Mlb Trade Rumors News Updates

The Samsung Lions of the Korea Baseball Organization announced the signing of right-hander Matt Manning to a one-year, $1MM contract.  Manning was outrighted off the Phillies roster in September, and he elected minor league free agency earlier this month. Manning was once one of baseball’s top pitching prospects, and he… Read more »

The Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball announced the signing of left-hander Jose Castillo.  The Mets chose to non-tender Castillo earlier this month, passing on the southpaw’s projected $1.7MM arbitration salary. The move overseas to Japan may seem like small potatoes given the transactional maelstrom that was Castillo’s 2025… Read more »

The Blue Jays had “at least preliminary interest” in Ryan Helsley before the right-hander signed with the Orioles, The Athletic’s Mitch Bannon reports.  Toronto has shown past interest (both last offseason and at the trade deadline) in trading for Helsley when he was still a member of the Cardinals, so… Read more »

Mark P It’s Sunday night and time to chat! We’ll launch things after the queue starts to fill up… Anthony Tucker and Imai for the Yanks? Mark P I’d be surprised to see New York spend to quite that level in bringing in two top-level guys.  Bellinger and Imai seem like… Read more »

Giants team chairman Greg Johnson and general manager Zack Minasian have each downplayed the idea that the team will be pursuing long-term (and therefore more pricier) pitching signings this offseason, due to both the risk associated with such contracts and the number of lengthy and expensive contracts already on San… Read more »

Mets right-hander Kodai Senga has indicated to the club that he would prefer to remain in Queens for next season rather than be traded elsewhere this winter, according to a report from Will Sammon of The Athletic. Sammon adds, however, that the Mets might still trade him this offseason. Senga’s… Read more »

The Rays are known to be perusing the market for shorter-term starting pitching help as they look to fill out their 2026 rotation, and Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports that a pair of familiar names are being discussed by the team as potential targets: right-handers Zach Eflin… Read more »

The Nationals are hiring Desmond McGowan to lead their amateur scouting department, according to a report from Joe Doyle of Over-Slot Baseball. McGowan’s title will be director of amateur acquisitions. McGowan got his start in baseball with the Yankees as an analytics associate in 2019 before jumping to the Mets… Read more »

In the aftermath of the Sonny Gray trade, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow made it clear that the team’s plan was to focus on upgrading an offense that saw Alex Bregman opt out of his contract and head back to free agency this winter (not to mention traded… Read more »

The Orioles have signed right-hander Ryan Helsley to a two-year contract, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports.  The deal will pay Helsley $28MM in total, as per The Athletic’s Katie Woo.  Helsley can opt out of the contract following the 2026 season, and the deal will be finalized once he passes a… Read more »