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After their center fielders finished 26th in WAR in 2015, per FanGraphs, the Seattle Mariners decided to upgrade their available options.

Baseball Hall of Famers Yogi Berra and Willie Mays will receive Presidential Medals of Freedom from President Barack Obama on Nov. 24.

Craig Calcaterra of NBC Sports' Hardball Talk reported the White House's announcement Monday.

Add Cincinnati Reds third baseman Todd Frazier to the ever-growing list of All-Stars reportedly available on this winter's trade market.

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Frazier Available for 'Big Return'

Monday, Nov. 16

ESPN's Jayson Stark spoke with an executive from another team who said Frazier is "legitimately out there" for a trade.

A stock-piled offseason of free agents is about to get into full swing in Major League Baseball with some of the game's top pitchers and position players ready to narrow down their suitors and sign offers for their futures.

Baseball is a fickle sport. 

Year in and year out, players scratch their heads as their performances fluctuate from exhilarating highs to frustrating lows. Over the next few slides, we'll take a look at some players in the current offseason market who are poised to bounce back in 2016. 

By digging deep into the numbers, there are trends that bode well for future production. ERA and batting average tell part of the story, but there are more telling numbers when looking at a player's stat sheet. 

The Atlanta Braves started the process a year ago.

The plan, wisely implemented and shrewdly executed by a new front-office regime led by president of baseball operations John Hart and general manager John Coppolella, was to build the franchise into a youthful contender by the time it opened its new suburban stadium in 2017. That meant trading away much of the club’s core and stockpiling young pitching.

It's not even officially winter yet and the MLB hot stove is already up and cooking, with a couple of big trades going down in mid-November.

The Rookie of the Year is about performance, not potential.

Just when Kris Bryant of the Chicago Cubs commanded everyone's attention this summer, Houston's Carlos Correa made our heads swivel. And then Cleveland's Francisco Lindor threatened to chase him down for the American League Rookie of the Year award.

Minnesota's Miguel Sano showed some sick sock, but then tick tock, here came the Cubs' Kyle Schwarber. And Addison Russell.

Randal Grichuk in St. Louis? Whoa. Jung Ho Kang in Pittsburgh? Wow. Matt Duffy in San Francisco? Whoa-wow.

After spending the last week or so going position by position, the B/R MLB Offseason 100 now arrives at its final destination. It6s time to rank the top 100 players available this offseason.

In case you're just now joining us, the idea of the B/R MLB Offseason 100 is to pluck players from the free agent and trade markets and rank them according to a scoring system that weighed their talent, durability and value outlooks. If you missed any of the individual positional rankings, here they are: