UPDATE: The contest is now closed. More than 6,200 people entered! The leaderboard will be available soon.
It’s time for the MLB Trade Rumors Free Agent Prediction Contest! Click here to enter your picks for the destinations for our top 50 free agents. The deadline for entry is TONIGHT at 11pm central time! You can edit your picks until then. Further contest info:
- After the window to make picks has closed, we’ll post a public leaderboard page so you can see who’s winning the contest as players sign with teams. We’re going to use entrants’ full names on it. So, if that concerns you, please do not enter the contest. Entries with inappropriate names will be deleted.
- We are also collecting email addresses, which I will use to notify winners.
- If a player signs between now and the close of the contest, that’s a freebie, but you still need to go in and make the correct pick.
- After you submit your picks, you’ll receive an email from Google Forms. In that email, you’ll see a button that allows you to edit your picks.
- We will announce the winners on MLBTR once all 50 free agents have signed. We will award $500 to first place, $300 to second place, and $100 to third place. We will also be giving one-year memberships to Trade Rumors Front Office for everyone who finishes in the top 15. Winners must respond to an email within one week.
- MLB owners are expected to lock out the players this winter, putting a freeze on transactions. The winners of this contest will be declared on May 1st, 2022, and any unsigned players will be excluded from the competition. If fewer than 30 players are signed at that point, the contest will be canceled.
- Ties in the correct number of picks will be broken by summing up the rankings of the free agents of the correct picks and taking the lower total. For example: Tim and Steve each get two picks correct. Tim gets Carlos Correa (#1 ranking) and Anthony Rizzo (#21 ranking) for a total of 22 points. Steve gets Marcus Semien (#6) and Eduardo Rodriguez (#14) for a total of 20 points. Steve’s total is lower and he’s ahead of Tim for tiebreaker purposes.
- I mistakenly forgot to change the Indians to the Guardians in the contest form. I’m going to leave that mistake to make sure I don’t break anything by trying to change it. Sorry about that.
If you have any further questions, ask us in the comment section of this post! Otherwise, make your picks now!
Is this only for people over 18? I just seen you had cash prizes and that’s why I was curious
Jerry Dipoto – The Athletic
“The one thing the Mariners won’t do this week or the rest of the offseason, according to Dipoto, is break up their core of top prospects for trade bait — no matter how tempting it may be.
That means guys like Rodriguez, Brash, Kirby and shortstop Noelvi Marte are likely off-limits, though other players could get some hits — like pitchers Levi Stoudt and Williamson, for example.
“I would say it goes further than (the top) 10,” Dipoto said. “We’ll get hits on the guys at the top of the system, but will also get hits on guys in the 15 to 25 range.”
“There’s no scenario where we will move the top prospects in our system, the guys who are prominent in our system. (But) if there is an opportunity to add a player to be with the Mariners for more than a year, it will create a conversation for us in (Carlsbad) and as the offseason progresses.”
So much for all of the JRam and B. Reynolds trade ideas. I love this!! It sounds like Seattle will do most of the heavy lifting in free agency. So excited to bring in a new group of guys while keeping our younger guys in the organization.
theathletic.com/2938454/2021/11/08/most-critical-o…
Why is this posted here?
I agree. I sometimes post responses that don’t have to do with the comment before them but they at least have to do with the article. I would’ve posted this response under a Mariners article. That way it’s more likely Mariners fans will read it.
You think Seattle will do the heavy lifting? How about the Giants? They have 1 SP and have plenty of money to spend. Zaidi even said they will be big players in the FA market
Just gave me a couple of ideas…if I put Mariners I might do pretty well because they will swing and miss signing the big names and panic and overpay for the lesser free agents and two….it’s time to fire up that Mariner-excuses-why-we-fell-short-again-at-signing-big-free-agents wheel!!!
Jerry is on the right track! The farm was looking pretty sad when he took over and are now #2! Buy ‘em in free agency but don’t spend it all this year, we need some $ for next year
“I just seen” – why do so many people fail basic grammar? The past tense of see is the word saw. I saw, you saw, he saw, we saw, they saw. You get it now?
Don’t be a grammar teacher people make mistakes. Have you noticed the N is near the space bar??
I saw that you saw a lot of MLB rumours that have been seen !!!!
Not all the time my man!. It all depends!
I’m also a English As A Second Lenguaje guy too !
Thanks!
Correra Ik you want to be a Mets but sadly we got two AAA studs who will probably have similar production to you. But you are an amazing player.
Who is Correra? If you mean Carlos Correa, where would Lindor play?
Correa would play 3B
How do you know Correa wants “to be a Mets?”
Maybe instead of 3B, he could take the PoBO role no one else seems to want.
Correa does not want to be a Met. He wants to be somewhere that he can win
I got at least one right with Andrew Heaney right
yeah….so if you’re paying attention that’s an easy 50 points, right?
I am filing a complaint that Albert Pujols was not on the top 50 list.
Looking to break my single-season record of 7.
It won’t let me open. Says a error
Same here… I am trying on my cell phone though so maybe it only works on a computer?
That’s cuz Braves fans aren’t allowed to play!
This is it, fellas… This is the year I get more than four right.
Amen. Correa will be a Yankee, dammit!
I’d prefer Seager personally. But I’d not complain about Correa
I alternately selected Orioles and Pirates for every FA. I wonder what my score will be.
Zero
Imagine the Pirates stop being cheap and become good again like 2015. They fell harder than Nate Robinson vs Jake Paul as far as playoff contenders go. From 98 wins in 2015 to bottom feeders more or less the next 5 years.
They did the bare minimum going into 2016 after winning 98 games the year before. John Jaso was the “big ticket” offensive addition and he was… fine, I guess, but provided no pop to a lineup that missed Pedro’s bat (but not his glove) more than anyone wanted to admit.
Marte and Cutch had down years. Harrison really fell off that season. And they slapped their fans by trying to convince us Ryan Vogelsong and Jon Niese were the answers to round out the pitching staff.
They had a perfect chance to spend a little and beef up that team and they went dumpster diving, as is Nutting’s MO.
Oh and Liriano also fell off a cliff that year too. Which didn’t help either. Almost forgot about that.
Your score will be terrible, but expect a torrent of “Thanks for being a fan” emails from the Orioles and Pirates.
Were the winners from last year every announced?
I did pretty well not top 10 but top 50 or something I think and I just wanted to double check and I can’t seem to find the leaderboard from last year. Gonna screen shot it and see if I can do better this year.
Here’s 19-20: mlbtraderumors.com/mlb-free-agent-prediction-conte…
20-21: mlbtraderumors.com/mlb-free-agent-prediction-conte…
Note that 20-21 is back at 0 of 50 signed. They must be reusing this leaderboard for this year’s.
Here’s last year’s leaderboard:
mlbtraderumors.com/mlb-free-agent-prediction-conte…
The top 15 have been notified. I should note that Cole Hamels was excluded, having signed in August.
Is It possible to have my picks sent to my email address? Cannot find the previous one after my final edit.. Thanks in advance.
I’m getting an error message on my Android phone
Already replied same to above comment… but in case it is an error and not just that you have to use a computer… I am having the same problem also on an android.
looks like you can’t open it from the App… but if you go into your phones browser and go to the actual website… that should work. It worked for me anyway.
thanks!
I got 8 two years in a row. Will I get 8 again? The suspense is killing no one but me.
That’s pretty good VPH
I think my record is 4
Time to update the name of that team in Cleveland.
They addressed that in the original post. It was an oversight and they don’t want to mess with the system now that a contest is already running.
Besides, If anything, this site has been TOO on top of using Guardians. I personally don’t think the articles should say Guardians until the team themselves officially starts using it.
How about The Cleveland “Mistakes by the Lake?”
and it is offensive to the Irish to call the team Yankees.
Braves-native americans chop chop
red sox poor bostoners
white sox porr chicagoans
angels the choirs of heaven
padres priests
twins split zygotes
You tried and failed miserably
Why does low number win for a tiebreaker? It’s more impressive if you can pick where the guys in the 40s are going to land because every team can afford a utility type / mid paid reliever. There’s only a few teams that can afford the high dollar contracts thus making them easier to predict.
My guess is that there’s more value in getting right the guy who adds 6 WAR to his signing team than getting right the guy who adds 0.3 WAR.
I definitely see where you’re coming from, though.
Yanks have some heavy lifting this off season:
1- sign Chris Taylor for CF and SS
2- sign one of Verlander or Ray
3- trade Gleyber Torres, Voit, and Gallo plus a pitching prospect like a Deivi Garcia for Matt Olsen.
4- trade for a defense minded catcher who can start and push Sanchez to a back up role where he can also DH
5- sign Corey Seager to play ss this year with an eventual move to third when Volpe is ready
6- still need another left handed bat????? Maybe a left handed batting catcher who can play high end defense if they currently exist?
Lol that would put their payroll over 300 million, get real
They said they’d be around 290 this year who knows lol
Conforto?
3 – Why do Yankees fans continue to think other teams would want players the Yankees don’t? And in this specific case, Oakland would never take on all those salaries.
That’s facts. Package would have to be more like
GIL
PERAZA/gleyber
Wells
Bryant Mets
Martre [Starling] Mets
Verlander Mets
You’re dreaming
LOL No freaking way Verlander signs with the Mets, he actually wants to win another World Series. And it sure isn’t happening with the New York Mets.
Made my picks. Expect to edit them, but surprised myself by not going outside the box too much.
So I just filled out my picks, and I noticed a discrepancy. This article states “The deadline for entry Monday, November 15th at 11pm central time. You can edit your picks until then.”
After filling out the form, the next pages says “You can make edits until Friday, November 20th at 11pm central time.”
After checking, there is no Friday the 20th of November this year, I’m assuming this is a message from a previous year?
Thanks, I fixed the message. The contest does close tonight at 11pm central.
Is it bad I have three of the top 50 retiring?
Although I don’t think all three of them will hang up the cleats.
Yes, three is ambitious, although I have two. Shades of “The Great Resignation.”
Tim, Google Forms indicates that the contest is open thru November 20.
Honestly I don’t know how to automatically have the form close at a certain time, but I do plan to go in there at 11pm central tonight and stop accepting responses. Thanks for the heads up on that though.
Actually, I figured out the erroneous message, and fixed it.
I am not sure if anyone is experiencing this, but I cannot open the choices for Stroman and Schwarber. I cannot save my selections because I did not enter a selection for those two.
This is what the Yankees need:
1) bring Reynolds and Stallings from Pirates
2) bring Olson from the A’s
3) sign Seager and Verlander
Use the following players as trade bait for the trades above : Sanchez, Torres, Andujar, Frazier, Voit, Hicks, German, Montgomery, Gil, Wells, Peraza, Garcia and Durham.
Yankees trash doesn’t equal other teams good players
As you might imagine, the players the Yankees are offering (cumulatively) in your scenario do not equal the return.
I found the contest difficult ( especially the less known players). Highlights: I picked Correa and Rizzo for the Yankees, Seager, Scherzer and Kershaw going back to the Dodgers, Bryant to the Mets, Ray back to the Jays snd Báez to the Cubs
Wouldn’t Corey and Kyle Seager on the Tigers be so great?
Thank you for doing this Tim. I was able to close out and then get back on. Then I was able to enter my selzction for Stroman and Schwarber. then I closed out and later came back to go back in to chenge one of my selections. How do we edit our selections. I enterew my email and name and then there was none of my selections. Thank you
I’ve gotten 10 and 11 the past two years I’ve done this. Time for 12.
If that remark from Marsh is directed to my post I guess he knows nothing about Yankees prospects and some of their position players that still have control has value !!!!
That’s ok. They’ll always be the Indians to me.
Enjoy going down with the sinking ship.
I don’t care who goes where as long as Seattle signs Suzuki and Brayant I’m a happy cMperino
Anyone else’s picks not saving in the cloud?
For the free agent contest, how do you go and edit your predictions? Ive already submitted mine so there might not be a way.
You should receive an email from Google Forms that contains a link to edit.
Ok got it. Thanks!
Justin Verlander won’t let me pick who he will go to.
He’s coming back home to Detroit on a 3/60 deal.
After getting 15 last year maybe finally spending time looking at all the salaries and depth chart will place me in the top 10. This is one of my favorite contests that I enter, the combination of knowledge and luck makes it a good mix and this fun makes it more exciting to follow the offseason. I get a lot of guys right by simply picking them to re-sign with their old team, that’s probably the easiest and best thing to do with those relievers, that can go almost everywhere.
Got an email response from Google Forms, but there’s no way to link to an edit in it. How do I edit my choices?
The article states that there will be a “button” to click on to edit picks in the Google Form sent to emails. Nope. Nothing to click on.
I received an email from forms-receipts-noreply@google.com that has a big red “Edit response” button at the top. If you’re not seeing this, contact us through our contact form so you can send over a screen shot and I’ll try to help.
mlbtraderumors.com/contact
“MLBTR 2021-22 Free Agent Prediction Contest
The form MLBTR 2021-22 Free Agent Prediction Contest is no longer accepting responses.
Try contacting the owner of the form if you think this is a mistake.”
Is the message Im getting when I try to login to change Thor to Angels. There are no other options to do anything.
Yep, this is the same thing I’m getting when I hit the “edit response” link in the email. And as others have said, I was under the assumption that Friday was the deadline to update picks as well, based on a previous MLBTR post.
link not working
Baseball is the hardest to predict where free agents will go.
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No idea on most but went with their current team when had 0 idea – bad strategy to win but good strategy maybe to avoid last. Plus, I got 2 right already!
I’d be curious what % of people picked the O’s, Pirates, A’s, marlins, Rays, etc. to sign 1 of these guys. Be fun to see the breakdown by team.
How do we get a link to make our picks? Is it locked out already? Thanks!
I thought you were making entries available to edit by Nov 20? Locked out now.
I signed up before the deadline but never received my email. What should I do?
I’m excited to see that leader board!
Me too. Pretty sure I’m perfect so far.
I only got one prediction so far.