Lots more to say about the Padres re-signing Michael King and the Cubs signing Tyler Austin. I started to do each in these Bullets, and then they got to like five very long Bullets apiece and I realized I still wasn’t done talking about either. That’s when you know they are posts. So that’s later.
A flurry of movement this week, eh? Christmas is coming next week, and I bet we continue to see signings drop up through next Tuesday or so.
?BREAKING: Sung-Mun Song (송성문), the star 3B from the KBO’s Kiwoom Heroes, will sign with the San Diego Padres for upwards of $15 million / 3 years, per Korean outlet YTN.I haven’t seen any English outlets report this yet, but Korean news outlets are on it! ? pic.twitter.com/SrGgOlzjif
— Hyeseong Kim Muse 김혜성 (@HyeseongKimMuse) December 19, 2025 It’s not clear what kind of impact Sung-Mun Song will have in MLB, but given their budgetary constraints and the fact that they still somehow found the cash for King, I have to believe the Padres needed to try for an inexpensive “win” like Song. That said, he’s a theoretical third base/second base option that comes off the market, so you never know what impact that’ll have on spurring anything else along. At this point, though, it seems like everyone is waiting on the Alex Bregman/Ketel Marte dance to shake out, combined with Munetaka Murakami’s posting ending on Monday. Side note: this is the second time in recent years the Padres have signed a star infielder from the Kiwoom Heroes. That’s where Ha-Seong Kim played before he signed with the Padres. Crazy story in the International Free Agency world, as one of the top prospects in the upcoming class, Dominican Wandy Asigen, who was set to get a $4.3 million bonus from the Yankees at the next period open (January 15), has flipped his agreement to the Mets at $3.8 million. That is per a boatload of reports, and is apparently due to the Yankees parting ways with their international scouting director (which basically opens back up any verbal “agreements”). I don’t know that his bonus going down is a product of him being less well-regarded in the year(s) that followed the original commitment, by the way; it’s pretty hard for teams to have available, or open up, that much cash this close to a period opening. It’s almost unheard of for a prospect of this caliber to flip teams just a few weeks before signing.Wild news out of the international scene.Just a few weeks before the international signing day, the New York Mets have flipped the commitment of Dominican shortstop Wandy Asigen — widely regarded as Top 3 prospect in the class. Deal is purportedly near $4 million.The New… t.co/YGikWlTdGO
— Joe Doyle (@JoeDoyleMiLB) December 19, 2025 Taking less money, too. That’s an extremely wild part, and suggests either some shenanigans with future payments to other players (not unheard of in the IFA world, where the “rules” are already so loose), or suggests he and his family/trainers felt he would develop much, much better in the Mets organization (and thus make more than that $500,000 back down the road), or suggests the Yankees actually pulled their offer. I wonder if this is how the Cubs got Bryant Ciriaco, by the way. You may remember, he was the seemingly-quite-good prospect the Cubs basically traded Nico Zeglin to sign (they got IFA pool space from the Astros). Ciriaco was reportedly set to sign with the Yankees, and then got more money to sign with the Cubs. Any chance it was actually that the Yankees let their international scouting director go, that opened up a bunch of guys, and the Cubs pounced on what they could put together the pool space for? (This all actually happened last year for the Cubs when they poached a would’ve-been Marlins prospect, Juan Thomas, under similar circumstances at a similar time on the calendar.) Lol, this cannot be real:Bellinger is looking for an eight-year deal worth $400m, @Boomskie has learned. Tucker in the same neighborhood. It's going to be a long offseason. @Grampskie t.co/55zORlv03k
— Barry M. Bloom (@Boomskie) December 18, 2025 It’s cut off on the embed, but Kyle Schwarber tops the upper list (by a mile), and most of the big names are juuuust barely cut off the bottom of the lower list:Here’s the same leaderboard on a per swing basis pic.twitter.com/U6h7bgwyXU
— . (@HalToHell) December 18, 2025 Looking at the list, and it’s like, yup: swinging really hard at a perfect angle is probably going to generate a whole lot of power production when you make contact. That approach won’t work for everyone (physically or otherwise), but there’s a reason most of the best sluggers are there. The biggest question for that group is simply how often you can make contact on those swings, and whether your ability to discern and select attackable pitches is strong. The swing, itself, is just one part of the equation … but it’s a very important one! Believe it or not, the Cub who was most often swinging at the ideal bat path angle was Matt Shaw. The problem is that his swing speed averages below 70 mph, which is quite low (and is what you often see for guys trading power for contact). Seiya Suzuki and Pete Crow-Armstrong had the best combination of a high-ish rate of ideal bat path, and high-ish swing speed. Curious how much the Cubs’ pool was, and who got shares:The Blue Jays received 24% of the $128.2m players' pool for post-season revenues (the Dodgers received 36%).They gave out 70 full shares, each worth $354,118 (the Dodgers handed out 82 full shares at $484,747).The players pool total just shy of last year's record $129m.
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