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Sato is just the third NPB hitter to win a Triple Crown this century, with Munetaka Murakami winning the most recent won in 2022. The 27-year-old Sato hit .308/.385/.613 in 142 games with 39 home runs, 106 RBI, and eight steals. Sato is a potential target of MLB teams this offseason, pending what happens with labor negotiations, and Jon Heyman had reported in September that the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, and Phillies had all already been linked to the third baseman. Many people believe his MLB future, like Murakami, will be at first base, but he also has some experience in the corner outfield as well. Sato went 3-for-10 in this year’s World Baseball Classic with a double, three walks, and three batted balls hit over 100 mph.

Voth heads overseas to pursue a more lucrative financial opportunity after let out of his minor league pact with the Rangers last week. The 34-year-old journeyman righty allowed 11 runs over 10 innings between the Blue Jays and Twins earlier this season. He’s made 210 appearances in the big leagues since 2018.

Paddack heads overseas to pursue a more lucrative opportunity after struggling to an inflated 6.79 ERA, 1.67 WHIP and 40/19 K/BB ratio over 57 innings between the Rangers, Reds and Marlins earlier this season. The 30-year-old’s days as a fantasy-relevant starter are over unless he manages to completely reinvent himself while pitching in Korea. It’s happened before, but we’re not banking on it with Paddack.

Davidson hit 46 homers for the Dinos in 2024 and 36 last year, but his .257/.358/.446 line this year was just about 60 points better than the league OPS in the KBO and that apparently was no longer good enough to keep him employed. At age 35, Davidson probably doesn’t have much of a future in MLB at this point, but perhaps some team hungry for power could take him on. He’s a lifetime .220/.290/.430 hitter with 54 homers in 1,112 major league plate appearances.

Encarnacion was DFA’ed off the Giants roster in May. The 28-year-old has hit .211/.237/.362 in 291 MLB plate appearances, but is a career .260/.359/.481 hitter with 54 homers in four seasons at the Triple-A level. He’ll look to re-establish his career overseas.

Bido was DFA’ed off the White Sox roster in May — it was his seventh organization in five months. He’ll try to re-establish himself in Japan.

The former big-leaguer was with the Blue Jays briefly last year after pitching to a 2.65 ERA in 2024 with the Phillies. Turnbull, still only 33, probably has a non-zero chance to make it back to the majors in some capacity if he pitches well and catches the right eyes.

thought he had given Nicaragua the lead earlier in the game, launching a towering drive to left that died just short of the wall. A couple innings later, he removed the ambiguity, crushing a 397-foot blast that left no doubt and put Nicaragua ahead. Unfortunately, the lead wouldn’t hold up as the Netherlands rallied for a walk-off victory. The 27-year-old former top prospect — one of the centerpiece returns in the Mookie Betts trade earlier this decade — hasn’t appeared in the majors since 2023, spending the last two seasons with the SoftBank Hawks in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. Careers rarely unfold in straight lines, and Downs’ path has bent more than most — but for one swing on Saturday, the narrative felt momentarily uncomplicated.

Cave spent the 2025 season with the Doosan Bears of the Korea Baseball Organization. The 33-year-old has 523 MLB games to his record with a career slash of .232/.292/.400.

He’ll be sentenced on May 22. The 35-year-old faces up to 15 years in federal prison, though it doesn’t sound like prosecutors will aim for that. Puig initially made a deal to plead guilty to charges back in 2022 and would have gotten probation and a fine, but he backed out of it, resulting in the greatly delayed trial. Puig lied during a Jan. 2022 interview he voluntarily participated in regarding his bookmaker, Wayne Nix. Nix later pleaded guilty of conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business.