Bold predictions for the rest of the low season of MLB

This is what our experts believe that it could happen until the beginning of spring training, from free agency to drama outside the field.
With the recent departure of the Roki Sasaki table, Tanner Scott and Anthony Santander, the MLB free agency has entered the final stretch, but there are still many important movements to come in the last month before the spring training arrives .
Where will the remaining best free agents land, including Pete Alonso and Alex Bregman? Will we see more exchanges of great success? And the Toronto Blue Jays and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will reach an extension to prevent the star from becoming a free agent after the 2025 season?
We ask our MLB experts to risk and make a bold prediction on how it will end this winter full of action.
Free agency
Jorge Castillo: Pete Alonso will sign with the New York Mets.
Alonso, a beloved local star in Queens, is still a free agent. The Mets, with money to spend, could still use another right -hand batter. A meeting seems almost too obvious. Add the fact that both parties are open to a three -year agreement with termination options, according to a source, and it is only a matter of believing that it will not happen when Alonso Firm in the points line to play elsewhere.
Yes, the METS have recently begun to spend money in other places (Jesse Winker and Aj Minter). Yes, they could move Mark winds through the diamond and give the third -base work to Brett Bitch, Ronny Mauricio or Luisangel Acuña. Yes, Alonso is a first base that is on the wrong side of the 30 with defensive limitations and little value in the bases. But Alonso is one of the most prolific homes in baseball since he debuted in 2019. He has shown that he can prosper in New York City. Place it behind Juan Soto, which would give him more fast balls to devour, and Alonso will continue to be one of the most productive power batters in the largest during the next three seasons.
The Mets have had a great winter, but the Dodgers have created a superequipo with the Philadelphia Phillies, the Atlanta Braves, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres also fighting for supremacy in the National League. The competition is hard. Perhaps the negotiations between the two parties have burned the bridge to an agreement. But not much would be needed to build another and make it happen.
David Schoenfield: Alex Bregman to … Los Angeles Dodgers.
Why should Dodgers stop now? If Bregman can’t find the great agreement he wants, Dodgers could be a surprise option. Max Muncy is a free agent after 2025 and is prone to get stuck. Hyseong Kim’s bat is more projected as a utilitarian box player than as a second starting base. Bregman can change between the second and third base in 2025 and then replace Muncy in 2026. Too much money even for Dodgers? Actually, no. Between Muncy, Chris Taylor, Michael Conforto and Miguel Rojas, the Dodgers will have $ 49.5 million that will leave their books after this season (and the body of pitchers is prepared for years).
Bradford Doolittle: Bregman will sign with the Detroit Tigers.
There are many reasons why this makes sense, with the exception that it is a positional player that would fit well since Detroit incorporated another player in the interior box in Gleyber Torres. However, the tigers have a payroll space to add Bregman and his positional versatility gives the team a lot of freedom of action to decide how to use it during the duration of the contract. It could be a starter in any of the positions of the inner picture, and Detroit could move the players around Torres to work several configurations. Bregman would be the perfect veteran presence for a young team at the beginning of a new victory window. His story with the manager Aj Fanch gives him a comfort zone. Bregman has to end somewhere and this is what makes the most for me.
Exchanges
Alden Gonzalez: the San Diego Padres will make a great agreement.
Less than four months ago, the parents had the Dodgers against the strings in the division series of the National League, and only needed a house victory to eliminate Los Angeles once again. Since then, the general manager of the parents, AJ Preller, has seen his hated rivals not only defeat the team that is possibly the most complete he has gathered, but to win the World Series and then proceed to virtually hire all the players who They want, including Sasaki, the Japanese phenomenon that Preller more coveted. And as for Preller himself? January is about to finish and has not added anything to its major league squad.
There is no possibility that this will continue. And because the class of free agents has been significantly reduced and money is still scarce in San Diego, it is expected that Preller will make a great exchange before spring training, of the type we have seen of it often. There are still holes in the rotation of the parents and in all their alignment. Dylan Cease, Robert Suárez, Luis Arráez and Jake Cronenworth can be acquired, and the assumption here is that at least one of those four will leave. Preller has remained firm for too long. It won’t continue like this.
Jesse Rogers: The Boston Red Sox will negotiate for Nolan Arenado.
After exhausting attempts to sign Bregman, the Red Sox focus on sand while the St. Louis Cardinals begin to show some despair with the season approaching. The adjustment in St. Louis simply is no longer adequate and everyone knows. Cardinals are not worried about the money that is due to sand, so they are willing to assume a part because they want quality prospects in return. Boston can offer that.
Eric Karabell: Arenado will be exchanged for the Seattle Mariners.
The cardinals have made it clear that they must let go to sand to install Nolan Gorman in the third base. We have heard rumors that the red socks, the tiles and other teams are interested. We have not heard of the sailors, but all they have done is to hire the Donovan Solano service player. The sandy ever could never return – at least the bat – but the cardinals seem so desperate that it is enough to see them handle most of their contract and leave the general manager of the sailors, Jerry Dipoto, with few options. Arenado comes from one of his worst seasons, but to this alignment of the sailors they would make him average batter of the league at this time.
The future of Vlad Jr. in Toronto
Paul Hembekides: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will reject an extension of $ 400 million with the Blue Jays.
February 18. That is the first training with Toronto’s complete team and, more importantly, the self -imposed deadline for extension conversations between Vlad Jr. and the organization.
Guerrero, who will turn 26 on March 16, is entering his year of walking in a timely man Sixth place as a more valuable player in the American League. The Blue Jays must pay to retain their local star: they will offer an extension of $ 400 million within next month, but he will reject his proposals and seek free agency.
Kiley McDaniel: Toronto will reach an extension with Guerrero.
Obviously it is easier to predict that something will not happen (such as Vlad Jr. Seek to try the market next winter or wait for a better Toronto offer) than to predict that an agreement will be reached. That said, Toronto needs to make a great movement, and after Shohei Ohtani, Soto and Sasaki were not that movement, the pressure is on.
Extending Vlad Jr.’s contract is the movement that Jays can make as their main movement of the low season. The more they wait, the more likely a team with a different economic reality jumps next winter to overcome what Toronto can offer exclusively now. The price is a question: I think it would begin with the extension of 10 years and $ 313.5 million of Rafael Devers from two years ago and adjust for inflation. Anyway, it is an AAV that Jays can tolerate, and it is a franchise movement that they need to do as soon as possible.
Drama off the field
Buster Olney: The players will start complaining about having to play in a minor leagues park.
Do you remember how last year the quality of the uniforms suddenly became a big problem and we began to listen a lot of the players about it? Well, at some point in the next two months, the fact that Athletics will play in a smaller league park will become something important. The players will soon face face to face with the reality that they will play in Sacrament They will extend throughout the regular season. As with uniforms: it will be a misfortune.