In 2022, Aaron Judge had maybe the best "walk year" in Major League Baseball history, mashing 62 home runs before signing a nine-year, $360 million mega deal.
Most of the players on this year's list pale in comparison to that extravaganza, but there are quite a few guys putting together remarkable breakout/bounce-back campaigns at precisely the right time to cash in in a big way.
Just so we're clear up front, this isn't meant to be a ranking of the free agents who will sign the biggest contracts this offseason. (I wrote one of those two months ago, though, if that's what you want to read.