The Giants and Blue Jays are among a half-dozen teams showing significant interest in star right-hander Corbin Burnes, and new Giants baseball president Buster Posey met late Tuesday with Burnes’ agent, Scott Boras.
Both these teams put in outstanding efforts to sign big-time players, and while both have experienced some struggles in that area, it’s possible the Giants could hold an allure for Burnes, a California native who’s spent his career in Milwaukee and Baltimore.
Posey, as a future Hall of Fame Giant, is likely a good person to sell San Francisco.
He already lured star shortstop Willy Adames with a $182 million, seven-year deal.
While the Giants have a decent rotation with a bona fide ace in Logan Webb, Burnes would make them a wild-card threat in an impossible division.
The Jays, at many times the dollar leader in the Juan Soto sweepstakes, also are in the mix.
The incumbent Orioles are in, as well, though presumably the Yankees and Red Sox’s interest diminished with the acquisitions of Fried and Garrett Crochet, respectively. …
The Padres are listening on almost all their veterans (surely not Manny Machado or Yu Darvish).
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They have received inquiries on Dylan Cease, Luis Arraez and even Xander Bogaerts, whose famous $285M deal doesn’t look quite so overpriced now that prices are skyrocketing.
The Yankees failed to land star left-hander Garrett Crochet because they wouldn’t part with both Jasson Dominguez and George Lombard Jr.
The Yankees made offers but “never got close.”
The Mets also failed to land Crochet because they wouldn’t surrender the tandem of Brandon Sproat and Jett Williams.
So they also never got especially close, either.
The White Sox sought two top-100-type prospects for Crochet, an All-Star lefty with a huge arm, and considering Crochet is only arbitration eligible and will be paid well under his true value the next two seasons before he reaches free agency, that was fair.
In any case, they got it from the Red Sox, who parted with catcher Kyle Teel and outfielder Braden Montgomery in a four-player package.
It was a little surprising Triston Casas wasn’t included in the deal as the Red Sox seem intent on moving longtime star 3B Rafael Devers to first base.
But the White Sox may be OK with Andrew Vaughn as their first baseman.
Crochet, a terrific talent who’s been underpaid due to past injuries, might be open to an extension.
