Although the catcher-needy Rays covet Brewers backstop Jonathan Lucroy, their aversion to trading prospects makes them unlikely to acquire the 29-year-old if Milwaukee shops him, FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reports (video link). The Cubs, like the Rays, are also a poor bet to land Lucroy. Chicago inquired about Lucroy’s availability during the offseason and even explored the idea of involving a third club to help make a trade happen with the division-rival Brewers, says Rosenthal, who adds that talks didn’t get serious then and probably won’t around the deadline. As Rosenthal notes, the Cubs have $14MM catcher Miguel Montero at the major league level, and highly regarded prospect Willson Contereras is laying waste to Triple-A pitching.
Even if the Rays and Cubs aren’t in the running to pick up Lucroy, there should still be plenty of suitors for him, as MLBTR’s Mark Polishuk detailed Friday.
More from Rosenthal:
- The Nationals’ top priority before the trade deadline is to acquire a dominant reliever like the Yankees’ Aroldis Chapman or Andrew Miller (as Bill Ladson of MLB.com reported last weekend), but the Bombers might not make either available and the Nats could balk at their asking price if they do, according to Rosenthal. Nationals relievers entered Saturday with the league’s fifth-best ERA (3.11) and sixth-ranked K/BB ratio (3.16), for one, and the organization has a pair of hard-throwing potential reinforcements in Double-A prospects Reynaldo Lopez and Koda Glover. The latter was an eighth-round pick just last year.
- The Rockies have until Wednesday to either add shortstop Jose Reyes to their roster, trade him or designate him for assignment, and executives tell Rosenthal that Colorado is continuing to shop the 32-year-old. However, there are plenty of questions about how much he’s capable of contributing in the majors at this point, per Rosenthal. Reyes, who served a domestic violence suspension through May, is coming off arguably the worst season of his career and is still owed upward of $40MM – including a $4MM buyout in 2018.
Send Reyes to the Cardinals, they don’t care about character
ehhhhh idk about having him on the roster when you already have 2 well performing shortstops
The cardinals are also the last team on earth that need a shortstop atm…
Lmfao
Dumbest comment ever.
I hate the Cardinals as much as the next guy, they ruined a 102 win season for us that kicked off half a decade of misery. However, the Cardinals are one of the classiest organizations in the game, with the exception of the one scandal (that was one former employee). They go by a set of rules called the Cardinal Way, and it outlines the organizations expectations of their players inside and outside the clubhouse. While I wouldn’t dismiss it out of hand had it been a smart business decision for them, but with Aledmys and Peralta, they wouldn’t be able to do that deal.
Be careful not to drink too much of that Redbird Koolaid.
I cant believe they drafted him. OF COURSE they would!
But you’d be happy if your favorite team drafted him. You think an estimated #2 overall talent will go undrafted by any of the 30 teams?
Exactly. He’s a 17 year old kid. He screwed up. Some team was going to take him. I think it’s dumb how people are condemning the Cardinals.
Reyes to Yankees. They need a good bat anyways
Don’t they have DD for the next three years?
Agreed. Reyes only has an opening at 1B in NYY
The Os DH has been weak so far this season, perhaps they could slot Reyes in there?
No thanks – Pedro has started showing signs of life recently, and Baltimore isn’t really too keen on domestic violence after the elevator incident…
I’m glad the Rays aren’t going for him. Dudes legit, but from everything I have seen, the asking price is steep for two years worth of service.
Plus it is not like he is under contract for 3 or more years.
Hell send him to Atlanta with $8m for Markakis. At this point character issues won’t hurt the team any more and it will be the same as the Bourn/Swish/CJ trade.
Besides the Braves have plenty of SS’s near the majors and a lack of OF. Would make zero sense.
Near ready, maybe. But Reyes is ready and even with diminished skills ahead of what is in place. Depth chart at OF is stacked with enough part timers. Getting out of Markakis 2018 millions would be helpful.
Swanson is two months away from being the Braves SS for the next 6+ years. They don’t need Reyes blocking him.
I hope they do not call Swanson up for the rest of the year in August.
So take away Markakais 11 mil or 22 mil for 2 seasons for Reyes 40 mil ? That makes sense. ..
If looking at contracts, not included prorated dollars for this year, Braves would take on $40M through buyout of 2018. Therefore paying $7M to rid themselves of the $11M in 2018.
Braves took on $14M (Bourn and Swish) in 2016 to rid themselves of the $9M of CJ on in 2017. Reyes probably has more playability in 2017 than Bourn and Swish did this year. Was just an idea to also bridge Swanson and not rush him up.
Reyes has negative value at this point. He’s owed $39.6 million over the next 3 seasons and on top of the whole character issues, his OPS+ was 82 last year and his power and speed seem to be declining and with the emergence of Trevor Story and their push to trade him, the Rockies have zero leverage in a trade, therefore, they would likely have to give up something to accompany a trade, whether it be to pay down the salary to a nub or to throw in some young players to clear some money (possibly to clear room for an Arenado extension)– Regardless, Bridich has to get creative with this one and I am interested to see what he does. Wouldn’t mind seeing Philly take on that money and try to snag a prospect.
What about taking on a bad contract in return? Markakis and/ Olivera.
Why would the rockies do that? By picking up olivera they’re just shuffling up their domestic violence hand
My only thought there was spreading the money out as opposed to the Reyes contract and if they attempt to move CarGo they have two OFs in return. By no means CarGo stats, but depth.
Send Reyes to Detroit. Would really help them as a whole. Would got in very well with the other Spanish-speaking guys. Ship Iglesias, Collins, and Machado or something to that extent.
Tigers need pitching. They are also unwilling to add major salary as they are already over the soft cap. Also,Iglesias is better than reyes defensively.
Maybe Reyes would fit with the Diamondbacks. Mr. Baseball(Tony LaRussa) needs one more dumb personnel move to earn the hat trick in 2016.
Amazed with that front office. Stewart gets all the flack, but LaRussa gets pegged as the great baseball mind.
Although Tulo hasn’t looked the greatest at the plate, I’m so glad the Jays were able to get rid of Reyes, even before all the domestic stuff. He was terrible defensively, and just didn’t seem to care. I’m sure he cared, he just didn’t seem to, he had all these secret handshakes and celebration moves, yet cost the Jays a lot of games and was their highest paid player. Dodged a bullet on that one.
Tulo’s bat is declining, his defense is declining, he is owed ~$50m more, and also cost Jeff Hoffman.
Yeah I thought that was a good trade on Jays part early on. I think biggest part just getting Tulo out of COL, hope he turns it around for you guys.