{"id":598384,"date":"2026-02-28T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/598384\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:58:12","slug":"the-last-man-in-free-agent-tournament-the-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/598384\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cLast Man In\u201d free agent tournament: The finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ve reached the finals of the \u201cLast Man In\u201d free agent tournament! I took the last free agent signed before the season for the last 16 years and let the readers decide which was the best. And let\u2019s face it, it was always going to come down to these two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Accolades: Two All-Star teams, two top ten Cy Young Award finishes, 15th in MVP voting in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In his second stint with the Phillies, Lee made 106 starts and only walked 114 batters. The guy really did not like walking people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Accolades: Two All-Star teams, three Silver Slugger awards, one MVP award, two top ten MVP finishes<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After hitting into a career-high 18 double plays in 2024, Harper only hit five of them last year. What does this mean? I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Who should win? Vote now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve reached the finals of the \u201cLast Man In\u201d free agent tournament! I took the last free agent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,4,144,25,4216,40,72344],"class_list":{"0":"post-598384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","12":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","13":"tag-phillies","14":"tag-phillies-features"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116149322018319014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}