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A squad spurned is simply a unsafe team, and the New York Yankees look acceptable to spell atomic aft Juan Soto decided to ditch them for the New York Mets.
On Tuesday, the Yankees signed two-time All-Star Max Fried to an eight-year, $218 cardinal contract, the fourth-largest woody ever for a starting pitcher. It could beryllium lone the commencement of them utilizing their leftover savings from offering $760 cardinal to Soto.
Meanwhile, the Houston Astros are successful a hindrance with their ain budget. They've already fielded the highest payroll successful franchise history, and are trying desperately to bring backmost Alex Bregman successful escaped bureau for little than the $200 cardinal helium reportedly seeks.
If the Astros are struggling to wage Bregman, they're going to person a devil of a clip paying close fielder Kyle Tucker, who has been an adjacent bigger prima implicit the past 4 seasons. That has led to speculation astir the superstar being disposable successful trades, and the unthinkable present seems possible.
Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported that the Yankees were "in blistery pursuit" of Tucker via commercialized astatine the Winter Meetings, which are presently taking spot successful Dallas. Sherman besides reported that the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, and Philadelphia Phillies had expressed interest.
"More and more, it is appearing arsenic if the Astros are open to trading Kyle Tucker and the Yankees are among the teams astir earnestly pursuing the prima outfielder," Sherman wrote.
"Tucker, who turns 28 adjacent month, is simply a escaped cause aft the play and Juan Soto’s grounds 15-year, $765 cardinal contract with the Mets is present seen arsenic apt dragging Tucker up to a $300 cardinal oregon possibly adjacent $400 cardinal payday adjacent offseason. Houston proprietor Jim Crane has ne'er shown the tummy for the magnitude and dollars that are indispensable to support that benignant of player, which is wherefore Tucker has go specified a blistery taxable astatine these meetings."
Though 1 ne'er knows what the marketplace volition look similar successful a year's time, it seems wholly plausible that Tucker could bid $400 million. He's a fastener for a 5-WAR play arsenic agelong arsenic helium stays healthy, and enactment up a .993 OPS successful 2024 contempt being constricted to 78 games.
One could forgive the Astros for reasoning trading Tucker is indispensable if they person nary accidental of keeping him beyond adjacent season. It's conscionable hard to ideate them trading him specifically to the Yankees, who are possibly their main rivals successful the American League.
If the Yankees stroke them distant with the champion imaginable commercialized package, though, presumably starting with apical imaginable Jasson Domínguez? Never accidental never.
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