Major League Baseball is about a week-and-a-half away from seeing camps open up across Florida and Arizona in preparation for the exhibition season. This interim period, then, is the perfect time for clubs to apply the finishing touches to their rosters. What will Monday bring? Below, CBS Sports has gathered all of the day’s most notable news, moves, and rumors in one spot for your reading convenience.
Tigers still in on Bregman
The Tigers made a splash on Sunday night, reuniting with right-handed starter Jack Flaherty on a two-year pact that contains an opt-out clause after the first season. Detroit may not be done with its late-winter shopping, either. According to ESPN’s Buster Olney, the Tigers remain interested in adding Alex Bregman to their roster.
Bregman entered the offseason ranked by CBS Sports as the No. 3 free agent in the land. Here’s what we wrote at the time:
Bregman has been one of the most productive third basemen in the sport for much of his career. He’s compiled the sixth-most WAR at the position since 2020, putting him ahead of Rafael Devers and behind only the who’s who of this era’s third basemen. He’s had a terrific career to date. Yet this exercise is, in part, about looking forward. The more we dug in on Bregman, the more we developed reservations about his bat. There’s no denying his feel for contact but we’re not as confident about the other elements. For instance, Statcast’s calculations suggest he would have at least 30 fewer career home runs had he hit the same array of batted balls in one of 17 other MLB fields. You can’t hold that against Bregman — you golf the course you’re on — but it does suggest his power might play down elsewhere. There’s also the matter of his walk rate, which cratered to a career-low 6.9% last season as he grew more aggressive. Bregman’s bat-to-ball and defensive skills remain good enough for him to provide value; there’s just a little more reason to say