{"id":16482,"date":"2025-01-02T09:38:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=16482"},"modified":"2025-01-02T09:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:38:50","slug":"breaking-yankees-favored-to-land-427-million-superstar-if-trade-talks-heat-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=16482","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\u2019s 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\u2019s unlikely Guerrero will sign an extension with the market being set so incredibly high by Soto. If the superstar slugger doesn\u2019t want to sign an extension with the Blue Jays, Toronto may explore the possibility of trading him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>Christopher Kline of FanSided recently put together a list of the top five suitors for the Blue Jays\u2019 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 \u2013 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\u2026<\/span>\u00a0<button id=\"read-more-cap\">More<\/button>\u00a0<span class=\"credit ar23-credit\">Jim McIsaac\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis would be the funniest outcome, if only because Guerrero once said he wanted to \u2018kill\u2019 the Yankees and would never play for the Bronx Bombers,\u00a0citing a family beef,\u201d Kline wrote. \u201cThat 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>\u201cThe Yankees are desperate to replace Soto\u2019s bat and stockpile star power around Judge. Guerrero, like Soto, is extremely young and extremely accomplished at the same time. He\u2019s quite literally the next-best option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the Yankees would love to land Guerrero, there\u2019s no feasible way a trade would ever come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>For one, the Blue Jays wouldn\u2019t 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\u2019t have the prospect capital to make a deal happen.<\/p>\n<p>This just isn\u2019t 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\u2019t 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\u2019s contract expires at the end of the 2025&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16482","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=16482\" \/>\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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