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Kiley McDaniel
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Kiley McDaniel
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ESPN Baseball Insider. Trying to tell the future. DMs open. Former: FanGraphs & four MLB teams.
- BREAKING: Freddie Freeman has agreed to terms with the Dodgers on a six-year, $162 million deal according to @JeffPassan and me.
- BREAKING: New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole opted out of his contract, sources tell me and @JeffPassan. The Yankees can void the opt-out by adding one year and $36 million to the four years and $144 million that Cole had remaining on his deal.
- Sources: the Atlanta Braves notified their full-time and part-time employees yesterday that they would be paid through May 31. They are the first known MLB club to give their employees assurances beyond the end of April or beginning of May.
- Source: Turner is getting 11 years, $300 million with a full no trade clauseBREAKING: Shortstop Trea Turner and the Philadelphia Phillies are in agreement on a contract, a source tells ESPN.
- Replying to @kileymcdSaw Druw Jones tonight (son of Andruw), my top prospect for the 2022 draft. Hostile road crowd and faced 90-93 mph from Georgia State commit Brady Jones. Amidst chants of "overrated" he hits a rocket dead central. Friend helped me with a side angle @espn @jones_druw
00:00 - BREAKING: Chicago Cubs CF/1B Cody Bellinger picked up his $27.5 million player option for the 2025 season and will not be a free agent, sources tell me and @JeffPassan.
- Get on board or don’t, this is the best of our sport and we need more of it
- Ole Miss would like a word with the baseball is boring crowd
00:00 - Source: players are voting now on MLB’s CBA proposal, many already have cast their vote.
- Right-hander Brayan Bello and the Boston Red Sox are in agreement on a six-year, $55 million contract extension that includes a seventh-year club option for $21 million, sources tell ESPN. The Sox lock up the 24-year-old into the 2030s.
- LHP Jordan Montgomery has hired Wasserman’s Joel Wolfe & Nick Chanock as his agents, per sources. Montgomery was one of the Boras Four, who were unsigned late into free agency. I projected he would get 5 yrs, $106M and he eventually signed for 1 yr, $25M w/Arizona on March 26.
- BREAKING: Cubs and Dansby Swanson have an agreement on a seven-year deal for $177 million, per source.BREAKING: Shortstop Dansby Swanson and the Chicago Cubs are finalizing an agreement on a contract, sources tell ESPN.
