Hot stove league: Free agent pitchers. 13 comments


So far the Rangers have made the biggest free agent signing of the off-season in inking catcher Jeff Mathis to a two-year deal.

That is how uneventful the free agent market has been thus far.

Eventually teams and players are going to come to agreements. So, to get the hot stove league started, below is the list of available free agent pitchers, ranked by last year’s salary from spotrac. Many are former Rangers.

How many will be future Rangers? Hint: Look for cheap recently injured cheap reclamation projects cheap past their prime cheap innings eaters who will work cheap.

James Shields, age 37, $21 million
Ervin Santana, 36, $13.5 million
Dallas Keuchel, 31, $13.2 million
Marco Estrada, 35, $13 million
J.A. Happ, 36, $13 million

Lance Lynn, 32, $12 million
Gio Gonzalez, 33, $12 million
Brandon McCarthy, 35, $11.5 million
Charlie Morton, 35, $8.875 million
Drew Pomeranz, 30, $8.5 million*

Patrick Corbin, 30, $7.5 million
Garrett Richards, 31, $7.3 million
Martin Perez, 28, $6 million
Matt Harvey, 30, $5.625 million
Miguel Gonzalez, 35, $4.75 million

Brett Anderson, 31, $4 million
Francisco Liriano, 35, $4 million
Doug Fister, 35, $3.5 million
Tyson Ross, 32, $2.7 million
Hisashi Iwakuma, 38, $2.5 million

Wade Miley, 32, $2.5 million
Bartolo Colon, 46, $2.45 million
Kyle Lohse, 40, $2.33 million
Yovani Gallardo, 33, $2.3 million
Nathan Eovaldi, 29, $2 million

Jeremy Hellickson, 32, $2 million
Trevor Cahill, 31, $1.5 million
Clay Buchholz, 34, $1.5 million
Edwin Jackson, 35, $1.5 million
Nate Karns, 31, $1.375 million

Anibal Sanchez, 36, $1 million
Jordan Lyles, 28, $750,000
Nick Tepesch, 30, $572,300
Casey Kelly, 29, $572,300
Taylor Guerrieri, 27, $545,000

Chris Tillman, 31, $545,000
Ross Detwiler, 33, $545,000
Jo-Jo Reyes, 34, $545,000

(players in boldface are former Rangers, asterisk means drafted by Rangers)