{"id":11241,"date":"2024-12-16T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=11241"},"modified":"2024-12-16T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T01:41:09","slug":"breaking-yankees-considering-surprising-trade-to-bring-in-100-million-rizzo-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=11241","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Yankees Considering Surprising Trade to Bring In $100 Million Rizzo Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Yankees-Consider-Surprising-Trade-Rizzo-Replacement.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Anthony Rizzo bites his hand\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Anthony Rizz<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ever since the New York Yankees\u00a0declined to exercise their team\u00a0option on veteran first baseman Anthony Rizzo, the club has been shopping around for a player who can take over the position without losing offensive production. They may also be looking to do it while saving money. Rizzo would have been paid $17 million in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Now, according to longtime Major League Baseball\u00a0insider journalist Jon Heyman, the Yankees are \u201cconsidering\u201d a move that would bring them a replacement who would\u00a0cost them $14.2 million\u00a0next season, while bringing a significant upgrade in production, at least in comparison to Rizzo\u2019s struggles in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But if the Yankees actually go ahead and make the deal that they reportedly have under consideration, they would likely need to offer a contract extension to the new first baseman, one estimated to\u00a0cost about $100 million over five years.<\/p>\n<h2>Yankees \u2018Considering\u2019 Deal for Josh Naylor<\/h2>\n<p>The player reportedly being looked at by the Yankees is Cleveland Guardians 27-year-old\u00a0left-handed slugger Josh Naylor. Heyman offered no speculation on what sort of package the Yankees would offer to Cleveland \u2014 the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/postseason\/2024_ALCS.shtml\">team New York defeated<\/a>\u00a0in the 2024 American League Championship Series to get to the World Series in 2024 \u2014 in exchange for Naylor.<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\/josh-naylor-anthony-rizzo-trade\/\">earlier proposal floated<\/a>\u00a0by Yankees-watchers called for sending the organization\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/yankees\/will-warren-701542\">fifth-ranked prospect Will Warren<\/a>, who was picked by the Yankees in the eighth round of the 2021 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Warren made his Major League debut with the Yankees in 2024,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=warren004wil\">struggling through five starts<\/a>\u00a0and one relief outing. Warren posted a bloated 10.32 ERA, allowing 26 earned runs, including five home runs, in 22 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>Naylor has only one year remaining on his contract, so without an extension he would be a one-year rental, which could bring the price for acquiring him down.<\/p>\n<p>How does\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stathead.com\/baseball\/versus-finder.cgi?player_id2=rizzo-001ant&amp;year_min=2024&amp;player_id1=naylor001jos&amp;seasons_type=forall&amp;request=1&amp;utm_medium=sr_xsite&amp;utm_campaign=2023_01_wdgt_player_comparison&amp;utm_source=br&amp;utm_id=naylojo01\">Naylor compare to Rizzo<\/a>? Based on the comparative statistics offered by Stathead, the answer is \u2014 quite well. At least based on 2024 performance.<\/p>\n<h2>Naylor Would be a Significant Upgrade<\/h2>\n<p>Naylor\u2019s Wins Above Replacement (WAR) number was 1.5, which is not exactly eye-popping, but makes him a far more valuable player than Rizzo was at a 0.2 WAR number. Naylor also recorded an OPS+ of 118 compared to just 81 for Rizzo.<\/p>\n<p>OPS+ is a rating that compares a players On-base Plus Slugging (OPS) percentage to the league average. In any year, the average OPS+ is fixed at 100. Any number over 100 is better than average, and number under 100 is worse.<\/p>\n<p>Though he weighs 250 pounds and stands a squat 5\u201911\u201d, Naylor somehow stole six bases in 2024. Rizzo did not record a steal. Naylor has stolen 25 bases in his six-year career. Finally, Naylor slugged 31 home runs in 2024 to a mere eight for Rizzo.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs Cody Bellinger remains the Yankees\u2019 top target, but according to Heyman the two teams still have a significant gap in what it would take to acquire the veteran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Rizz Ever since the New York Yankees\u00a0declined to exercise their team\u00a0option on veteran first baseman Anthony Rizzo, the club has been shopping around for a player&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Yankees Considering Surprising Trade to Bring In $100 Million Rizzo Replacement - 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