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As Major League Baseball’s hot stove gets fired up for the winter of 2025-26, rumors are swirling about where the game’s best free agents will be signing in the months to come
Outfielder Kyle Tucker, who spent 2025 with the Cubs, is widely considered the best player on the free agent market and could fetch a deal in excess of $400 million. There’s plenty of other All-Stars available including Bo Bichette, Alex Bregman, Pete Alonso and Framber Valdez.
Where will the best available players land? USA TODAY Sports’ MLB writers and editors give their predictions for the top free agents in this winter’s class:
- Bob Nightengale: Blue Jays
- Gabe Lacques: Yankees
- Jesse Yomtov: Dodgers
- Nightengale: Atlanta
- Lacques: Blue Jays
- Yomtov: Blue Jays
- Nightengale: Red Sox
- Lacques: Cubs
- Yomtov: Red Sox
- Nightengale: Blue Jays
- Lacques: Giants
- Yomtov: Orioles
- Nightengale: Red Sox
- Lacques: Mets
- Yomtov: Mets
- Nightengale: Yankees
- Lacques: Diamondbacks
- Yomtov: Giants
- Nightengale: Phillies
- Lacques: Phillies
- Yomtov: Phillies
- Nightengale: Atlanta
- Lacques: Orioles
- Yomtov: Giants
- Nightengale: Mets
- Lacques: Phillies
- Yomtov: Mets
- Nightengale: Mets
- Lacques: Dodgers
- Yomtov: Blue Jays
- Nightengale: Cubs
- Lacques: Tigers
- Yomtov: Cubs
