MLB: Top Free Agent Signings That Don’t Fit With Their New Teams

Honorable Mentions

This is the kind of list you don’t exactly want to be on. So in this case, the honorable mentions are really the winners of this ranking system. The players on this slide aren’t necessarily good fits on the team they signed with, but their signings weren’t impactful enough to be considered a distinctly bad fit.

The first player that came to mind when compiling this list is Chase Utley. Now as a Phillies fan, I love Chase Utley, and I think he can be a valuable contributor to any and every team. The Dodgers re-signed Utley for one year, $2M in February, which seems like a very good price for a 2+ win player. What gets me about this signing is that the Dodgers had already acquired an everyday second baseman in Logan Forsythe a month prior. Utley seems content to be a bench player at this point, and the Dodgers have made it clear that money is no object to them. For these reasons, I omitted Chase Utley from this list.

Kendrys Morales is another name I considered, but I soon realized he’s not a poor fit with the Blue Jays. What I was more hung up on was the fact that they had signed Morales sooner than needed, and could have possibly retained Edwin Encarnacion had they held off for awhile. The Blue Jays should do very well with Morales, though. He’s a switch hitter and could very possibly hit more than 30 homers next season.