Giants And Cardinals Showing Interest In Marlins’ Giancarlo Stanton
It is no secret that one of the biggest names on the trading block this off-season is Giancarlo Stanton. The slugging right-fielder hit 59 home runs, brought in 132 runs, and put up a slash line of .281/.376/.631. He was also named the National League MVP, beating out Joey Votto and Paul Goldschmidt. So his value is definitely there, however it comes at a pretty scary price.
Giancarlo Stanton is potentially owed $295 million over the next ten seasons, meaning a team could have him till he is in his late thirties. That is a huge number, and not many teams have the means to take on all of that money and invest it into one player. The Dodgers have been thrown around as a team that is interested, but it seems like the Giants and Cardinals are currently winning the race.
According to Jon Morosi of MLB Network, the Cardinals made a formal trade offer to the Marlins. Craig Mish of SiruisXM later added that the offer included prospects, one of which is Sandy Alcantara.
Alcantara is 22 years old and is number nine on the Cardinals’ top 30 prospects list. In 2017, he pitched for the Cardinals double-A affiliate and put up a 4.31 ERA and a 1.428 WHIP in 125.1 innings (22 starts). He also made his Major League debut on September 3rd of this year and ended up getting 8.1 innings of work as a reliever. In those 8.1 innings, Alcantara gave up six runs on nine hits, two of which were home runs. His stats might not be all that impressive, but he is capable of throwing over 100 MPH.
As for the Giants, it is not known whether a formal trade offer has been extended just yet. However, Craig Mish reported that the names below are being discussed:
- Giants: 2B Joe Panik, P Tyler Beede, OF Chris Shaw
- Marlins: OF Giancarlo Stanton, 2B Dee Gordon
According to MLB.com, Chris Shaw is second and Tyler Beede is third on the Giants’ top 30 prospects list. In 2017 between double-A and triple-A, Shaw put up a slash line of .292/.346/.525, with 24 home runs and 79 runs batted in. Beede spent all of 2017 in triple-A and put up a 4.79 ERA and a 1.468 WHIP in 109 innings (19 starts).
Also important to note is that MLB teams believe that $295 million for ten years is what Stanton would get on the open market. This means that if the Marlins want high-level prospects, then they’d likely have to include cash. With the Giants and Cardinals throwing around these top prospects, maybe that is something that the Marlins are interested in doing.
Dodgers’ Joc Pederson Leads USC Football Team Out Of Tunnel
I think the Dodgers can make a great trade package. they have major league ready players such as Toles, and Verdugo is a is a prospect that if we Landed Stanton there be no room for him with all the other outfielders that Dodgers have. They .can also add Beaz he hits a hundred on the raodar gun ,or close to it , and he’s a Major Leaguer already ,Don Mattingly knows him, and the LA fans are fed up with him.
I think the Dodgers have more pieces than anybody else we have starting pitchers that we can spare , like McCarthy Stewart or Ryu, we have prmospects that could be made available, we have major league ready players ,and the Dodgers have major league players on the roster ,they can trade for him, players like: Grandal, Culberson Segedin,Pederson, we could maybe trade Gonzalez if they want arms there’s Fields,Paderes, Ravin, prospects like Dixion, Font, or Lacastro, and those are the pieces just off the top of my head, that I think we could trade of course not all of them but we can formulate a package I think better than anybody else in the MLB I mean we have a complete 25-man roster of spare parts that we can make available. So your a Poet lol
I don’t want to see the Giants get Stanton.