[Feinsand] The Padres exploring a Jake Cronenworth trade. San Diego has received multiple hits on Jake Cronenworth from other clubs.

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  2. Cronenworth, who remains a poor offensive fit at first base, will receive a $7 million salary in 2024, the first year of a seven-year, $80 million extension. Moving Cronenworth’s $11.4 million average annual value would help in another way; San Diego, now carrying an estimated luxury tax figure of $209 million, would prefer to end next season below the $237 million tax threshold.

    A couple of complications: Trading Cronenworth after a career-worst season might require attaching money or prospect capital, and Cronenworth’s extension includes an eight-team no-trade list, which kicked in this offseason. Cronenworth can change his list each year. The destinations he can currently veto are not publicly known.

    – [Lin](https://theathletic.com/5119778/2023/12/07/juan-soto-trade-padres-next-moves/)

  3. Croney tops the list of guys who I love having on the team but would be sort of happy to see moved if it helped free us up a bit.

    Dude is really active in the local community and he would ride his scooter to the game because he lived in the area. (Since the extension, I wouldn’t be surprised if he moved, but I don’t actually know and wouldn’t blow up the guy’s spot if I did.)

    But he’s a solid 2B who was forced to slide over to 1B where he’s a plus glove but a minus bat. I’d be sad but totally understand the case for moving him somewhere that he can be the everyday 2B, which would free us up, too.

  9. I don’t think selling low is the best option, and although the extension was dumb, he does not cost much

  10. Honestly Cooper would be fine taking Crone’s place here. I’m sure there are better options, I’m just going with what I know.

  14. I feel like the mariners may be in the mix. He interesting if anyone is willing to take on his full contract.

    If they will you got to trade him. Once they signed Xander it moved cronenworth off his spot. So now it’s keep cronenworth or Kim. Kim would bring back a lot and is probably the smarter guy to trade but the fans love him so I think the plan is to trade cronenworth then extend Kim. Which makes the majority of fans happy.

  15. Been saying this for a while. The extension was straight dumb and wasn’t worth it. But he’s still a lefty bat that can play 3 positions. He’s also most effective at 2B and a team lookin for a 2B could fix him back to his fringe all star self. Also last year his swing looked terrible, I’d imagine a team with decent hitting coaches could fix it. I don’t think he’ll cost us much prospect capital to trade tbh, especially with how weak this market is.

  16. Well, this just completes my crappy week. Ugh. Sorry, but I love Cronenworth and the morale he adds to the team. I get it, but I hate it.

  21. I don’t understand why this contract was ever given. Jake is a solid player and I’ve enjoyed watching him but he just isn’t the kind of young (he’s not young), high upside, type of player you lock up with a pre-arb contract like this. Super weird decision.

  22. Why do we keep giving players big contracts then trying to move off of them right away? We could’ve had Jake for cheap for the next two years.

  24. I’m 100% on board with this. Still baffled as to why he got extended in the first place. Seems like a nice guy, but definitely not worth the money.

  25. I’d like crone way more if we had extended Kim first. Crone is a fun player but doesn’t really fit on our team right now. I will miss him but it is probably for the best

  26. You just don’t extend fungible players. Kim is not fungible, for example. The payroll management for this team is dreadful.

  27. Jake likely has negative value in a trade so I’d rather just see if he can return to .250 20 homer form. No sense in selling low.

  28. While I love the dude…and he will always be a SD legend for his hit against LA in the playoffs…if we can get a decent return, I’m not opposed to this.

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