| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availability | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jhonny Level | 19 | Minors | SS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.2 | 17.8 | 22.2 | 26.7 | ||
| Willy Adames | 30 | Majors | SS | 2B | Medium | 5.4 | 82 | 123 | -41 | -49.3 | -41 | -32.8 |
| Cash | 30 |
Total Value:
11.2
| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availability | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Pena | 28 | Majors | SS | Low | 1.4 | 54.8 | 17.8 | 37 | 29.6 | 37 | 44.4 | |
| Cristian Javier | 29 | Majors | SP | Medium | 1.4 | 2.5 | 29 | -26.6 | -31.9 | -26.6 | -21.3 |
Total Value:
10.40
Houston Astros The Astros capitalize on a lost 2026 campaign by executing a masterful risk-mitigation strike before Jeremy Peña hits free agency in 2027. By packaging Peña with Cristian Javier’s underwater contract, Houston sheds roughly $29M in total salary while utilizing San Francisco's $30M cash infusion to actually save $5.3M against the 2027 luxury tax. In doing so, they secure a high-floor, long-term shortstop anchor in Willy Adames through 2031 and extract a premium 50-55 FV prospect in Jhonny Level to instantly rejuvenate their top-heavy farm system. Meanwhile, the Giants lean heavily into a necessary and long-overdue painful organizational reset by trading short-term luxury tax space for massive long-term financial liberation. While absorbing Javier’s debt ($21.4M in 2027) and Peña's arbitration raise creates a net +$5.3M CBT penalty for 2027, San Francisco greatly alleviates its Devers/Chapman burden from 2028 through 2031 by shedding the final four years of Adames’ $155M+ contract. Relinquishing Jhonny Level is a steep price, but it allows Buster Posey to clear a massive financial roadblock, enjoy an elite defensive shortstop stopgap in Peña, and emerge in 2028 with a far more favorable salary cap exactly as their other prospects are moving into the upper levels of the minors.