents this offseason, but the class is top-heavy with pitching (Tarik Skubal, Michael King and Freddy Peralta are the headliners), but teams in need of a power bat could certainly use someone with Bauers' skills.

Over his seven-year MLB career Bauers has played for five different teams, including the Rays and the Yankees. But then again, with supporters like Murphy, why would he want to leave Milwaukee?

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The Milwaukee Brewers winning the World Series was the ultimate feel-good ending to the MLB season for anyone who believes that small, close-knit teams can still succeed in an era where big-money organizations dominate free agency and the trade market by throwing cash at every single problem.

Nothing typified that better than Jake Bauers gifting the final out ball to manager Pat Murphy, and having an incredible exchange in what will potentially be Bauers’ final moment in a Milwaukee uniform. Murphy told Bauers “You’re gonna be a rich (expletive). Just remember when you’re on that horse (expletive) Yankee team and you’re all playing for yourselves … just remember this is the way we used to do it.”

Jake Bauers gifted Pat Murphy the final out ball. Murphy thanked him and told him

“You’re gonna be a rich fucker. Just remember when you’re on that horse shit Yankee team and you’re all playing for yourselves….just remember this is way we used to do it”#ThisIsMyCrewpic.twitter.com/LLOeKju4VQ

— Carter Lowe (@cjlowehoops) October 29, 2026

Bauers signed a one-year, $3.7M deal with the Brewers to play in 2026, and will be a free agent this winter. There is going to be no shortage of suitors for him, especially after an incredible season that saw him bat .266 for 28 home runs and 86 RBI. Murphy is referring less specifically to the Yankees and more using them as shorthand for any of the big-spending clubs in baseball, which he believes emphasizes individual play over the power of a team. Invoking the Yankees is also a callback to Bauers’ history in baseball when he played with the Yankees in 2023 on a mediocre 82-80 team that missed the postseason.

There has never been a more meaningful season for a small-market, lower spending team to win the World Series. Another championship year from the Dodgers or a team in their ilk would have given owners ammunition to push for a salary cap in baseball, which would directly damage the earnings of players, while owners got more wealthy. The Brewers win turns back that doomsday clock a couple of hours, by proving that baseball still needs an entire team to win, rather than a collection of talented individuals.

It might not have been the most media-friendly way of making his point, with live camera picking up Murphy’s colorful language — but goodness, was this an incredible moment between a player who is destined to leave, and the manager who loved coaching him.

As we embark on an offseason that will become known for its dearth of activity in the dead of winter, the Red Sox actually have some pretty big decisions to make right off the bat. The first of which involves them needing to get their 40-man roster back down to 40 men.

Why is it not at 40 men right now? Well, due to a combination of a rough battle with the injury bug all season, quirky MLB roster rules, and a surprising lack Boston free agents free agents, the Red Sox have an overflow problem. For those unaware, guys placed on the 60-day IL do not count towards a 40-man roster spot. This means that while baseball is being played, teams can have significantly more than 40 guys on their 40 man roster.

The Red Sox took full advantage of this all summer long as injuries piled up, and as of right now, they technically have 47 guys on the roster. However, five days after the World Series ends, the 60-day IL disappears and those on it need to return to the 40-man roster.

Normally, this isn’t a problem because impending free agents also leave the 40-man roster five days after the conclusion of the World Series. However, in Boston’s case, they have only three free agents: Sonny Gray, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, and Patrick Sandoval. Compare that with the following seven guys all set to come off the 60-day IL:

• Tristian Casas
• Kutter Crawford
• Zack Kelly
• Johan Oviedo
• Eduardo Rivera
• Justin Slaten
• Eli White

So now, the Sox have some big decisions to make. Four guys need to be removed from this roster by the middle of next week (a total of seven, but we know three will be the free agents), and the obvious question becomes “who are they?”

To supplement the discussion here, I’ll provide this link to the wonderful folks at Sox Prospects, who keep an excellent 40-man roster page. There’s a few obvious contenders (Eduardo Rivera and Raymond Burgos are the highest on my list), but the actual decision here is complex, as it will partially come down to who the Sox think they might be able to sneak back into their minor league system when all the dust settles.

Either way, this is the first real decision of the offseason, and this thread is a good place to kick off the discussion of who we all think should, and who we all think will be off the 40-man by this time next week. As always, keep it civil, and be good to one another!

The Milwaukee Brewers won the World Series. May it be so for us someday.

Now, we wait to see what happens in free agency and trades before baseball shuts down for an indeterminate amount of time due to an owner-imposed lockout on December 1st.

Free agents can now negotiate with their current teams and then on November 2nd, open free agency Begins. The deadline to tender arbitration-eligible players is November 20th, and the deadline to put Rule-5 -eligible players on the roster is November 17th. Generally speaking, teams treat a Rule-5 draft as if it will happen while knowing a lockout makes it unlikely.

So, there you have it. We’ll have some baseball news for the next 32 days… and then just lockout posturing for about 5 months, before a deal is inevitably struck. That’s my prediction.

The 2026 MLB season has officially ended. Congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers on their first ever World Series title. However, baseball never stops, and teams will start attacking the offseason right away. Of course, the Washington Nationals are one of those teams. I wanted to take a look at the state of the 40-man roster as the offseason begins.

First, I wanted to look at some important dates. As of 9 AM today, players on the last year of their contracts are officially free agents. However, they are not allowed to sign with a new team until November 2nd at 5 PM. Of course, December 2nd is another important day because that is when the collective bargaining agreement expires. For more key dates, here is a list of them.

Key Offseason Dates:

1st day after the World Series (October 29th):

– Trade market reopens.
– Exclusive negotiation period starts — Eligible players officially become free agents (9 a.m. ET), but can only negotiate and re-sign with their former club.

5th day after the World…

— Cody Snavely (Canelo) (@SnavelyCody6) October 29, 2026

With the Nationals being such a young team, they do not have any free agents. The ones that were on the roster this season were either traded or cut. That means the Nats have a very crowded 40-man roster heading into this offseason. Paul Toboni will have a lot of decisions to make here.

Including players currently on the 60-Day IL, the Nats have 45 players on the 40-Man roster. When the 60-Day IL guys come off early this offseason, there will be choices to make right away. The players currently on the 60-Day IL are Mitchell Parker, Ken Waldichuk, PJ Poulin, Matt Waldron and Drew Millas. Several of those guys are DFA candidates, so we will see which ones get added back.

I would expect to see several smaller roster moves over the next few days. When it comes to DFA candidates on the pitching side of things, there is no shortage of options for Paul Toboni. I could see the Nats making moves on Zak Kent, Kyle Nicolas, Paxton Schultz, Jared Simpson and Gus Varland. There are also more names that could be on the chopping block.

Entering the offseason, Paul Toboni will want as much flexibility as possible. We know he is active on the waiver wire, so having open 40-man spots is key. There are also several Rule-5 draft protection decisions to make. Travis Sykora and Jarlin Susana are must-protect guys, so those are two more spots you need open on the 40-man. The likes of Cayden Wallace, Alejandro Rosario and Maxwell Romero are other guys you could consider adding.

Jarlin Susana is going to be a HUGE problem for MLB hitters if he’s going to throw strikes like this. 3 straight strikes to @Dodgers Eduardo Quintero. 102. 101. 102 MPH 🔥🔥🔥 #ProspectOne#Nationalspic.twitter.com/JDcNncR82s

— The Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) October 27, 2026

There is a lot to sort out on this 40-man roster, and I think it could look very different in the coming weeks. Of course, if you want to sign a free agent, that player will also need to take a spot. Once the lockout starts, the 40-man is frozen, but between now and then I think we will see a ton of movement.

Another thing to consider is the non-tender decisions. We talked about Jake Irvin as a potential non-tender candidate yesterday. However, the Nats have 7 other arbitration eligible players and there are some interesting decisions. Jake Bird, Mitchell Parker, Ken Waldichuk and Richard Lovelady are some other names I could see being non-tendered.

Jake Irvin has been around for a while now but the last two years have not been good. Will he be on the Nats next year? Honestly I could see it going either way https://t.co/12omN8sxoC

— federalbaseball (@federalbaseball) October 28, 2026

With no free agents coming off the books, the Nats have a uniquely crowded 40-man roster to sort through right now. There will probably be double-digit changes between now and December 2nd. Most of those will be on the pitching side, but I do not think the position player group will be totally spared.

Jose Tena and Drew Millas are the two likeliest candidates to go. Neither had a great season and there are players in the minors who can take their jobs. I think Maxwell Romero will be the Nats third catcher in 2027, while Cayden Wallace could take reps from Tena.

Overall, the 40-man roster movement will be something to monitor as we enter the offseason. With the lockout on the horizon, I could see teams being very busy to get their rosters in the best position possible before they freeze. We know Paul Toboni is an active GM, and I think he will make a lot of moves this next month.

With the 2026 season now over, here is every transaction for the Los Angeles Dodgers from the end of the 2026 postseason to the beginning of spring training camp in 2027, whenever the latter is..

The collective bargaining agreement expires on December 1, 2026, and a lockout is expected, during which time no major league transactions will happen. The last lockout, during the 2021-22 offseason, did not lead to a new CBA until March 10, and the start of the 2022 regular season was pushed back by two weeks.

Here will keep track of every single transaction involving the 40-man roster here, including players signed, non-tendered, added to 40-man roster, trades, waiver claims, getting designated for assignment, or released.

Here’s a look at how the Dodgers roster looked on the first day of the offseason.

Every Dodgers transaction has its own section on True Blue LA, and you can click on any link below to get detailed information on each roster move. Here are all the roster moves during the 2026 season as well.

Note: On a mobile device, this table will show up best in landscape mode.

No.	Pitchers (21)	Bat/throw	2027 age	Service	Options (used)
78	Ben Casparius	RHP	28	2.016	2 (2024)
58	Jake Cousins	RHP	32	4.091	1 (’22,’24)
3	Edwin Díaz	RHP	33	10.121	n/a
86	Jack Dreyer	LHP	28	2.000	3 (none)
65	Paul Gervase	RHP	27	0.059	1 (’25-26)
31	Tyler Glasnow	RHP	33	9.158	n/a
56	Seth Halvorsen	RHP	27	1.137	2 (2026)
60	Edgardo Henriquez	RHP	25	1.164	2 (2025)
63	Kyle Hurt	RHP	29	2.057	1 (’24,’26)
61	Will Klein	RHP	27	1.081	2 (2024)
96	Landon Knack	RHP	29	1.079	0 (’24-26)
83	Ronan Kopp	LHP	24	0.000	2 (2026)
28	Bobby Miller	RHP	28	2.119	1 (’24-25)
11	Roki Sasaki	RHP	25	2.000	3 (none)
66	Tanner Scott	LHP	32	8.059	n/a
80	Emmet Sheehan	RHP	27	3.063	2 (2023)
7	Blake Snell	LHP	34	10.072	n/a
41	Brock Stewart	RHP	35	5.093	0 (’16-19)
35	Gavin Stone	RHP	28	3.034	2 (2023)
70	Justin Wrobleski	LHP	26	1.150	2 (2024)
18	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	RHP	28	3.000	n/a
No.	Two-way players (1)	Bat/throw	2027 age	Service	Options (used)
17	Shohei Ohtani	L/R	32	9.000	n/a
No.	Catchers (4)	Bat/throw	2027 age	Service	Options (used)
64	Eliezer Alfonzo	S/R	27	0.054	2 (2026)
46	Hunter Feduccia	L/R	30	1.095	1 (’24-25)
68	Dalton Rushing	L/R	26	1.138	3 (none)
16	Will Smith	R/R	32	7.090	n/a
No.	Infielders (4)	Bat/throw	2027 age	Service	Options (used)
50	Mookie Betts	R/R	34	12.070	n/a
76	Alex Freeland	S/R	25	1.004	1 (’25-26)
5	Freddie Freeman	L/R	37	16.033	n/a
13	Max Muncy	L/R	37	10.027	n/a
No.	Outfielders (5)	Bat/throw	2027 age	Service	Options (used)
12	Alex Call	R/R	32	3.161	2 (2024)
95	Josue De Paula	L/L	22	0.017	3 (none)
37	Teoscar Hernández	R/R	34	9.097	n/a
44	Andy Pages	R/R	26	2.155	1 (’23-24)
23	Kyle Tucker	L/R	30	7.079	n/a
No.	Infielder/outfielders (2)	Bat/throw	2027 age	Service	Options (used)
25	Tommy Edman	S/R	32	7.114	n/a
6	Hyeseong Kim	L/R	28	1.032	1 (’25-26)

Click on the dates below for more detailed information on each transaction:

October 29: Tarik Skubal, Miguel Rojas, Kiké Hernández, Evan Phillips, Alex Vesia, Blake Treinen, Brusdar Graterol, Eric Lauer, and Kris Bubic filed for free agency.

With the NFL trade deadline just under two weeks away, November 10th, the Arizona Cardinals have some decisions to make.

They are clearly in a transition with their team and roster, and that could mean moving on from high priced veterans that are at the end of their football time.

ESPN came out with their “Ranking the top 25 candidates to move, plus team fits” article and the Arizona Cardinals had two players listed at candidates to be moved.

From ESPN:

3. Josh Sweat, Edge, Arizona Cardinals

What Fowler is hearing: Rival teams could see him getting moved. “Sweat to Dallas makes a lot of sense to me,” an NFC exec said. “That’s a profile fit.” Rumblings persist that Sweat would want a new contract — he’s in the second year of a four-year, $76 million deal — and that could complicate things. But many teams are looking for an edge rusher.

9. Budda Baker, S, Arizona Cardinals

What Fowler is hearing: A few wins won’t camouflage Arizona’s transitional state — and it needs draft capital to finish the rebuild. Baker, who has seven consecutive Pro Bowls and has 3.5 sacks on the season, could help get the Cardinals some extra picks. Long a favorite in coaching circles, Baker would garner strong interest. He’s owed $16.2 million this year and $17.8 million next year. People I’ve talked to believe the Cardinals should try to get something for Baker.

Trading Sweat at this juncture seems like a forgone conclusion, especially with him being relatively healthy through the first seven weeks of the season after an offseason of no work with the team. So, getting something for Sweat now makes sense.

Baker is a tough one. He is entering the legacy phase of his time in Arizona, where his on field work for a miserable defense isn’t quite as good as it was years ago, but he is still likely their best defensive player (which is another article in itself of why this isn’t good). However, on a team that just needs safety help, he likely would be a major asset. The problem, is a late day two or even worse a day three pick worth moving on?

What are your thoughts?