The Cleveland Guardians may be buyers at the MLB trade deadline this year, and one name in particular makes a lot of sense for Cleveland: Toronto SS Bo Bichette.
Could the Guards be serious players in the Bichette trade market and what would you be willing to give up?
It feels as if the end of the Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette era has arrived a year early, doesn’t it? More and more, the dialogue now is whether a front office whose spokesman - general manager Ross Atkins - really thinks this lineup has enough talent… that has left its manager with half a functioning bullpen for a couple of weeks after mistakenly deciding to "run it back"… whether it is up to making the franchise’s biggest calls since the late 1990s. That is what’s at stake. Figuring out what to do with these final 18 months or so of Vladdy and Bo supersedes any other strategic baseball decision this organization has had to make since Roger Clemens or maybe letting Carlos Delgado walk as a free agent without compensation.
And it comes at a time when there has never been less public faith in Atkins and president and chief executive officer Mark Shapiro. The Rogers Centre renos are done. The payroll is at an all-time high of $246 million, according to Spotrac. Attendance has softened… and there’s a whole, great whack of summer TV to be filled by a competitive and entertaining product. This was supposed to be the third glorious Blue Jays epoch: Back-to-back World Series in 1992-93 after years of coming oh so close. The swaggering, bat-flipping, Renaissance Jays of 2015 and 2016… and this. Whatever this was supposed to be. | www.sportsnet....
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