Contract Crowdsourcing 2023-24: Ballot 8 of 11
Free agency begins five days after the end of the World Series. As in other recent seasons, FanGraphs is once again facilitating a contract crowdsourcing project, with the idea being to harness the wisdom of the crowd to better understand and project the 2023-24 free agent market.
In recent years, we’ve added a few features to these ballots based on reader feedback. You now have the option to indicate that a player will only receive a minor-league contract, or won’t receive one at all. If there is a player option, team option, or opt out in a player’s contract, you’ll be able to indicate whether you think he will remain with his current team or become a free agent. Numbers are prorated to full season where noted. The projected WAR figures are from the first cut of the 2024 Steamer600 projections.
Below are ballots for nine of this year’s free agents — in this case, another group of starting pitchers.
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Odirizzi is the only one of these pitchers I see getting a multi-year deal.
Agreed. I’m not sure I’d give Montas more than a MiLB deal, but someone probably will.
Why not? It’s just a one year deal. If he’s not healthy you can just cut him. And if he is, he was a very good pitcher before that.
I think Odorizzi is coming off a pretty serious injury, right? I don’t think he’s getting a multi year deal.
I had Ryu getting a 2 year deal. Recovered from TJ, so maybe some team thinks they can get him in good health. Been good when he’s pitched.
Like 2 year, $10-12M per year or something.
He and Maeda are kind of in the same boat. Probably getting one year deals but because they have pitched well, you can see a team adding a second year to ensure they get him.