He literally posted this minutes around when the Mets said they're out on Alonso. His whole premise of using Vlad for leverage on Alonso went out the window real quick lol.
I have no issues giving Alonso a 4/100 and would go as high as 5/125. Pretty sure he's been trying to get 30M AAV based on reports so he'd have to come down on that for any long term deal.
This team desparately needs power and his down years are better than majority of the league's career years. He just turned 30 and I have faith that he'll still be able to keep on smashing until the very end.
Ya he's not playing like a 25M player anymore but if we can move him down to the 5th spot this year then it won't be as bad. I've been saying all off-season that our goal needs to be to move Springer out of the top 4 of our order. This is probably what's going to make or break the off-season for me.
"On Thursday, Drew VonScio of Newsweek proposed a deal that would ship Guerrero to New York for third baseman Mark Vientos, shortstop Jett Williams, and right-handed pitcher Jonah Tong."
So we're at the point where I can hope for Sasaki, Alonso, Santander and a re-signed Vladdy within the next month. Maybe replace Santandar with Profar here lol
This is inconjuction with the Mets trying to force Alonso's hand by making a final decision soon.
Report: Mets tell Alonso they need decision soon
https://thescore.com/mlb/news/3191597
This is inconjuction with the Mets trying to force Alonso's hand by making a final decision soon.
Report: Mets tell Alonso they need decision soon
https://thescore.com/mlb/news/3191597
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This alternative could still give us enough to sign Santandar since we're already rumored to be close on an offer. Bregman's salary would just be filling up Vlad's current slot.
Plus the Yankees gave a 1 year deal to Goldschmidt and the Red Sox want him too. Vlad would be dumb to sign anything right now unless a team trades for him and gives him like 500M.
Usually that is built into the potential trade you make with the team. If we're not going to seriously add 2 more bats and a decent starter to the team, we might as well take a step back by trading Vlad.