Free company begins 5 days after the tip of the World Sequence. As in different current seasons, FanGraphs is as soon as once more facilitating a contract crowdsourcing undertaking, with the concept being to harness the knowledge of the group to higher perceive and undertaking the 2025-26 free agent market.
Lately, we’ve added a couple of options to those ballots based mostly on reader suggestions. You now have the choice to point {that a} participant will solely obtain a minor league contract, or gained’t obtain one in any respect. If there’s a participant possibility, workforce possibility, or decide out in a participant’s contract, you’ll have the ability to point out whether or not you assume he’ll stay along with his present workforce or grow to be a free agent. Numbers are prorated to full season the place famous. The projected statistics and WAR figures are from the primary lower of the 2026 ZiPS projections.
Beneath are ballots for eight of this yr’s potential free brokers — on this case, a bunch of gamers who started their professional careers in affiliated ball earlier than transitioning to NPB or the KBO, and who may eye a return to MLB this winter. For extra detailed scouting info, you’ll want to learn their reviews on The Board, in addition to Eric Longenhagen and James Fegan’s current piece on the gamers who could possibly be coming over from Asian professional leagues this offseason.