MLB Rumors: Jorge Soler, Giants Agree to 3-Year, $42M Contract in 2024 Free Agency

Coming off one of the best years of his career, veteran slugger Jorge Soler will reportedly have a new home for the 2024 season.

According to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle, Soler has reached an agreement with the San Francisco Giants on a three-year contract. ESPN's Jeff Passan provided additional details:

Soler had become a free agent after he declined the $9 million player option on his contract (which carried $4 million in incentives) for the 2024 season after spending the last two years with the Miami Marlins. The franchise also chose not to extend him a qualifying offer, leaving him free to test the open market and ultimately land with the Giants.

The 31-year-old was selected to the All-Star Game for the first time in his 10-year career as the National League's designated hitter. He finished the season with a slash line of .250/.341/.512 along with 36 home runs and 75 RBI across 138 games. It was his second-most homers and RBI in a single season in his career.

A righty power hitter from Havana, Cuba, Soler has also played for the Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals and Atlanta Braves. He led the American League with a career-high 48 home runs in 2019, and he's a two-time World Series champion—one coming in 2016 with the Royals and the other in 2021 with the Braves.

Soler earned World Series MVP honors in the latter year after hitting .300 with three home runs and six RBI over the six-game series. He became the second Cuban-born player to win the award after Liván Hernández, who did so with the Marlins in 1997.

Thanks to Soler's impressive season, Miami finished with an 84-78 record and made the playoffs for the first time since 2020 before losing to the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League Wild Card Series. It was the franchise's first time winning 80 or more games since the 2010 campaign.

Now, Soler will bring his talents to a San Francisco squad that went 79-83 last season and missed the playoffs for the second straight year. He will surely be motivated to try to add another World Series ring to his mantel.