The Padres and Dodgers are severe World Sequence threats partly due to all their terrific offers. The NL West rivals are the leaders on our checklist of the perfect 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 all the time 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 finest full season, however they did surrender 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 (apart from 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 nearly as good as Sale.
7. Mets signal Luis Severino and Sean Manaea: The co-aces shall be free brokers. (Manaea will certainly opt-out however stated, on The Publish 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 Decide.
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 the perfect prime of a lineup ever.
11. Astros Purchase Yusei Kikuchi: Giving up three good younger gamers was a raffle, 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 large for a rotation decimated by accidents, Kopech apparently simply wanted to get out of the South Facet, and Edman gave them yet 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 acquired one other two years of management.
17. D’backs signal Joc Pederson for $9.5M: The clutch slugger might be an October menace after a pleasant yr.
18. Giants signal Matt Chapman to $54M deal (with two opts): Extending him later for $151M exhibits what a wise deal that first one was.
19. Padres purchase Dylan Stop: They had been very busy, and the result’s a greater report with a payroll decrease by $85M.
20. Brewers purchase Aaron Civale and Frankie Montas: They rebuilt a rotation with two stable pickups, however their finest transfer was most likely signing phenom Jackson Chourio for $82M.
