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On January 18, 2016, the Tigers inked Justin Upton to a six-year, $132.75MM free agent contract. The first overall pick of the 2005 draft was a three-time All-Star and two-time Silver Slugger Award winner. He was MLBTR’s fourth-ranked free agent of the 2015-16 free agent class. Entering his age-28 season, he was coming off a 4.2 bWAR campaign in his only year with the Padres. In short, he was a get. Upton wouldn’t stay long, however. He was gone by mid-2017, traded to the Angels, who re-worked his contract to avoid an opt-out clause Upton could have triggered after 2017. Had he stayed in...

NL Central Transaction Update 2/3/21 Share this story Hader: $2,575,000 raise Woodruff: $2,641,900 raise No arbitration cases remaining. 1/21/21: Signed UT Daniel Robertson to a 1-year, $900,000 major league contract. 40-man roster at 38. Robertson was originally drafted by the Oakland Athletics out of high school with a supplemental first round pick (#34 overall) in the 2012 draft that the club received as compensation for losing Josh Willingham to the Minnesota Twins in free agency. He never has lived up to his first-round billing. After a 2014 season in High-A ball that saw him lead t...

The Pirates began the offseason with 19 arbitration-eligible players, but they thinned that group down to nine entering Friday’s deadline. They previously agreed to three arbitration-avoiding deals prior to the non-tender deadline: reliever Michael Feliz for $1 million, shortstop Erik González for $1.225 million and Jameson Taillon for $2.25 million. The Pirates’ last arbitration hearing was in 2017, when they won their case against former closer Tony Watson. Here’s a rundown of the players who avoided arbitration on Friday and where they might fit with the Pirates, both the rest of th...

January 15, 2021 The Giants continued to remake their starting rotation this week, signing former Dodgers swingman Alex Wood to a one-year, $3 million contract. Wood’s low salary reflects the fact that he’s struggled over the last two seasons, accumulating -0.2 WAR in 48 1/3 innings, courtesy of a bleak 6.02 FIP. The catch is that he was not truly healthy in either campaign, missing much of 2019 with back issues and a chunk of ’20 with shoulder inflammation. While he’s never been the picture of perfect health — he hasn’t qualified for an ERA title since 2015 — he was a key cont...