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Jay Bruce Willing To Waive No-Trade Clause In Deal To Contender

By Jeff Todd | June 30, 2016 at 10:43pm CDT

Reds outfielder Jay Bruce has a limited no-trade clause, but doesn’t intend to use that to hold up a deal to a contending club this summer, MLB.com’s Mark Sheldon reports. Bruce sits at the top overall spot on MLBTR’s most recent top trade candidates list.

The NTC would let Bruce reject deals to the Yankees, Red Sox, Athletics, Rays, Marlins, Twins, Indians and Diamondbacks. Jon Heyman of todaysknuckleball.com repored earlier today that Bruce would quite likely be willing to go to Cleveland, and it appears that he’d also be amenable to other hypothetical landing spots. Rumblings have connected Bruce to a variety of clubs, including the Dodgers, Giants, White Sox, and Royals since the start of the season.

Bruce, 29, tells Sheldon that he’s willing to “consider waiving the no-trade clause for all types of reasons,” with “no blanket reason I wouldn’t.” The veteran said he’d need to take each situation as it comes, with agent Matt Sosnick saying that such a choice has yet to be brought to their attention.

Bruce continued on to emphasize that he’d be quite interested in an opportunity to join an organization that has designs on contending. “If I am moved, which has seemed likely for the last year and a half, I’d like to go where the team is mostly likely to win,” he said. “Teams that want me are likely seeking somebody to help them win.”

Notably, Sosnick suggested that Bruce won’t necessarily be looking to utilize the clause for leverage with regard to his contract. “We’re not setting in stone any financial qualifiers,” he said. “If the deal is good for Jay and good for the Reds, he would consider anything — including waiving the no-trade. … There is no team that he would unequivocally not go to.”

Bruce has increasingly cemented his status as a premium trade piece, as he is once again hitting like the All-Star-caliber player he was from 2011 through 2013. The two intervening seasons are easier and easier to forget, as he carries a .279/.325/.568 slash with 17 home runs and a league-leading six triples into July. Bruce’s early-career extension is another asset: he’s earning $12.5MM this year and can be controlled for $13MM in 2017, which is particularly appealing with a dearth of young sluggers on the upcoming free agent market.

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24 Comments

  1. Gogerty

    9 years ago

    I think he could be a great trade piece for any contender…. He deserves a chance to win.

    Reply
    • stymeedone

      9 years ago

      What makes a player deserving of a chance to win?

      Reply
      • Gogerty

        9 years ago

        I just meant he has been a good to great player that deserves a chance to be on a contender.

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        • Ray Ray

          9 years ago

          He has been on a contender. The Reds were the best team in the NL just 4 short years ago. By the way, what type of player deserves to be on a non-contending team?

          Reply
        • jbellfp

          9 years ago

          Arod

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        • Gogerty

          9 years ago

          Clearly I cannot give credit and support to a player. Oh and to answer that question, I would say Braun and ARod, to name a couple.

          Reply
        • dorfmac

          9 years ago

          David Ortiz. He has a history of abuse relating to dugout phones, and abusers in the year 2016 don’t belong.

          Reply
        • astros_should_be_fortyfives

          9 years ago

          The reds most certainly were not the best nl team four years ago, granted they had a better record than the world series winners (Giants) the Nats had a better record than reds and their division was extremely week astros cubs pirates and brewers so they had the easier schedule and lost in first round of playoffs.

          Reply
  2. Bob Smiley

    9 years ago

    Royals. Giants. i’d like to see him end up with one of those 2 but i’m not sure the prospects in return would be great from those squads.

    Reply
    • Deke

      9 years ago

      Do the Royals have a bad farm system? I know the Giants have but Royals I always just thought were okay??

      Reply
      • formerjuicer

        9 years ago

        From what I recall they gave up some of their best talent to pickup Queries and Zobrist last year and it hasn’t been replenished yet, it’s probably in the bottom third as of right now.

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        • Connorsoxfan

          9 years ago

          Cueto?

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        • krillin

          9 years ago

          No way the giants would give up a top caliber arm at this point. I love seeing blockbuster deals, but I doubt the Reds want to take on that salary and I doubt the Giants want to move one their best pitchers at this time.

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        • eggy

          9 years ago

          He was asking whether former juicer meant cueto not queries

          Reply
        • krillin

          9 years ago

          Wow… haha my bad

          Reply
      • redsfanman

        9 years ago

        The Royals already traded 3 pitchers (Reed, Finnegan, Lamb) to the Reds for Cueto, making up some of the Reds’ current surplus of starting pitching prospects. I’m skeptical that they match up again for another trade, the Reds now need hitters and seemingly got most of what they wanted out of the Royals’ system.

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  3. Tribe82

    9 years ago

    Why not Cleveland? We’ve got the prospects…

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    • Ray Ray

      9 years ago

      The Reds have always been hesitant to deal with Cleveland. The owner doesn’t want a “Reds player” selling tickets for the other Ohio team. I laughed hard when he said that for many reasons. The biggest reason is that Cleveland has the lowest attendance in the league (which is just stupid because they have a really good team).

      Reply
      • Polish Hammer

        9 years ago

        Yeah, the Reds are still pissed about getting fleeced by Cleveland by taking Brandon Phillips for that bag of BP balls and resin bag.

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    • dhud

      9 years ago

      Because the Reds would probably start by asking for Frazier or Zimmer and Cleveland has been notable reluctant to consider either in trade talks

      Reply
  4. xufan1

    9 years ago

    Reading this article just made me lose even more respect for Brandon Phillips and I didn’t think that was possible. Phillips reportedly rejected at least two trades in the offseason. One was apparently to the Nationals where he would have not only played for a contender but would also have been reunited with Dusty Baker. Reading the comments from Bruce’s agent just made more convinced that the Reds should just DFA and cut the egotistical and underperforming Phillips and play Peraza at second base the rest of the year. THAT would be a positive message to send to fans: “We aren’t going to let this clown slow down our rebuild”.

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  5. redsfanman

    9 years ago

    So, to find a match look to teams that have hitting prospects to trade. Particularly outfield prospects. Probably not 1b (Votto), 3b (Senzel). Peraza (SS/2b/CF) and Hamilton (CF) remain in the picture, and won’t be replaced by worse players.

    Bradley Zimmer or Clint Frazier would be steals in return for Bruce, but I doubt they’d move either in such a deal and there’s little else in the Indians’ farm system that really seems to fit the Reds’ needs. Here’s hoping that Bradley Zimmer’s low batting average this season has sufficiently lowered his value for him to be traded to the Reds.

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    • Polish Hammer

      9 years ago

      No way Zimmer gets dealt straight up for Bruce, but they do have decent prospects outside of him and Frazier.

      Reply
  6. nrd1138

    9 years ago

    Id say the White Sox need him, but where to play him? Eaton has been awesome in RF. As for having pieces to trade…the Sox really need more than one player here (arguably need a manager that knows what he is doing as well) so trading the farm for 1 guy seems a bit nuts at this point.

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