{"id":24327,"date":"2025-02-08T06:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T06:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=24327"},"modified":"2025-02-08T06:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T06:45:42","slug":"breaking-yankees-enter-trade-talks-for-260m-8-time-all-star-arch-rival-eyes-him-as-top-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=24327","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;BREAKING: Yankees Enter Trade Talks for $260M 8-Time All-Star \u2013 Arch-Rival Eyes Him as Top Target!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yankees-Nolan-Arenado-Trade-Talks.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yankees-Nolan-Arenado-Trade-Talks.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yankees-Nolan-Arenado-Trade-Talks.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yankees-Nolan-Arenado-Trade-Talks.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Nolan Arenado\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"502\" data-dom-ready-time=\"518\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Nolan Arenado<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Heading into this offseason, the Boston Red Sox were quite public about their desire to add an impact, right-handed bat to their lineup. Chief of baseball operations Craig Breslow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2024\/12\/after-rotation-adds-red-sox-craig-breslow-outlines-which-moves-are-next.html\">has repeatedly stated<\/a>\u00a0that a righty hitter is one of the club\u2019s top priorities before they embark on the 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>But with the Red Sox first full-squad workout of spring training, with all players required to report, scheduled for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/02\/when-do-red-sox-pitchers-and-catchers-report-whens-the-first-spring-training-game.html\">just 10 days from today<\/a>\u00a0the Boston franchise has not made a move to acquire that righty hitter. In fact, the Red Sox\u2019 entire offseason has effectively ground to a halt. Since the calendar flipped to 2025, the Red Sox have made only one addition to their 40-man roster. That was Blake Sobol, a third-year catcher who saw action in just 11 Major League games for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sabolbl01.shtml\">the San Francisco Giants last season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sobol is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/mlb\/news\/red-sox-acquire-catcher-blake-sabol-from-giants-for-international-signing-pool-allocation\">seen as a depth piece<\/a> for the Red Sox and is unlikely to see action at the big league level except in case of emergency.<\/p>\n<h2>Red Sox Have Pursued Nolan Arenado in Trade Talks<\/h2>\n<p>While the Red Sox have done basically nothing for more than a month, that does not mean they have not been attempting to make moves \u2014 and one of the biggest in which they are reportedly involved is a potential trade for St. Louis Cardinals veteran third baseman Nolan Arenado.\u00a0 Arenado is reported to have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/boston-red-sox-nolan-arenado-trade-rumors-mlb\/\">a strong interest in coming<\/a>\u00a0to Boston. But no deal has been made yet and according to multiple reports on Friday, the Red Sox may now face a new rival in the competition for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/arenano01.shtml\">eight-time All-Star\u2019s services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That competition, according to the reports, comes from the Red Sox longtime arch-rival, the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Arenado will be playing the final two years of an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/2819432-nolan-arenado-rockies-officially-agree-to-8-year-contract-extension\">eight-year, $260 million<\/a>\u00a0contract extension he signed with his original team, the Colorado Rockies, prior to the 2019 season. Whether the Cardinals are willing to absorb a portion of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/12643\/nolan-arenado\">$37 million Arenado is owed<\/a>\u00a0for those two seasons could be the key to any deal.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between the Red Sox and Cardinals fell apart in January when Boston demanded that St. Louis absorb $20 million of Arenado\u2019s upcoming paycheck,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/cardinals\/news\/cardinals-get-michael-helman-in-trade-with-twins\">according to John Denton of\u00a0<em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a>. But Denton also reported that negotiations on an Arenado trade between the two teams have picked up again in February.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, the Yankees are also at the table, according to Denton, threatening to swoop in and sign their AL East rival\u2019s coveted trade target out from under them.<\/p>\n<p>Should the Red Sox be worried? As Ryan Garcia of the New York-centric\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/empiresportsmedia.com\/new-york-yankees\/yankees-nolan-arenado-trade-deal\/\">sports site\u00a0<em>Empire Sports Media<\/em><\/a>\u00a0wrote, the Red Sox could put together a more attractive trade package.<\/p>\n<h2>Yankees in on Trade Talks but Have Less to Offer<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cBaseball America ranked the Yankees\u2019 farm system 25th in the sport, while the Red Sox ranked first on their list, so in terms of prospect ammo, New York has far less to offer,\u201d Garcia noted.<\/p>\n<p>He also sounded a pessimistic note about Arenado\u2019s fit with the Bronx Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYankee Stadium does not fit what Nolan Arenado brings to the table offensively, as he\u2019s a pull-happy hitter who has lost most of his raw power,\u201d Garcia wrote. \u201cIt would take the Cardinals eating some significant money and other teams refusing to part ways with prospects to even remotely make sense of an Arenado pursuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Denton reported that the Cardinals are interested in making\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/2024\/redsox\/blaze-jordan-691458\">the Red Sox No. 22-ranked prospect<\/a>, right-handed power bat Blaze Jordan, a key to the Arenado trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Nolan Arenado Heading into this offseason, the Boston Red Sox were quite public about their desire to add an impact, right-handed bat to their lineup. 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