The 2025-26 Main League Baseball offseason is ongoing, and with the Winter Conferences drifting farther behind us we’re working our manner deeper into the game’s offseason calendar. Amongst different issues, the winter in baseball means a gentle provide of rumors concerning free agent signings, trades, and the like. Talking of which, you will discover Wednesday’s Christmas Eve roundup slightly below. 

Yankees amongst groups inquisitive about Hays

Veteran outfielder Austin Hays is seeing his free agent market choose up. 

The Yankees are among the many groups with some stage of curiosity in Hays, the New York Submit stories. Nonetheless, the Yankees would possible pursue Hays provided that fellow outfielder Cody Bellinger, a core member of the Yankees final season and one in every of their high offseason targets, indicators elsewhere. 

Hays has beforehand been reported to be of curiosity to the Mets and Royals. 

Hays, 30, has a profession OPS+ of 106 throughout elements of eight MLB seasons. Final season, he had an OPS+ of 105 for the Reds. He has a profession WAR of 10.8, and in 2023 he earned his first and thus far solely All-Star choice as a member of the Orioles. For his profession, Hays boasts an OPS of .819 towards left-handed pitching. 

Marlins signal Fairbanks

The Marlins have agreed to phrases on a one-year, $13 million free agent contract with veteran reliever Pete Fairbanks, the Athletic stories. 

The 32-year-old Fairbanks has served because the Rays’ nearer for the final three seasons, and earlier within the offseason CBS Sports activities ranked him because the No. 40 free agent within the 2025-26 class. Here is a part of RJ Anderson’s write-up: 

“Fairbanks was a late addition to the free-agent class when the Rays surprisingly declined his membership choice. He is all the time struggled with sturdiness (this previous season marked his first time clearing 50 innings in a yr) and his strikeout charge is a shadow of its outdated self. That stated, Fairbanks continues to own a nasty slider and he ought to slot right into a high-leverage position for somebody.”

The Marlins had been in want of high-leverage reduction assist, particularly after Ronny Henriquez was misplaced to Tommy John surgical procedure.