The Padres and Dodgers are severe World Collection threats partly because of all their terrific offers. The NL West rivals are the leaders on our record of one of the best acquisitions for 2024:
1. Braves purchase Chris Sale for Vaughn Grissom: Did anybody see Sale reclaiming greatness, and even bettering on it?
2. Dodgers signal Shohei Ohtani for $700M (deferred): They at all times had a hometown edge for the reason that Angels apparently wished to keep away from a 3rd mega-contract.
3. Cubs signal Shota Imanaga for $53M: Imanaga has outperformed even the $325M Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
4. Yankees purchase Juan Soto: He’s placing collectively his greatest full season, however they did hand over Michael King, Randy Vasquez, Jhony Brito, Kyle Higashioka and Drew Thorpe, who the Padres well become Dylan Stop. Nice for each groups.
5. Royals signal Seth Lugo for $45M: Did anybody (in addition to Lugo) see the ex-Mets reliever main MLB in innings?
6. Braves signal Reynaldo Lopez for $30M: Earlier than heading to the IL, he was practically pretty much as good as Sale.
7. Mets signal Luis Severino and Sean Manaea: The co-aces might be free brokers. (Manaea will certainly opt-out however stated, on The Submit podcast “The Present,” he’d like to return.)
8. Padres signal Jurickson Profar for $1M: He’s third in win likelihood added behind Soto and Aaron Choose.
9. Orioles purchase Zach Eflin: Eflin’s brilliance in Birdland has given them an opportunity after rotation accidents decimated them.
10. Dodgers signal Teoscar Hernandez for $23M: Hernandez lengthened one of the best prime of a lineup ever.
11. Astros Purchase Yusei Kikuchi: Giving up three good younger gamers was of venture, however Kikuchi was a godsend.
12. Yankees purchase Jazz Chisholm: He’s added vitality and lengthened the lineup.
13. Padres purchase Luis Arraez: He’s set a tone for contact all through the one lineup with fewer than 1,000 strikeouts.
14. Dodgers purchase Jack Flaherty, Michael Kopech and Tommy Edman: Flaherty has been enormous for a rotation decimated by accidents, Kopech apparently simply wanted to get out of the South Facet, and Edman gave them one more versatility champion.
15. Padres purchase Tanner Scott, Bryan Hoeing and Jason Adam: Shutdown bullpen!
16. Diamondbacks purchase A.J. Puk: Not solely does he have 31 strikeouts, two walks and 0.47 ERA, they’ve bought one other two years of management.
17. D’backs signal Joc Pederson for $9.5M: The clutch slugger might be an October risk after a pleasant yr.
18. Giants signal Matt Chapman to $54M deal (with two opts): Extending him later for $151M reveals what a wise deal that first one was.
19. Padres purchase Dylan Stop: They have been very busy, and the result’s a greater document with a payroll decrease by $85M.
20. Brewers purchase Aaron Civale and Frankie Montas: They rebuilt a rotation with two stable pickups, however their greatest transfer was in all probability signing phenom Jackson Chourio for $82M.
