Here are three things we\u2019ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world today:<\/p>\n
1. Tucker market accelerating:<\/p>\n
Kyle Tucker<\/a>\u2019s market finally appears to be picking up steam. The Mets have reportedly made a short-term offer with an average annual value as high as $50MM<\/a>, while the Blue Jays have put forth a long-term offer \u2014 the details of which remain unclear. If Tucker is genuinely considering shorter-term offers, the Dodgers will surely be interested as well. Other teams like the Yankees seem to be hanging around the periphery of Tucker\u2019s market, too, although fellow lefty-swinging outfielder Cody Bellinger<\/a> appears to remain the priority over in the Bronx. With some reports suggesting that Tucker could agree to a deal before the end of the week, where will he land?<\/p>\n 2. Cardinals move into post-Arenado era:<\/p>\n The Cardinals finally pulled off their long-awaited trade of likely future Hall of Famer Nolan Arenado<\/a> yesterday, and in shipping him to the Diamondbacks<\/a> (and paying down all but $11MM of his contract to do so) they\u2019ll enter the 2026 season without any of the veteran All-Stars they carried in previous years on their roster. For a rebuilding club like St. Louis, that means an opportunity to give significant run to younger players like Nolan Gorman<\/a>, Thomas Saggese<\/a>, and top prospect JJ Wetherholt<\/a>. The question for the Cardinals at this point is whether (or when) some of the club\u2019s arbitration-eligible players, like infielder\/outfielder Brendan Donovan<\/a> or lefty reliever JoJo Romero<\/a>, will follow Arenado out the door.<\/p>\n 3. What\u2019s next in the Bronx and Miami?:<\/p>\n The Yankees pulled off a surprising trade last night<\/a> when they nabbed hard-throwing lefty Ryan Weathers<\/a> from the Marlins in exchange for four lower-minors prospects led by outfielder Dillon Lewis<\/a>. The deal seemingly brings to a close the Yankees\u2019 pursuit of starting pitching help this offseason. Weathers should fortify the rotation with Gerrit Cole<\/a>,\u00a0Carlos Rodon<\/a> and Clarke Schmidt<\/a> all opening the season on the injured list.<\/p>\n With Weathers now in the fold, perhaps the Yankees can more fully focus on addressing their lineup, whether that\u2019s with a Bellinger reunion, a pivot toward Tucker or Bo Bichette<\/a>, or a pursuit of an unexpected target. As for the Marlins, they were already considering<\/a> adding an innings-eating veteran starter after trading Edward Cabrera<\/a> to the Cubs last week. That only figures to be become more important now that they\u2019ve taken another valuable arm out of their rotation mix. Zack Littell<\/a>, Tyler Anderson<\/a>, Patrick Corbin<\/a>, Jose Quintana<\/a>, Tomoyuki Sugano<\/a> and Chris Paddack<\/a> are among the many yet-unsigned free agent starters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are three things we\u2019ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world today: 1. Tucker market…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-412741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}