He doesn't want that. On and on the list goes. Wouldn't a Pujols return to the Cards be something, especially at bargain basement prices? … Andujar does not have a clear path to playing time with the Yankees and, to make matters worse, he has a minor-league option remaining, so the Yankees can easily stash him in Triple-A in 2021. A name that comes up more and more in trade talks recently is Mike Trout, playing on a bad Los Angeles Angels team without very little young talent and problems all over. He has 10 years and $354.5 million remaining on his contract and only a few teams can afford that (or are willing to afford it). Contenders or postseason bubble teams like the Athletics, Blue Jays, Brewers, Giants, and Marlins could all make room for Story. Minus a World Series, the way to Moreno's heart is through his pocketbook. Absent that, it's hard to think Story is eager to sign with Colorado long-term. The only ring Moreno's experienced is the one around the clubhouse hot tub, which is still stained from all the hours Josh Hamilton spent soaking his limbs in there after ball games. Pederson still goes to Anaheim in such a trade, and perhaps Scott Van Slyke to play first for a time in Pujols' stead. A 1-2 punch of Mike Trout and Joey Votto is the stuff that dreams are made of. Andujar is also blocked ... That's rough. SB15. Unquestionably if you have the choice to either trade away or trade for Mike Trout you need to trade for Trout. Of course the team needs starting pitchers (plural), a left fielder, and they'd require a replacement for Trout to play center should he be dealt. Over the last few years, the Dodgers have built one of the best farm systems in baseball, and a trade for Trout could single-handedly take the club from a top farm system to an average one. News : Mike Trout did not play during Sunday's 5-0 loss against the Dodgers to conclude the Angels season. The Rockies could use a third baseman to kick off the post-Arenado era, for example. ... Dodgers' Turner still feels 'void' from WS final out. All Rights Reserved. Sorry, third baseman. They're going to be bad with or without him in 2021, and you don't want to lose him for nothing (nothing but a dinky compensation draft pick, I should say) as a free agent next offseason. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images). I agree that CBS Sports can send me the "CBS Sports HQ" newsletter. By Mike Trout standards he is off to a slow start, but that’s a result of just how good he has been in his short career. I'm also just fine with Joc Pederson in L.A. for years to come -- and that's actual Los Angeles, not Anaheim! He turned only 28 in November, and he's put up a .292/.355/.554 batting line while playing in 361 of 384 possible games since 2018. How The Dodgers Are Uniquely Poised To Trade For Mike Trout The Dodgers can sweeten the pot, certainly, and are uniquely in position to do so. And second, he is owed $35.45 million a year from 2021-30. Cleveland has such good pitching and just enough offense that FanGraphs projections have the team within striking distance of an AL wild card spot. Nick Cafardo has a list of "10 teams who could pull off a trade for Mike Trout" at the Boston Globe, David Schoenfield offers his set of package proposals at ESPN.com and Kenny Ducey contributes another list at SI.com. And who else is better positioned to take on that kind of "sunk cost" than L.A.'s Guggenheim Partners? It would be in the game's best interests to get Trout into the postseason every single year. But the fun of having Trout on the trade market is that as long as you can take on Trout's short-term salary -- he'll make $66.5 million combined in 2019 and '20, an absolute steal -- you can have Mike Trout (Mike Trout!) CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: mlb | pageType: stories | Story is a star. The Dodgers … The Angels are unlikely to trade Trout to a team in their division. The Giants selected the Georgia high school right-hander and … In an earlier life, I produced news-talk radio, worked Boxing Press Operations for the 1984 Olympics (Evander Holyfield’s year) and delivered pizzas in Beverly Hills with Tim Robbins. Translation: Take what's left of Albert Pujols' monster 10-year contract off my hands. View Profile. Yankees' Miguel Andujar has hired The MAS+ Agency. I want to get to the playoffs. There is no longer an official mechanism for requesting a trade in baseball, but Arenado forced the team into it with his unhappiness. General rule of thumb though: Orioles castoffs won't solve your pitching problems, yet the Angels went back to that well with Cobb. section: | slug: four-mlb-players-who-could-request-a-trade-including-mike-trout-and-a-forgotten-yankees-player | sport: baseball | route: article_single.us | Well, team president Chris Antonetti is already recycling the old "we expect him to be with us on Opening Day" line with Jose Ramirez, except he's mixing up the positions. And they need to think very very carefully before parting with Julio Urias. ... even though they should. It's Arte Moreno who writes the Angels' checks, and he's been writing a lot of them in recent years, with absolutely nothing to show for it in terms of jewelry. News : Mike Trout did not play during Sunday's 5-0 loss against the Dodgers to conclude the Angels season. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 4 / 7 Winning with Ramirez is doable, but, with the club slashing payroll and the next Lindor not walking through the door anytime soon, I wouldn't blame Ramirez for wanting to play for a team with a better chance to go to the World Series and, frankly, a deeper commitment to winning. MLB All-Star Game 2019 starters: Cody Bellinger, Mike Trout lead list "Maybe one year I'll say to myself, 'Hey, let's do it,'" Trout said ( per ESPN ). He's the only player in this post who would help his team by requesting a trade. No one ever said these deals were cheap. The larger point is, under no circumstances are the Dodgers to include Corey Seager in any deal, not even for baseball's best player. It's time. Rarely do you see any two without the third in a trade scenario, and sometimes the three represent a mere starting point, as if Los Angeles would be expected to sweeten the pot. Not great! No, really. And, truth be told, Story requesting a trade would be beneficial for him and the Rockies. All the Angels have to do is put a .500-ish team around him to get to October, but that has proven to be a bridge too far. Yikes. First, let’s take a moment to appreciate how long we’ve been able to use Trout as the crown jewel of dynasty assets. Writing credits include Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, Westways, Guardian, Orange County…. Ramirez will be next and it would be understandable if he wants to get it over with sooner rather than later. hitting a home run in the sixth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park on May 2, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Unclear. Cahill, Harvey, and Teheran all actively hurt the team, and Quintana and Cobb are the kind of moves that would have been great in 2014. The Bucs need a first baseman right now, John Jaso notwithstanding, and Pujols is a Clemente-like figure who would be welcomed in Pittsburgh, even at this stage of his career. It isn’t everyday where you get a discount on one of the best players in baseball. Dodgers first baseman/outfielder Cody Bellinger and Angels outfielder Mike Trout were named the Most Valuable Players of their respective leagues, … For what it's worth, The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal reports Cleveland is not interested in trading Ramirez, which makes sense. That's assuming Pujols even sticks around to play out the entire contract. It's true. Earlier this month, the Colorado Rockies finalized their trade sending franchise icon Nolan Arenado to the St. Louis Cardinals in what amounts to a salary dump. Andrew Friedman loves to swing convoluted multi-team deals (#CheckThis), and if you turn Albert from a $25 to $30 million player in the final years of his contract to, say, a $6 million or $8 million player for those seasons, as Ricky Ricardo used to say, "you might just got something there." The trade market for the best player on the planet may not be as robust as you'd expect. The son of Brooklyn parents, I was born in what is now the Scientology Building on Sunset Blvd., a Puig’s-throw from Dodger Stadium. But if they want him, they have options unavailable to most clubs. Barring a career-altering injury to Gonzalez, the Dodgers don't have a position for Pujols, but with Los Angeles picking up most of the tab, another club could. The point is, if you want Mike Trout, you might need to throw in a little creativity with those much-desired prospects. at Now, a Trout trade between the two L.A. teams would take significant nerve and patience on both sides to pull off, but the Angels could certainly deepen their roster and reload with an eye toward the 2018 free-agent class, … FanGraphs projections have them as a bottom-two team at every position except right field (Charlie Blackmon), shortstop (Trevor Story), and the rotation (sixth worst). But so do the Reds. Without him, forget it. Reunites with Francis Marquez, who repped the young hitter in 2017 and 2018. "I'll have your prospects too, thank you very much, but show me the money.". HR11. (Players listed in alphabetical order). Bridich's public statements only added fuel to the fire. The Yankees don't have much playing time to offer and his rookie season was too good to accept role player status at age 26. So naturally the question arises: What does it take to trade away Mike Trout? The Dodgers can sweeten the pot, certainly, and are uniquely in position to do so. For the last seven years, the future Hall of Famer — and likely the greatest to ever play the game — has averaged .308/.422/.587. We're saying that if they did request a trade, we'd understand. And it's not like Matt Adams and Brandon Moss are setting any records in St. Louis. It's ugly. The majority of the scuttlebutt focuses on the Dodgers, Red Sox, Rangers, and (gulp) Cubs as possible trade partners because each of those teams has both high-end talent and depth. Angels center fielder Mike Trout celebrates with teammates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run in the first inning against the Dodgers. Andujar, 26 in March, authored a .297/.328/.527 batting line with an American League rookie record tying 47 doubles in 2018, but a shoulder injury limited him to 12 games in 2019, and allowed Gio Urshela to swoop in and take the third base job. Without question, there are other players around baseball who would like to be traded. Point is, the Angels have not been to the postseason in seven years and have not had a winning record in six years, and their offseason to date has been decidedly meh. Cabrera played all the hits. Top prospects, mind you, just not the tip top. Eh. The Orioles could use a little of everything. But it’s not what you’re thinking, however. Each includes the teams you'd expect to go for player like Trout were an opportunity to arise -- and I'm not suggesting it has -- with the usual suspects listed as players the acquiring club would have to cough up to persuade the Angels to bite. Arenado, who signed an eight-year extension worth $260 million in February 2019, had grown frustrated with the team's efforts (or lack thereof) to build a contender around him. In 2021, Trout will earn a base salary of $35,450,000, while carrying a total salary of $37,116,666. You come up short and you're that close, it sucks.". These are fine pieces from prominent publications, and the first two are written seriously. Covering the impact of coronavirus on the sports world. and wanted out, I would not blame him at all. And, similar to Arenado, Trout has every right to be underwhelmed by the club's efforts to build a contender around him. The Angels have played three postseason games during the Mike Trout era, and they were all losses during the 2014 ALDS. Really? They already pulled the Arenado band-aid off, right? Dodgers The Dodgers have put a premium on acquiring top young players through the Draft and internationally, and they have the depth necessary to make a deal for Trout. Escaping the dysfunction and playing for a contender figure to be his top priorities as a free agent. of A. general manager Billy Eppler will extend his fishing net wide, hoping for an accommodating counterpart to plop those guppies down. For the Dodgers, whenever a blockbuster trade rumor has gotten traction over the last 18 months or so, the players expected to be exiting are Corey Seager, Joc Pederson and Julio Urias. Maybe not this year, maybe not even next year, but at some point before he becomes a free agent. New Twins starter Kenta Maeda posted a video on YouTube in which he says that he asked the Dodgers for a trade ... Mike Trout, others react to controversial call in Braves-Phillies game. (The Braves are an oh so obvious trade partner.). His plus-45 defensive runs saved since 2016 are third most among all shortstops, trailing only Andrelton Simmons (plus-93) and Nick Ahmed (plus-71). Also, the Dodgers … Mike Trout’s WAR in 2016 was 10.6, the highest in baseball by a full win over Mookie Betts. Also, Story is sneaky great defensively. ", "I think any person who's involved in the business of baseball understands that there's a large charade that has continued to be played when it comes to controlling assets, meaning players that are young, and productive," Cabrera said. This isn't about trading Seager, Pederson, Urias and a bunch of Great Lakes Loons for one Mike Trout -- and it hasn't been suggested elsewhere. First and foremost, Trout has a full no-trade clause, so he is in complete control of his situation. The Halos have not had a winning record since 2015, and what have they done to reinforce the pitching the last few years? COL • SS • 27. What is clear is he would be best served in another organization. RBI 28. In 2021? Zach Wheeler – San Francisco Giants. There's already buzz about Mike Trout possibly joining Bryce Harper in 2021. Other than Mike Trout, Dodgers have a field day against Angels ... A funny thing happened on the way to the first regular-season game between the Dodgers and Angels in 2015: They made a trade. Urshela is a superior defender and has hit .310/.358/.523 the last two years, and he is under team control through 2023, so he's not going anywhere. Maybe MLB should make the trade request on Trout's behalf, for the good of the game. But it's not what you're thinking, however. And sure, L.A.A. What ballplayers (Mike Trout and Justin Turner) have to say on this obviously enormously impactful scandal is very newsworthy. He wanted to move on. I'm a Los Angeles-based news and sports writer with a focus on baseball. To be fair, the Rockies never gave Arenado an Anthony Rendon, but I refer you back to that list of pitchers the Angels acquired the last few winters. Yankees third baseman Miguel Andujar is no stranger to the trade rumor circuit. 6-keys: media/spln/mlb/reg/free/stories. For a little context, NL MVP Kris Bryant’s WAR was 7.7. If the Angels are getting Tim Lincecum, there's no need for Mike Trout in Anaheim now, right? "It's clear that it's highly beneficial for baseball teams to control high quality assets for as long as possible.". Yu Darvish came to L.A. at the 2017 trade deadline, before the club made and lost in the World Series. He'll be a free agent in the fall. BA.289. on your team without having to give him the biggest contract in … We got to get to the playoffs," Trout told reporters, including Maria Torres of the Los Angeles Times, after the team was elimination from the postseason race last September. Does the agent change indicate Andujar would like to remain with the Yankees? Last year Andujar went back and forth between MLB and the alternate site, and his agent was none too pleased. The AL West is winnable, and that's Anaheim's plan? "The biggest thing is getting to the playoffs. The Reds badly need a shortstop. Trading him now would be the best thing for Story and the Rockies. Colorado received five players, none of them cornerstone types, but they did unload approximately $150 million in future salary obligation. Nearly all the clubs that needed a shortstop this offseason have already added a shortstop, though Story is so good that I reckon more than a few teams would happily bring him aboard and figure out how the pieces fit later. But is that true? And one Albert passing through town. They signed one (1) major-league free agent during the 2019-20 offseason (Jose Mujica, who allowed seven runs in 4 1/3 innings in 2020) and opened the 2020-21 offseason by telling fans they were going to cut payroll. The mother of all "I'd understand if he requested a trade" players. That's about $150 million come this year's All-Star break, if you're scoring. But it's not what you're thinking, however. Please check the opt-in box to acknowledge that you would like to subscribe. Trout turns 30 in August and chances are we are closer to the end of his reign as the best player in baseball than the beginning, and that should scare the heck out of the Angels. But Eppler doesn't mind the till. But maybe, instead of Urias, the Angels accept multiple highly-rated minor leaguers from L.A.'s treasure chest. You guys see it. So far, the indication from the Colorado Rockies is that they're not willing to discuss shortstop Trevor Story in any trade proposals. 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