{"id":15992,"date":"2024-12-31T03:54:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T03:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=15992"},"modified":"2024-12-31T03:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T03:54:54","slug":"breaking-yankees-favored-to-land-427-million-superstar-if-trade-talks-heat-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=15992","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Yankees Favored To Land $427 Million Superstar If Trade Talks Heat Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays may not reach a contract extension with their superstar first baseman, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Guerrero&#8217;s contract expires at the end of the 2025 season and the young slugger just watched Juan Soto land a deal worth nearly $800 million.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unlikely Guerrero will sign an extension with the market being set so incredibly high by Soto. If the superstar slugger doesn&#8217;t want to sign an extension with the Blue Jays, Toronto may explore the possibility of trading him.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Kline of FanSided recently put together a list of the top five suitors for the Blue Jays&#8217; first baseman. Surprisingly, Kline\u00a0favored the New York Yankees, listing them second.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"imageBox\">\n<div class=\"innerBox ar23-innerBox\"><picture class=\"mapping-embed\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2553566\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.webp?w=790&amp;f=fda45ea75e45d49cc7e713feb5a93e7d 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2553566\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.jpg?w=790&amp;f=fda45ea75e45d49cc7e713feb5a93e7d 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2553566\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.webp?w=900&amp;f=5ae29b6656da1864269158913a47775f 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2553566\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.jpg?w=900&amp;f=5ae29b6656da1864269158913a47775f 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2553566\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.webp?w=790&amp;f=fda45ea75e45d49cc7e713feb5a93e7d 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2553566\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.jpg?w=790&amp;f=fda45ea75e45d49cc7e713feb5a93e7d 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2553566\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.webp?w=450&amp;f=8e207063352f89d866d72d2eaf547f61 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2553566\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.jpg?w=450&amp;f=8e207063352f89d866d72d2eaf547f61 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2553566\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.webp?w=1200&amp;f=08e3a94f970ac3d4b837075d297be93c\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i2553566\" class=\"mapping-embed imgPhoto\" src=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2553566\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.jpg?w=1200&amp;f=08e3a94f970ac3d4b837075d297be93c\" alt=\"Toronto Blue Jays infielder Vladimir Guerrero Jr.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"848\" \/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption ar23-caption\"><span id=\"short-cap-description\" class=\"cap\">NEW YORK, NEW YORK &#8211; AUGUST 02: Juan Soto #22 of the New York Yankees jokes with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. #27 of the Toronto Blue Jays at second base after his double during the first&#8230;<\/span>\u00a0<button id=\"read-more-cap\">More<\/button>\u00a0<span class=\"credit ar23-credit\">Jim McIsaac\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;This would be the funniest outcome, if only because Guerrero once said he wanted to &#8216;kill&#8217; the Yankees and would never play for the Bronx Bombers,\u00a0citing a family beef,&#8221; Kline wrote. &#8220;That was a little more than a year ago, so not exactly ancient history. That said, Guerrero \u2014 perhaps in anticipation of this exact sequence of events \u2014\u00a0has since changed his tune.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Yankees are desperate to replace Soto&#8217;s bat and stockpile star power around Judge. Guerrero, like Soto, is extremely young and extremely accomplished at the same time. He&#8217;s quite literally the next-best option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the Yankees would love to land Guerrero, there&#8217;s no feasible way a trade would ever come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>For one, the Blue Jays wouldn&#8217;t be willing to deal their young superstar to a hated rival like New York. Even if they were willing to send Guerrero to the Yankees, New York doesn&#8217;t have the prospect capital to make a deal happen.<\/p>\n<p>This just isn&#8217;t a realistic option no matter how much the Yankees would love for it to happen. New York could sign him in free agency next winter, but it won&#8217;t land him sooner than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays may not reach a contract extension with their superstar first baseman, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Guerrero&#8217;s contract expires at the end of the 2025&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING : Yankees Favored To Land $427 Million Superstar If Trade Talks Heat Up - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=15992\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : Yankees Favored To Land $427 Million Superstar If Trade Talks Heat Up - 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