Blue Jays trade proposal would dump Bo Bichette to surging AL rival | rssama.com

This full play for nan Toronto Blue Jays, it feels for illustration nan vultures person been circling/

A fewer years ago, nan Blue Jays were thought to person 1 of Major League Baseball's astir breathtaking young cores. That halfway has netted them 2 playoff appearances pinch zero wins, and now nan model looks arsenic though it's begun to close.

Thankfully, nan Blue Jays locked up Vladimir Guerrero Jr. And astatine 3 games complete .500, they've managed to enactment afloat contempt immoderate head-scratching performances connected some sides of nan ball. But shortstop Bo Bichette is nan biggest mobility mark. 

Because Bichette is headed to free agency aft nan season, Toronto has to determine whether to widen him, waste and acquisition him, aliases fto him locomotion for nothing. Keeping him astatine nan apical of nan bid is simply a privilege arsenic agelong arsenic nan squad believes it tin make nan playoffs, but for really agelong will that last?

Meanwhile, connected Wednesday, Bailey Bassett of ClutchPoints suggested that nan Blue Jays could unload Bichette to nan Detroit Tigers, who ain nan champion grounds successful MLB, for prospects Thayron Liranzo and Cris Rodriguez.

"With five top-100 prospects, nan Tigers person 1 of the best workplace systems successful baseball, so they person prospects to spare. Because Bichette is simply a rental, nan squad would only person to nonstop 1 of their apical 100 prospects, though," Bassett wrote.

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"Detroit needs to spell each in. Although they've been up of nan battalion for nan entirety of this season, nan different powerhouse organizations are coming for them. The Tigers should make aggregate trades, and a move for Bichette is 1 of them that makes sense."

Liranzo mightiness beryllium nan catcher of nan early if he came to Toronto, and Rodriguez, who is only 17, is an immensely talented outfield prospect. But neither brings nan Blue Jays person to winning successful 2025, which is still nan stated goal.

The conjecture present is that nan Blue Jays would person to dip five-plus games retired of nan chaotic paper pursuit by nan waste and acquisition deadline to see dealing Bichette. But arsenic we saw past season, that's good wrong nan realm of possibility.

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