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• An updated look at the free agent market

Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images The market is thinning, but there are still plenty of names out there The free agent market has been highly active as of late, between MLB Winter Meetings and a fairly active weekend leading up to it. With so many names off the board, let’s take a position by position look at the top names (anybody with positive WAR) remaining. Each player’s 2025 seasonal age an...2024
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• Maton hits free agency after Mets decline option
Right-hander Phil Maton became a free agent Monday after the New York Mets declined his $7,775,000 option in favor of a $250,000 buyout....2024
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• Mets Decline Team Option On Phil Maton
The Mets have declined their $7.75MM team option on right-hander Phil Maton, according to Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The 31-year-old will receive a $250K buyout and return to free agency. More to come…...2024
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• Ranking this off-season’s free agents

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Will the Royals spend on any? The World Series begins tomorrow, and immediately after they crown a champion, eligible players become free agents. The Royals were one of the most active teams last off-season, and GM J.J. Picollo has said he expects the same kind of financial flexibility from ownership this season. Which free agents could th...2024
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• Mark Vientos took it personal and took the NLCS back to New York tied

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Sometimes all you need is one spark and Mark Vientos found the spark that he needed for the biggest hit of his Postseason so far. As the old baseball axiom goes, “momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.” In a world where momentum does exist and has a real and tangible impact on a series of baseball games, the Los Angeles Dodgers probably would’ve continu...2024
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• Brewers rally for huge 5-3 win over Mets in NL Wild Card Series, force game three on Thursday

Mark Hoffman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Chourio, Mitchell come up with huge homers as bullpen shuts down Mets’ bats Box Score The Milwaukee Brewers fought their way back from an early deficit to take down the Mets in a potential elimination game at American Family Field on Wednesday night, as rookie phenom Jackson Chourio slugged a pair of homers and Garrett Mitchell hit the go-a...2024
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• Ranking this off-season’s free agents
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• MLB Playoffs: National League Preview

Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani helped lead the Dodgers to the top seed in the NL. Is this the season where they break through and return to the World Series. It took a controversial decision by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and a devastating hurricane but finally, we have a set National League postseason field for the 2024 Playoffs. How about that doubleheader, huh? After 162 games, six teams are...2024
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• Analyzing the Brewers’ potential wild card opponents

Allan Henry-Imagn Images With the Brewers currently sitting as the third seed in the NL, they’d take on the last wild card team in the field Coming off a big series win over the Diamondbacks and a series-opening win over the Phillies, the Brewers’ magic number now sits at two, meaning any combination of two Brewers wins and Cubs losses would clinch the NL Central division. After they surpa...2024
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• Who else could the Rays trade at the deadline?

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Eight more players that could be on the move. The Rays seem like they’re about to pull off a five-year rebuild in the span of three weeks, having already moved several pieces off the roster that were aging, getting expensive, or generally standing in the way of talent on it’s way back from injury or soon to be promoted from the minors. Indeed, there is a...2024
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• Tampa Bay Rays trade deadline primer

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Who will stay and who will go? The MLB trade deadline is fast approaching. This year the deadline falls on Tuesday, July 30th, at 6pm. By the time the deadline arrives, the Tampa Bay Rays could have a very different roster of players. Thus far in 2024, the Rays season has been plagued by injuries, illness, and lackluster play from key contributors. This ...2024
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• Reed Garrett To Undergo MRI On Right Elbow
The Mets announced today that right-hander Phil Maton has been added to the active roster after he was acquired from the Rays yesterday. They also recalled left-hander Danny Young. To open spots for those two, the club optioned righty Eric Orze and placed righty Reed Garrett on the 15-day injured list with right elbow inflammation.…...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 10, 2024

Photo by Zac BonDurant/MLB Photos via Getty Images Baseball America ranks Blake Mitchell the top Royals prospect. Manager Matt Quatraro talks to his hometown paper in New York about his success this year. “I’m happy with the way we’ve performed,” Quatraro said. “I think every team goes through some stretches like this where you lose some games you should win and vice versa. When you’re go...2024
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• Rays 7, White Sox 8: Windy City Woes

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Rays lose to league-worst White Sox... again. On a cold and windy night in Chicago, the Tampa Bay Rays lost to the worst team in Major League Baseball for a second consecutive night. If you though Friday night might have been rock bottom for a team that is currently being held together by bubble gum and scotch tape, you were wrong. The day started off wi...2024
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• Rays loss to Angels highlights early team struggles

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images Tampa Bay in desperate need of contribution from top of the lineup. Last night’s game in Tropicana field was... ugly The 7-3 loss certainly wasn’t all gloomy, with ace Zack Eflin going six and a third scoreless innings allowing just six hits, however a late game meltdown saw the angels run away with the game at the end leading to a final score that ...2024
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas

Photo by Bailey Orr/Texas Rangers/Getty Images The defending champion Rangers and the relentless Astros dominate the division’s focus, but keep an eye on Seattle. The 2023 American League season came down to a Lone Star State Showdown in the Championship Series. Amazingly, the Houston Astros were back in the LCS for the seventh year in a row, one shy of the record held by the ‘90s Atlanta ...2024
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2024
"Right-handers Jakob Junis and Phil Maton have both drawn interest from the Phillies, Scott Lauber of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports."

2023
"Michael Massey padded the lead in the eighth off reliever Phil Maton with his 14th home run of the year, and his fourth in seven games."

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"Astros reliever Phil Maton out for entire postseason after punching locker and fracturing finger"

2021
"The Astros and Indians have made a trade that will see Cleveland acquire outfielder Myles Straw, while Houston will land right-handed reliever Phil Maton, FOX 26’s Mark Berman reports."

2020
"Right-handers Dominic Leone, Cam Hill, James Karinchak and Phil Maton; infielders Mike Freeman, Yu Chang and Christian Arroyo; and outfielders Greg Allen and Bradley Zimmer have…"

2019
"Reliever Phil Maton was optioned down, while righty Miguel Diaz was shifted to the 60-day injured list to create 40-man space."

2018
"The Padres announced that they’ve placed right-hander Phil Maton on the 10-day disabled list with a a right lat strain."

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"Phil Maton has been making memories during his short time in the Majors."

2016
"Michael Gettys, Franchy Cordero, Brad Wieck, Josh VanMeter, Kyle McGrath, Phil Maton and Jason Jester were all named to the Peoria Javelinas roster."

• An updated look at the free agent market
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• Maton hits free agency after Mets decline option
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• Ranking this off-season’s free agents
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• MLB Playoffs: National League Preview
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers vs. New York Mets

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images It’s the last series of the regular season As the Brewers head home for their final series of the regular season, they know what their schedule will look like. They have three games against the Mets, then a Wild Card series at home. That’s a very relieving situation to be in, especially when you consider the state of the rest of the National League. The s...2024
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• Analyzing the Brewers’ potential wild card opponents
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• Opinion: Yes, we root for laundry. Is that a problem?

Just before or at the trade deadline, the Rays traded Zach Eflin, Chris Devenski, Phil Maton, Shawn Armstrong, Jason Adam, Amed Rosario, All-Star Isaac Paredes, and former ROY and All-Star Randy Arozarena. Some of these players were only here briefly and won’t be missed, but some had clear roles in the team’s present success — Jason Adam was a mainstay of the bullpen; Eflin one of the more depend...2024
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• The Tampa Bay Rays trade acquisitions rankings and assignments

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Rays added 16 new playes to their organization within the last month. Here is where they have assigned The 2024 MLB Trade Deadline has come and gone and the Tampa Bay Rays have completely overhauled their farm system and overall active roster with a total of 8 trades that have brought in 16 players, including a player to be named later...2024
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• Tampa Bay Rays trade deadline primer
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers vs. New York Mets
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• Rays trade veteran reliever Phil Maton to the Mets

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports The Tampa Bay Rays have elected to trade veteran reliever Phil Maton, who they’d signed to a relatively expensive, multi-year deal just before the season began, to the Mets. In doing so, we are starting to see some trends in the Rays actions. The first is that the Rays have been early movers in the trade market to clear a veteran off the books for a young pit...2024
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• Braves set to host Rays in clash of hard-luck contenders

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Two teams whose seasons have deviated from the proverbial rails will battle it out in Atlanta this weekend At this point, you likely know all about the Braves’ trials and tribulations in 2024. At 36-30, the Braves are far below where they were expecting to be by the time mid-June rolled around. This weekend, though, they’ll play host to another team tha...2024
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• Rays 2, Angels 1: A low-scoring win gives Rays a series W

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports It was an early scoring, close game, but a win is a win is a win. The Thursday day game saw Pepiot take on Canning, so let’s see how that unfolded at hope at the Trop. In the top of the first, the Angels went down in order. The Rays wasted no time getting on the board in the bottom of the inning as Richie Palacios drew a walk, and then Amed Rosario tripl...2024
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Baby Birds zoomed up to 101 wins and the division crown in 2023, and their nest of prospects only continues to grow. For almost a decade, the daunting AL East was dominated by the high-profile New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, as well as the perennially savvy Tampa Bay Rays. In 2023, however, the division champion was none of those three teams; inst...2024
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• Rays sign RHP Phil Maton

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports He’s already pretty good. Do the Rays need to tinker? It took some time, as the Rays waited until they could use the 60-day injured list to open a roster spot, but quality reliever Phil Maton has opted to join the Rays on a multi-year deal, with a $6.25 million salary and a $250K buyout on a $7.75 million club option for the 2025 season. Our own Danie...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: Houston Astros

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Dana Brown’s team projects to be right at the top of the AL once again in 2024. The Astros have had a fantastic run for nearly a decade now, emerging from their protracted, performative, brutal rebuild in 2015. In that span, they have brought home two World Series titles, coming in 2017 and 2022, although the one from 2017 is tainted by the sign-steali...2024
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• Mark Vientos took it personal and took the NLCS back to New York tied
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• Braves bullpen picks an awful time to collapse in 8-7 loss to Mets

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Spencer Schwellenbach dominated the Mets again but his relievers let him down in a major way. Despite Spencer Schwellenbach delivering another great performance for the Atlanta Braves against the New York Mets, Atlanta’s bullpen picked the worst possible time during this regular season to deliver one of their worst performances of the...2024
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• Who else could the Rays trade at the deadline?
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• Tampa Bay Rays trade deadline primer
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• Welcome To Atlanta Where The Players Play: Rays 3, Braves 7

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Rays’ Early Hope Shattered by Braves’ Big Bats The Tampa Bay Rays opened their series against the Atlanta Braves with a glimmer of hope before proceeding to get A-town stomped in a 7-3 loss. The Rays had a glimmer of hope, taking an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Yandy Díaz led off with a single, and Randy Arozarena was hit by a pitch, putting r...2024
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• Rays 1, Royals 8: Rays fail to score after first inning

Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports And fail to win after the ninth. Happy Friday, friends! It was time for a nacho party in Randyland as Seth Lugo and Shawn Armstrong squared off (with Armstrong only out for two innings), so let’s see how things went down at the Trop tonight. The Royals went 1-2-3 in the top of the first. In the bottom half Brandon Lowe got a one-out single, then Jonny ...2024
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• Rays loss to Angels highlights early team struggles
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
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$Astros reliever Phil Maton out for entire postseason after punching locker and fracturing finger$
• Astros reliever Phil Maton out for entire postseason after punching locker and fracturing finger

Maton injured himself following his final outing of the regular season...2022
• Zerpa shoves, Royals rap three homers in 4-2 win over Astros

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Take that, defending champs. Angel Zerpa was fantastic in a long relief outing where he pitched four innings with five strikeouts, allowing one walk and one run in a 4-2 win over the Astros Friday night. The Royals smacked three solo home runs and led from start to finish against the defending world champions. The Royals stranded a pair of runners in the ...2023
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• Yainer Diaz To Be Astros’ Primary Catcher In 2024
Astros’ general manager Dana Brown spoke with KPRC 2 yesterday about the club’s priorities. He naturally listed bullpen as a target area with Phil Maton, Hector Neris and Ryne Stanek set to become free agents. He also said that the club will need a backup catcher for Yainer Diaz, who is going to be “the…...2023
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• A few thoughts about the Cubs’ lack of free agent signings so far

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Yes, this is a risky article to write. But here goes anyway. Today is December 18. We stand 67 days away from the Cubs’ first Spring Training game and 101 days from Opening Day 2024. And yet, I have read many, many, MANY comments on this site lamenting the Cubs “not doing anything,” claiming the offseason is a failure, wondering whether the Cubs’ front of...2023
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• Yoshinobu Yamamoto is a Dodger. What’s next for the Cubs?

Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitches during the 2023 World Baseball Classic | Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images Will the free agent logjam break now? This is a companion piece to my “Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger. What’s next for the Cubs?” article posted a couple of weeks ago when Ohtani signed to play the next decade for the Dodgers. Here are the details of the deal that righthander Yoshinobu Yamamoto...2023
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• Astros Set Record With Two Immaculate Innings Against Rangers

Luis Garcia and Phil Maton each recorded a three-strikeout inning on nine pitches. That they accomplished the feat against the same three Rangers batters added some absurdity....2022
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• Phillies Interested In Jakob Junis, Phil Maton
Right-handers Jakob Junis and Phil Maton have both drawn interest from the Phillies, Scott Lauber of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Beyond these two specific names, Lauber speculates that the Phillies have “likely” explored most other available relievers on the market, as the club continues to look for depth in its pitching ranks. Junis would be…...2024
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• Astros, Indians Swap Myles Straw For Phil Maton
The Astros and Indians have made a trade that will see Cleveland acquire outfielder Myles Straw, while Houston will land right-handed reliever Phil Maton, FOX 26’s Mark Berman reports. More to come…...2021
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• Ranking this off-season’s free agents
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• Brewers rally for huge 5-3 win over Mets in NL Wild Card Series, force game three on Thursday
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• MLB Playoffs: National League Preview
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• Braves bullpen picks an awful time to collapse in 8-7 loss to Mets
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• 2024 Trade Deadline Open Thread

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images IT’S DEADLINE DAY! The 2024 MLB Trade Deadline has arrived and the Tampa Bay Rays have been the most active team in baseball, having already completed several deals and trading away Aaron Civale, Phil Maton, Randy Arozarena, Jason Adam, Zach Eflin, Amed Rosario, and Isaac Paredes. Here’s a quick recap, with links: Rays trade Aaron Civale to the Brewers ...2024
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• Rays 4 Mariners 3: Late comeback leads to a victorious series opener

Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images I’ll be honest: when the Rays were down 3-1 and had two outs in the bottom of the eighth, I started writing this recap. It was all about the Rays anemic offense and the mystery of why Chris Devenski continues to pitch meaningful innings on this team. But while I was writing, a funny thing happened: the Rays strung together a bunch of walks and hit...2024
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• Astros series preview: Astroball keeps winning

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images With the sign-stealing scandal behind them, the Astros just keep on winning. There are only two weeks left in the season, but the Royals and Astros will play each other for the first time this year, meeting again in Houston next weekend. The Astros continue to roll on as a juggernaut, with the third-best record in the American League, but holding onto a...2023
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