Pitcher List’s 2026-27 MLB Free Agent Tracker follows every signing of the offseason, with our Top 100 free agent rankings, contract details and what each move means for fantasy baseball. We update it as deals happen, so check back throughout the winter.
Updated: November 12, 2026
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Evan Phillips signs with the Atlanta Braves for 3 years, $35 million
Phillips is the second notable free agent signing, and the second major bullpen piece to switch teams after Emilio Pagán’s move to the Tigers. Phillips joins the Braves’ bullpen after their incumbent closer, Raisel Iglesias, entered free agency this offseason. Phillips has been excellent since joining the Dodgers in 2021, posting a 3.23 xFIP and a 22.5% K-BB rate (including three innings with Tampa Bay). He’s joining an excellent bullpen with fellow late-inning option Robert Suarez as the main internal competition for saves. Dylan Lee has also been tremendous for the Braves, but the team did not use the lefty in save situations at all last season. Suarez and Phillips both have health questions, throwing 34 and 26 innings, respectively, in 2026. Both came to the Braves as free agents on three-year deals for fairly significant reliever money. Both rank well by stuff metrics and throw hard, although both PLV and Stuff+ both slightly prefer Phillips. With Phillips departing an even-more-crowded Dodgers’ bullpen, this is a positive for his fantasy value, and a negative for Suarez. I wouldn’t change my evaluations of anyone in the Dodgers’ pen; despite Phillips being a consistently excellent reliever, he was pretty far down the saves pecking order in LA. – Ben Solow
Emilio Pagán signs with the Detroit Tigers for 1 year, $11 million
Pagán is the first major bullpen domino to fall, replacing Kenley Jansen on the Tigers. He comes in on exactly the same contract Jansen had last year, so nothing changes here in terms of where the Tigers have allocated their resources. He’s an obvious fit for a team that needs help in the back end of their bullpen. While the Tigers ranked in the middle third of the league by both results (bullpen ERA) and underlying performance (SIERA, xFIP), they lacked someone who could be relied upon to shut down opposing offenses in close games consistently. Pagán’s 28.1% career strikeout rate will be particularly welcome in a bullpen where the top four relievers remaining under contract struck out just 152 batters in 193 innings. For Pagán himself, this is a mostly lateral move. Great American Ballpark and Comerica Park have similar overall park factors, but Comerica is significantly less homer-friendly in particular. That’s important for Pagán, who has a career 1.5 HR/9. The defense behind him will be worse, though, and the role remains the same. He leaves behind a bullpen with a gaping hole at the end of games; Tejay Antone and Graham Ashcraft are probably the best internal options at this point. – Ben Solow
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