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The home run was Suzuki’s first since coming off the IL with an oblique strain. The injury came at an inopportune time with Suzuki slashing .305/.368/.525 with a 151 wRC+ before getting hurt. Wednesday is a great sign that he’s fully healthy and ready to start another hot streak.

Miley will receive a $1.5 million buyout and is now a free agent. He’s recovering from Tommy John surgery that will keep him sidelined for at least the first few months of the 2025 season. Miley turns 38 in November so it’s fair to wonder if he’ll even continue playing. He was 9-4 with a 3.14 ERA, 1.13 WHIP and 79 strikeouts in 23 starts for the Brewers in 2023, but went down with an elbow injury after only two starts in 2024. Miley has won 108 games with a 4.07 ERA in his 14-year career. He made the All-Star team and was second in the NL Rookie of the Year voting in 2012.

The 28-year-old Gray is a solid defensive third baseman with power, but his inability to hit for average has kept him from getting much of a chance. He has 36 major league plate appearances for three teams, the last 24 of them coming after the A’s picked him up on waivers from the Marlins in mid-August. He went 3-for-21 with 13 strikeouts during his time with Oakland.

Adams, 33, had a 3.92 ERA in 41 1/3 innings for the A’s before missing the final quarter of the season with elbow tightness. He’ll probably have to settle for a minor league deal this winter.

The 34-year-old pitched in 50 games between the Marlins and Orioles’ organizations in 2024, posting a 4.95 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, and 46/12 K/BB ratio in 56 1/3 innings. He has a career 5.79 ERA and was in the Korean Baseball Organization in 2023 so he may have to settle for a minor league deal and win a job in spring training.

Minasian is the brother of Perry Minasian, who is the general manager for the Angels and makes the Minasian Family the first to have two brothers as GMs at the same time in MLB history. Zack Minasian was one of Farhan Zaidi’s first hires when Zaidi was named president of baseball operations. Now that Zaidi has been fired and Buster Posey has taken his place, Posey claimed he wanted a scout as his GM, and Minasian is the Giants’ VP of pro scouting, so he fits the bill. Minasian joined the Giants in 2019 after spending 14 seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers, where he served as a special advisor in the baseball operations department.

It is a major league contract. Despite Covey not pitching in the majors in 2024, he did have 17 starts at Triple-A for the Phillies, posting a 1.35 ERA in those outings. The 33-year-old has leaned on a cutter/splitter pairing a bit more in 2023 which gives him a little bit of intrigue given what the Mets were able to get out of their free-agent signings from last year like Luis Severino and Sean Manaea.

The former first-round pick played in 66 games for the Athletics in 2024 after three seasons with the Tigers; however, he hit just .200/.258/.329 with five home runs, five steals, and a 27.4 percent strikeout rate. He figures to serve as organizational dept in the outfield.

It’s a $2 million buyout on the option and Margot will become a free agent. The 30-year-old hit just .238/.289/.337 in 129 games in 2024 with four home runs and five steals. He still plays above-average outfield defense, so Margot will try to latch on as a fourth outfielder somewhere.

This isn’t entirely surprising. Giolito missed all of the 2024 season after having internal brace surgery on his right elbow in March, so he would have been hard-pressed to find any team willing to offer him that much money in 2025. However, given how early he was hurt, he could be back on the mound for the Red Sox by April or May. An intriguing wrinkle is that the Red Sox would have a $14 million team option on Giolito for 2026 if he doesn’t pitch 140 innings next year. That could be added incentive for the Red Sox to bring him along slowly next year.

One year after resurrecting the careers of Chris Sale and Reynaldo Lopez, the Braves are taking on another project by acquiring the 28-year-old Canning from the Angels. Canning is coming off a season in which he posted a 5.19 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, and a poor 17.6 percent strikeout rate in 171 2/3 innings (31 starts). He has always had a slider that graded out well in pitching models but has failed to build an arsenal around it that can lead to fantasy success. We won’t assume the Braves will be able to help him do that, but they seem as good a team as any to give it a shot. Canning will head into spring training battling for one of the final spots in the rotation.