{"id":336447,"date":"2025-12-08T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336447\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:32:08","slug":"giants-could-make-bryce-eldridge-available-in-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336447\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Could Make Bryce Eldridge Available In Trade Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

10:33PM: The Mariners and Red Sox are two teams known to have interest in Eldridge, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> writes.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t known if Seattle\u2019s interest has continued now that Josh Naylor has re-signed and locked up the first base position for the next five years, though the M\u2019s could conceivably use Naylor and Eldridge in the same first base\/DH mixture that the Giants currently have planned for Devers and Eldridge.<\/p>\n

1:59PM: Top prospect Bryce Eldridge<\/a> made his big league debut with the Giants in 2025, and while that cup of coffee in the majors last just ten games with lackluster results he still figures to be a major part of the San Francisco offense next with with the roster as presently constructed. Even with Eldridge\u2019s on-paper importance to the future of the lineup, however, Shayna Rubin of the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> reported earlier today that Eldridge \u201cisn\u2019t off the table\u201d in trade talks as the front office heads into this year\u2019s Winter Meetings.<\/p>\n

That, of course, doesn\u2019t necessarily make a trade of Eldridge particularly likely. It\u2019s somewhat rare for players and prospects to be completely unavailable in trade talks as the majority of modern front offices have developed a willingness to listen on virtually any player. With that being said, it\u2019s not often that a prospect with Eldridge\u2019s pedigree winds up moving. The 21-year-old was San Francisco\u2019s first-round pick in the 2023 draft and is a consensus top-20 prospect in the entire sport at this point. The slugger crushed 25 homers in just 102 games between Double- and Triple-A this year while hitting .260\/.333\/.510 overall across both levels. Few up-and-coming youngsters possess the raw power potential of Eldridge, who is listed at 6\u20197\u201d and 240 pounds.<\/p>\n

Virtually any team would be naturally intrigued at the idea of adding him to the middle of their lineup, and that should include the Giants. With that being said, Eldridge isn\u2019t without his flaws. He struck out at a 30.8% clip at the Triple-A level this past year, raising concerns about his ability to make consistent contact against MLB-caliber pitching. Even aside from those concerns, however, it\u2019s worth remember that the Giants\u2019 midsummer trade for Rafael Devers<\/a> gave them their first baseman of the future for the better part of the next decade. It would certainly be possible for the Giants to squeeze Eldridge into their lineup, doing so would substantially limit the club\u2019s flexibility by locking down both first base and DH long-term.<\/p>\n

The combination of Eldridge\u2019s imperfect fit with the Giants\u2019 roster after they brought in Devers as well as the team\u2019s noted desire<\/a> to avoid longer-term contracts this winter when looking to upgrade their pitching staff have made Eldridge a logical trade candidate. Even so, the argument for simply keeping an extremely gifted slugger whose service time clock has barely been started is certainly a strong one. 51% of respondents to a poll of MLBTR readers<\/a> earlier this week believed that the Giants should hold onto Eldridge, and just 23% of respondents believed that the Giants should consider trading him without bringing in another impactful bat to make up for his absence from the 2026 lineup.<\/p>\n

Of course, an acknowledgment that trading Eldridge isn\u2019t entirely off the table remains far from the same as actively shopping him. It\u2019s entirely possible that the Giants would only consider including Eldridge in a deal for a high-end player like Hunter Greene<\/a> or Tarik Skubal<\/a> who may not be entirely available in trade talks themselves. Rubin noted that while players of that caliber have been floated as potentially available, the specifics of this winter\u2019s market are not yet set in stone. That too goes for the Giants\u2019 level of involvement, per Rubin, which would lend credence to the idea that the Giants might only consider dealing Eldridge for certain impact players.<\/p>\n

With that said, there\u2019s a number of enticing trade candidates that have been bandied about this winter, even with players like Joe Ryan<\/a> and Pablo Lopez<\/a> likely to be off the market. Edward Cabrera<\/a>, MacKenzie Gore<\/a>, Freddy Peralta<\/a>, Kodai Senga<\/a>, and Mitch Keller<\/a> are all on the list of names that could at least theoretically be had on the trade market this winter. While the Giants surely wouldn\u2019t be interested in parting ways with Eldridge for many of those players it\u2019s far from impossible to see a team with a controllable, cost-controlled starter like Cabrera or Gore being able to convince the Giants to part with Eldridge in order to add another high-end arm to a rotation that already includes Logan Webb<\/a> and Robbie Ray<\/a> but is in major need of reinforcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10:33PM: The Mariners and Red Sox are two teams known to have interest in Eldridge, Susan Slusser of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[105065,363,99],"class_list":["post-336447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-bryce-eldridge","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}