The MLB Trade Rumors Free Agent Prediction Contest is now open! 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 player will be excluded from the contest.
- 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.
- The winners of this contest will be declared on Opening Day 2025, and any unsigned players will be excluded from the competition.
- 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 Juan Soto (#1 ranking) and Clay Holmes (#21 ranking) for a total of 22 points. Steve gets Max Fried (#6) and Tanner Scott (#14) for a total of 20 points. Steve’s total is lower and he’s ahead of Tim for tiebreaker purposes.
If you have any further questions, ask us in the comment section of this post! Otherwise, make your picks now!
500 bucks shoot i gotta try this. I win you don’t have to pay me just let me write an article about the Cardinals for you. Free membership don’t sound bad either yeah gotta give it a shot.
Wait a minute, I’m not sure if I want an article about my Cardinals written by a miscreant such as yourself.
/s
You will read it. And you will like it.
At least one of those things is true.
annual membership is less than $30, if you’re too cheap to spend money, don’t be asking for something free Blackpink
One question?!
Regarding: “ We’re going to use entrants’ full names on it.”
Mlbtr full names, I presume, rather than our names in real life?
Thanks.
I think I answered that question for myself by clicking on the Click here link. Got it.
This is not going to go well. I have way less of a handle on this market than years past. I think there are going to be several quality players without contracts when the music stops. The TV uncertainty is going to keep 10 or so clubs out of the market entirely.
Yeah should be interesting. You got a few teams ready to spend but not as many as years past. Bregman is a guy i just can’t peg where he signs. Toronto makes sense I guess. Doubt the Cardinals are involved in any big names. I don’t think they sell off much at all but also don’t think they sign many guys either. Right handed hitting centerfielder is a need we have talked about that.
Aren’t we gonna wait 3 more years for VSII to mature. Siani could break out in a couple of years and Nootbar can cover CF for the weeks he is available. As
I think either Siani or Scott needs to be dealt. 2 lefty hitting centerifelders who can’t hit isn’t a good fit on the roster.
I want Luis Robert but I don’t think the team is looking to trade the young talent it would require to get him let alone pay him.
Siani has a lot less upside. VSII was screwed by FO early promotion so he could recover.
But man can Siani play defense! Still he has to go.
Agree with your points but I really dont know who has to go.
Kim is #26 and 43?
2 different Kim’s with very similar names. One is coming over from Asia. The other is already over.
I was wondering the same thing. I put both of them on the Brewers. Thought it was the same guys. I don’t think Milwaukee re-signs Willy Adames. Si they’ll need a ss.
Ugh, I’m gonna win again…. This is so easy.
You won before?
I wish that everyone’s contest ranking would be displayed to the right of their user handle (and follow them if they change their user handle).
Fine I’ll do it this year. Let’s see how this goes.
My picks are in boys. And if past performance tells us who we are then no one has to worry about me standing in their way of a victory.
It seems we just did this. Last year I got three, I think. That’s a record high for me.
Will I get more than 5?
Article says deadline is TONIGHT at 11 pm.
Bottom of picks says Monday the 13th – which isn’t a thing.
My picks are in but just curious, which is it?
Writers, could we have the 2024-2025 FA list and FA predictions placed in TOOLS, please. Update needed considering 2023-2024 FA lists are still there. Thanks
Wish this wasn’t closed
Oh man, i missed the deadline!
Reopen it
Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers aaaand Dodgers.
“If a player signs between now and the close of the contest, that player will be excluded from the contest.”
I’m assuming that meant until the close of the selection period of the contest?
I made my picks when they announced the contest – hopefully I get at least 5 correct =/
Woooo Hooooo, I am 1-1 with Nick Martinez returning to the Reds.
Is there somewhere to check and see how badly I’m doing, as well comparing the murkiness of my crystal ball against others?
They post a leaderboard each year where you can do just that. You can compare yourself to others and also with the writers whose selections are also posted. I haven’t seen this years put up yet so it’s probably coming soon.
Thanks. Was making sure I hadn’t missed the leaderboard post. Want to make sure I don’t break my streak of sub 15% correct.
Where’s the link to OA standings on the FA signing contest??