There is an argument to be made that the past three offseasons have seen the three best hitters in baseball reach free agency: Aaron Judge in 2022-23, Shohei Ohtani in 2023-24 and Juan Soto in 2024-25. There certainly wasn’t much debate in any of those offseasons as to who was the top available bat.

Things are not quite so clear this time around. There are plenty of intriguing offensive players on the free-agent market , to be sure, but for the first time in a while, reasonable minds could disagree about who should be No. 1.

That’s where this free-agent edition of the Hitter Power Rankings comes into play. We had 14 voters rank the best available bats on this market, and they all agreed that a Kyle was at the top of the list. But which Kyle? In a close race, it was Schwarber

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