Top 5 Remaining MLB Free Agents This Spring

All the heavy lifting has been done on this year's free agents, the big boys all have new homes. But for teams still on the hunt to plug a lineup hole here and there, they do have a handful of decent major league veterans to choose from, from starters, to a reliever, to a couple of bats.

Let's have a look at the Top 5 remaining free agents this spring.

David Robertson, RP

To say that relief veteran David Robertson is still going strong is actually an understatement. Sure, he'll be 40 this season, but last year, in a set-up role with the Texas Rangers, all he did was toss a career-high 72 innings, holding opposing batters to a stingy .202 average and a .571 OPS, while posting a 3.00 ERA, and a 1.11 WHIP. Oh, and he also struck out a whopping 12.4 batters per nine innings.

Forty, shmorty. This guy has a career ERA of 2.91 and 11.8 K/9, and would be a boon to any team's bullpen.

Why the hell hasn’t an MLB team signed David Robertson? He’s about to turn 40, but he’s been consistently good-to-great pretty much every single season of his career, including last year. He was just as unhittable as ever
— Anthony Joseph (AJ) Gullotta II 🇮🇹 (@AJGullotta) February 20, 2025

Jose Quintana, SP

With an ERA in the mid-3.00s in each of the last two seasons with the New York Mets, Quintana can still twirl, despite going into his age-36 season. Yes, he had a rough stretch for a few years, from 2019 through 2021. But he has been a solid mid-rotation starter for the past three years, and with injuries bound to happen to pitchers during spring training (Hello? Mets? Frankie Montas just went down for the first six weeks of the season), and Quintana is bound to find a job somewhere.

JD Martinez, DH

The 37-year-old brings a skill that's lacking in the remaining free agent pool: Power. Well, sometimes. In his past four seasons, he's alternated between very strong offensive years, and mediocre ones. Last season with the NY Mets, it was the latter, with just 16 dingers and a .725 OPS. But the year before with the LA Dodgers, Martinez blasted 33 longballs, with 103 RBIs in just 113 games, with an .893 OPS.

Alex Verdugo, OF

Yes, he was a big disappointment for the NY Yankees last season, posting a .647 OPS with an OPS+ of 83. But that was his first season as a below-average hitter in six major league seasons. In his previous four years with the Boston Red Sox, he hit .281 with an OPS of .761 (OPS+ of 105). And he can still play D in the outfield.

Andrew Heaney, SP

Teams looking for a left-handed innings-eater in their rotation, who won't do too much damage, could do a lot worse than Heaney. Over the past three seasons, he's posted an ERA not much over 4.00, and an ERA+ of just better than average, while striking out more than a batter per inning. He can hold down a 4th (or most certainly, a 5th) starter's spot for a team in need.