{"id":525116,"date":"2026-01-17T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/525116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:18:15","slug":"guardians-news-and-notes-free-agent-market-continues-to-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/525116\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News and Notes: Free Agent Market Continues to Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bo Bichette headed to the Mets on a 3-year, $126 million deal and J.T. Realmuto to the Phillies yesterday on a 3-year $45 million deal as the MLB free agent market continued to move. Cody Bellinger remains the last big free agent available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Joel Hammond, former contributor here, had a great thread explaining why it\u2019s not particularly reasonable to think the Guardians are pocketing a bunch of revenue and, again, debunking the idea that Paul has access to the entire Dolan fortune. Yes, he still thinks the Guardians should spend more. It\u2019s worth reading:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2012274968306888752<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Athletic asked 100 people in sports whom they admire as leaders and Stephen Vogt showed up at 31st on a list of 40:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2012147882116391418<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Paul Hoynes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/guardians\/2026\/01\/stephen-vogt-believes-he-has-enough-offense-guardians-quick-hits.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pointed<\/a> out that Stephen Vogt didn\u2019t sound super confident that Steven Kwan would be a Guardian come Spring Training. It is curious to me that Vogt said \u201cI really hope he is in left field leading off for us\u201d rather than \u201cI expect he will be in left field leading off for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Never underestimate how little the Guardians care about fan reactions and feelings, but I shudder to think what the backlash would be if they don\u2019t add anyone significant AND trade Kwan before the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mason Horodyski of WEWS\/News 5 Cleveland posted a bunch of clips of Austin Hedges, Hunter Gaddis and Stephen Vogt talking about the upcoming season on his Twitter if you\u2019re interested in viewing more:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2011939039989924020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bo Bichette headed to the Mets on a 3-year, $126 million deal and J.T. 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