{"id":17208,"date":"2024-12-12T01:32:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T01:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=17208"},"modified":"2024-12-12T01:32:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T01:32:58","slug":"yankees-predicted-to-make-shocking-trade-for-426-million-star-after-losing-soto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=17208","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Predicted to Make Shocking Trade for $426 Million Star After Losing Soto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Yankees-Predicted-trade-426-million-star.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Yankees-Predicted-trade-426-million-star.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Yankees-Predicted-trade-426-million-star.jpg?quality=45&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Yankees-Predicted-trade-426-million-star.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Predicted to Make Shocking Trade for $426 Million Star After Losing Soto\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Mike Trout<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York Yankees have a huge hole in their lineup after losing Juan Soto to their crosstown rival Mets, who offered Soto a record-shattering contract that could reach $820 million over 15 years when all is said and done. What do the Bronx Bombers do now, to replace Soto\u2019s production?<\/p>\n<p>According to some reports, the Yankees are looking at Los Angeles Dodgers free agent Teoscar Hernandez. But new, admittedly wild and improbable rumors began floating through baseball circles on Wednesday, involving another superstar hitter from the other Los Angeles team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Yankees are still in ready-to-win mode but now that Juan Soto signed with the Mets the Yankees need another star to pair next to Aaron Judge,\u201d wrote Wrightway Sports Network scribe Matt Shovelson. \u201cThe star that will be traded needs to be Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Trout Trade a \u2018Prediction, Not a Report\u2019 \u2014 So Far<\/h2>\n<p>To his credit, Shovelson was quick to add, \u201cThis is a PREDICTION, not a REPORT!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trout, who was drafted 25th overall by the Angels in 2009 out of Millville Senior High School in Millville, New Jersey, reached the Major Leagues less than two years later and quickly established himself not only as one of the premier players in the game, but possibly one of the greatest ever.<\/p>\n<p>He won the American League Rookie of the Year award in 2012 and has since won MVP honors three times despite playing for a team that has made the postseason only once in Trout\u2019s 14-year career. That was in 2014 when the Angels won the AL West Division only to lose in a sweep in the Division Series to Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Over the first seven years of his career, Trout\u2019s statistics were better than Soto\u2019s in almost every category. Trout hit 235 home runs to Soto\u2019s 201. His OPS of 1.000 topped Soto\u2019s .953. Trout posted a batting average of .310 over those seven seasons to .285 for Soto. And his Wins Above Replacement number came in at 64.1, significantly superior to Soto\u2019s figure of 36.4.<\/p>\n<p>Before the 2019 season, Trout signed a 12-year, $426.5 million contract extension with the Angels. But with six years to go on the deal that would take Trout to age 39, the Angels show no serious signs of making another playoff run.<\/p>\n<p>Though Trout hails from New Jersey and grew up a Yankees fan who idolized the team\u2019s Hall of Fame shortstop Derek Jeter, according to a profile by ESPN, Trout has little desire to play for the Yankees.<\/p>\n<h2>Six Years to Go on Trout\u2019s $37 Million Per Year Contract<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThose who know Trout have noted over the years that there\u2019s a certain comfort that comes with separating his home life in the Northeast from his baseball life in Southern California,\u201d wrote <em>ESPN.com<\/em> columnist Alden Gonzalez earlier this year. \u201cHe seems disinterested in the hoopla that would come with playing for the Yankees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trout missed most of the 2024 season, appearing in only 29 games due to a torn left meniscus in his knee \u2014 the second injury to the same ligament \u2014 but the 11-time All Star said in August that he would be open to switching from centerfield to a corner ourfield role or even to designated hitter, in an effort to stay in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the question of whether the Yankees, who were prepared to pay almost $50 million per year to Soto, would be willing to shell out $37 million for a player with Trout\u2019s injury history. That means, in order to make a trade work, the Angels would need to absorb a portion of Trout\u2019s salary even as he, hypothetically, plays for the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. Vankin is also the author of five nonfiction books on a variety of topics, as well as nine graphic novels including most recently &#8220;Last of the Gladiators&#8221; published by Dynamite Entertainment. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have a huge hole in their lineup after losing Juan Soto to their crosstown rival Mets, who offered Soto a record-shattering contract that could reach $820 million over 15 years when all is said and done. What do the Bronx Bombers do now, to replace Soto\u2019s production? 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