{"id":19541,"date":"2024-12-20T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=19541"},"modified":"2024-12-20T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:22:49","slug":"yankees-named-top-contender-for-200-million-all-star-infielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=19541","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Named Top Contender for $200 Million All-Star Infielder"},"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\/11\/GettyImages-2168159416-e1730979448592.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2168159416-e1730979448592.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2168159416-e1730979448592.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2168159416-e1730979448592.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Named Top Contender for $200 Million All-Star Infielder\" width=\"780\" height=\"437\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Houston Astros infielder Alex Bregman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York Yankees lost a heavyweight free agent bout for slugger Juan Soto, but are putting the money they saved toward adding talent across the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Following multiple meaningful additions over the past several days, New York is now part of the conversation for third baseman Alex Bregman, most recently of the Houston Astros, who is widely considered the best position player still available on the free agent market.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Passan of ESPN on Thursday, December 19, laid out the contract that the 30-year-old Bregman is likely to land, as well as how he could make sense with a handful of big market teams that still have cash to burn as the calendar creeps toward a new year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBregman\u2019s payday could be in the $200 million range as well. [His market remains] strong because a number of teams still have big money to spend,\u201d Passan wrote. \u201cThe [Toronto] Blue Jays need a third baseman. Ditto the [Boston] Red Sox. The Yankees could move Jazz Chisholm Jr. from third to second base, and the [New York] Mets could make a similar infield shuffle with Mark Vientos shifting to first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bregman is a two-time All-Star (2018, 2019) and a two-time World Series champion (2017, 2022), accolades he has amassed over a nine-year MLB career. The infielder also earned Gold Glove honors last season.<\/p>\n<p>His career batting average is .272, complemented by an on-base percentage of .366 and a .483 slugging percentage, per Baseball Reference.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Boston Red Sox May Have Inside Track on Signing Alex Bregman<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5220692\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2176218979-e1734125801429.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Yankees Named Top Contender for $200 Million All-Star Infielder\" width=\"782\" height=\"439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5220692\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5220692\">GettyInfielder Alex Bregman of the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Among the other candidates that have enough money to pay for Bregman\u2019s services are the Astros, the only team for which he has played as a professional, as well the San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles and Detroit Tigers. Though, the group of four teams Passan mentioned more prominently, which includes the Yankees, all have more call to pursue Bregman and his specific skill set.<\/p>\n<p>However, based on a report Thursday from Jon Morosi of MLB Network, it is another team within Passan\u2019s initial group of four that has the inside track to land Bregman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the landscape of potential fits for Bregman, Boston \u2026 is a fit at second base or third, depending on how the infield is arranged,\u201d Morosi said. \u201cI\u2019m getting the sense that the Red Sox are more of a possibility than the New York Yankees at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Yankees Could Lose 2 Top Free Agent Targets to 2 Top Rivals<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5221144\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg 960w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?resize=150,84 150w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?resize=782,440 782w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?resize=780,439 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?resize=425,239 425w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?resize=660,371 660w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?resize=267,150 267w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Juan-Soto-Brutal-Message-Yankee-Fans.jpg?resize=225,127 225w\" alt=\"Yankees Named Top Contender for $200 Million All-Star Infielder\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5221144\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5221144\">GettySlugger Juan Soto of the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That may be a tough pill for Yankees fans to swallow after Soto crossed town to join the Mets for a historic contract just over one week ago.<\/p>\n<p>New York used to get just about every free agent it wanted, but in this offseason at least, some of the Yankees\u2019 biggest rivals have broken the bank to steal away top stars clearly on the franchise\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the Yankees haven\u2019t been quiet in free agency. The team signed All-Star starting pitcher Max Fried to an eight-year, $218 million deal in free agency and traded with the Chicago Cubs for 2019 National League MVP Cody Bellinger.<\/p>\n<p>Max Dible covers the NFL, NBA and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group&#8217;s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy. 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