By this time next year, New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner has transformed hatred into a lover, the former MLB general manager predicts.
Former New York Mets GM Steve Phillips foresees Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the first baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays heading into the next offseason, as the next big addition to the Bronx. Masu.
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“I think he’s going to be a Yankee,” Phillips said on Wednesday on MLB Network Radio. “I think (Paul) Goldschmidt will come out in a year. (Pete) Alonso will not opt out, and Vladi will become a yankee. They’re going to give him (Juan) soto’s money. Final In fact, instead of Soto and the judge, they will have Judge Vladdy and (Aaron) in the middle of the lineup. They will ultimately end up with less money, and they will eventually move forward. It’s going to be a great team to do. They’ll be the best in the American League for years. I think Vladdy is a yankee moving forward.”
Just as before outfielder Juan Soto signed the Mets for up to $855 million this offseason, Guerrero was the center of rumours for the rest of the season until he signed a new contract. The 25-year-old reached his voluntary spring training deadline for extensions without a deal with Toronto.
Phillips predicts that Alonso will not opt out after the first year of his two-year, $54 million contract with the Mets, clogging the base for another season, making it less likely that Guerrero will be there It’s become.
Four-time All-Star and Hall of Fame son Guerrero, even if he’s softened recently, hasn’t been shy about his unkind feelings about the Yankees.
Guerrero first admitted his hatred in an interview in the 2022 offseason with Spanish baseball writer Hector Gomez, saying, “I like playing in New York. I like killing the Yankees. I never signed with the Yankees. He doubled in 2023. “As I said before, it’s personal. This goes back to my family, I’m more about anything more than that. I’m not going to talk about it. And what happened in the past. So we’re going to leave it as is.”
However, in 2024 he expressed a little less vitreous to the Yankees.
“Sometimes say things. I’m not trying to get back what I said about the Yankees,” Guerrero told Vir Deportivo via ESPN. “But this is business. I sat down and talked to my father (Vladimir Guerrero Sr.) and my family. This is business. And I said I would never talk about this topic again, but many of them. someone asked me about it.
“I’m a player, as I say to you, and if the team chose me or they do something, it obviously needs it. “But now, I’m the team this I’m focused on helping me get out of a bad streak.”
Before Alonso re-signed the Mets, Sny reported to the Blue Jays that “(it was)” in January, but ESPN MLB Insider Buster Olney followed up on it with “The Perfect World.” Guerrero.
Guerrero hit .323 last season with .940 OPS (168 OPS+), 30 home runs and 103 RBI. Due to his career, he has 137 OPS+ with .288/.363/.500 lines and 160 home runs in six seasons.
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