MLB Free Agents Who Could Become Superstars on New Teams in 2025

Age: 31

2024 Stats: 130 G, 488 PA, 20 HR, 0 SB, .237 AVG, .309 OBP, .450 SLG

The Current State of His Career

Michael Conforto was consistently one of the top hitters in baseball between 2017 and 2020, ultimately racking up an .864 OPS and 97 home runs.

Then came a down year in 2021, followed by an unfulfilled free-agent saga and shoulder surgery that cost him the entire 2022 season. And since then, two inoffensive yet also unspectacular seasons with the Giants.

Conforto has posted a .740 OPS with only 35 home runs in 225 games. Numbers like those don’t leap off the page for anyone, but they especially don’t look good when attached to a bat-only player like this one.

How Changing Scenery Could Help

Remember in the intro how we talked about Teoscar Hernández’s home/road splits sending a clear message about how he fit in Seattle?

We can do the same thing with Conforto’s numbers as a Giant:

• Home: .661 OPS, 9 HR
• Away: .803 OPS, 26 HR

Not exactly a shocker, right? Even with its new dimensions, Oracle Park is still the most power-suppressing stadium in MLB. And it’s even tougher on left-handed hitters like Conforto.

Otherwise, Conforto’s exit velocity and hard-hit rate for 2024 were the best they had been since the mid-2010s. Like Clint Eastwood when he escaped Alcatraz, he just plain needs to get out of San Francisco.