Bo Bichette’s Price Tag JUMPS & Jays Face MAJOR Competition To Sign Him! (Blue Jays News)

Bo Bichette’s Price Tag JUMPS & Jays Face MAJOR Competition To Sign Him! (Blue Jays News)

Hello everybody and welcome back to Blue Jays today coming to you from the sports interaction studio where we always got something to say about the Toronto Blue Jays. I’m your host Adam Pedal and I’m your host Nicholas Play and in this one we’re going to be talking about the latest rumbling surrounding Bob Bashette. his market right now. It’s really starting to take shape and there is a lot of competition that’s gunning after him, which of course is inevitably going to raise his price tag. We’re going to talk about the Jay’s chances. We’re going to talk about how they should navigate this whole thing and then if they don’t end up bringing back Bob Bashette, what is that going to mean and how are they going to continue to be a competitive ball team and concoct this roster in the best way possible to make it back to the World Series. If you haven’t already done so, hit that like, smash that subscribe button, and if you have the option to hit that like button if you’re enjoying all of this Blue Jays offseason coverage. Let’s immediately get into the competition. Okay, this was recently reported by former GM Steve Phillips and he’s saying that right now nine teams are in the mix for Bob Bashette. Those teams are the Red Sox, the Tigers, the Royals, the Mariners, Phillies, Mets, Braves, Dodgers, and Giants. And of course he doesn’t name it right there, but it’s the Toronto Blue Jays. So anyone who’s anyone is in on Bobette right now. Yeah. And you don’t need me to tell you. Obviously Bob Bashett’s a great player. He’s got one of the best bats in all of baseball. And if you do, if you’re a big back guy and a swing mechanic guy, then you would say he is the best bat in all of baseball. The way he can cover any part of the plate and put the ball uh barrel to the ball. Now, the big thing with Bob Bashette that might have scared off a lot of teams is the fact that this guy will can’t play defense. I mean, he could play shortstop, but compared to other shorts stops around the league and other teams that have shorts stops, you’re probably not prioritizing shortstop, the defensive shorts stop of Boba over the current shorts stops you have. But it hasn’t scared off a lot of teams. Jeff Pass came out here and confirmed it, but teams haven’t been scared off of Boba shortstop. So, what does that mean? Well, there’s a few things you got to factor in right there. You know, there if you’re getting a guy to come in to be your shortstop, you’re going to pay him as a shortstop. Well, not only with the great bat, you’re paying him for the great bat, but you’re playing him to be a shortstop, right? And very different from second base. If you’re coming in for second base, you’re not expected to do much defensively, but a short stop’s a commanding position. So, what does that mean for the contract? Might be up there that where the Blue Jays were thinking that high 100 million, maybe even the low 200 million for a shortstop with a great bat like Bobette. Yeah, exactly. And I mean you even had Mark Feinstein come out and suggest or sorry not Mark Fe it was it was Steve Phillips as well but suggesting that that in fact it might even be $250 million which is not really a number that we’ve been necessarily thinking about when we consider Bo Bashette but at the end of the day you know you were bringing him up and I mean any given heavy year or any giving healthy year excuse me he could hit for 200 hits right so like he does have one of the best bats in all of baseball and if there’s other squads out there you I I mean like you name any of them, right? There’s so many different teams like the Red Sox, you know, like somebody else who is starting to push the narrative a little bit here and saying, “Hey, we want them at shortstop.” Well, if you’re the Toronto Blue Jays, like, you know, you can’t just come in here and say, “Well, we want you at second base, so we we’re going to pick 100 million less.” No, you’re going to have to match that price tag even if you only want them at second base. That starts to beg the question, well, is 250 million too much for a guy who would, you know, honestly at that point, like sure, he’d play second base for you, but you’re basically just paying for the bat at that point. Does that start to outpric you when it comes to the Bobaet conversation? Like, there’s a lot of things to consider here cuz yeah, you got to consider if the price tag is getting up to 250 million like uh like Steve Phillips saying, you know, it’ be a 10-year deal. And if you’re looking at Bob Bashett right now as a 27y old will be 28 going into next year. Okay. Well, now you have a guy going to his age 37 season right at the end of his contract assuming he signs the 10-year deal. You know what is he going to have left in him? Well, you can assume a couple things, right? You got to assume the legs are going to be gone. They’re already gone. Like the legs are already starting to be gone for Boba. The defense, you know, doesn’t really deteriorate for a lot of guys, but it doesn’t really matter for Boba. You just got to hope that the bat’s still there. contact ability, which usually is there usually after a longer uh career. The power still is usually there. Um I mean Bobett’s power is kind of mediocre as well. But look, I mean I think his contract is going to age well. So if you’re the Blue Jays, you got to ask yourself, are you willing to take on a 10-year deal for a guy to play with Vladimir Guerrero Jr.? Now I think he would be open later on in his career if he really doesn’t have his legs under him to move over to second base or even a DH position, right? Like I think there’s still flexibility there. You don’t marry him. Well, I I think that look I I think that regardless of what happens, I think that Bobette, if he comes back to the Toronto Blue Jays, is going to be playing second base. And I just think that that’s again, you’re you’re paying too much money for Andre Simenez and the one thing that that guy provides is the defense, right? So, it’s like you’re not gonna you’re not just going to throw that money at the window unless you decided to, you know, somehow trade Andre Simenez or something like that. Like I think that the Toronto Blue Jays, they would have to come to terms with paying Bobette the money as a shortstop playing him at second base. And that’s something where I don’t know if they’re going to have a disconnect. And that’s right. The question for Boba is what do you prioritize? I know that he’s prioritized, you know, staying with one team, playing with Vlatty, playing on a winning team. But does he prioritize playing shorts stop? You know what I mean? Is he willing to punt that away? Because yeah, I think the Blue Jays would pay him shortstop money to play second base. But if he’s like, you know what, I actually just really want to play shortstop, you know, and that’s things that we’re not privy to. We don’t know that, right? Because I mean, let’s let’s face it, the the way to win the ball game better, you play him at second base or not even on the field at all at DH, right? That’s how you win ball games. We saw it happen almost happen in the World Series. And I do want to be very clear, whilst there are teams right now that are looking at him at that short stop position, it hasn’t been shying the way, that’s not every single team, okay? They bring up the New York Mets in there. Well, the New York Mets have Francisco Lindor and they’re not about to even if they were to go and get Bobaed, they’re not about to move Frankie Lindor, who’s a gold glover every I mean, at the end of the day, sorry, there’s a pecking order here right now. So, it’s not every single team, but a team like the Detroit Tigers, for instance, who are they married to over there? They could easily put Bobette there should they decide to do so. So there are certainly going to be squads in the mix right now, competitive teams as well, playoff teams that are still looking at Bobette as that shortstop position. And the fact of the matter is he might leave the board sooner rather than later. This is from Mark Feinstein and this was reported very recently after the Josh Naylor signing. He came in and he was saying he believes the two guys most likely to leave the board next are Kyle, not Tucker, Schwarber and also Bob Bashette. And and I fully agree with his reasoning. Kyle Tucker could like he could leave at any time, but he could also be on the board for a long period of time because you are talking about a big big contract right there. But Kyle Schwarber and Bob Bashette, I mean, they might get the deal that they’re looking for because there’s a lot of teams in the mix right here. It’s not going to it’s going to break the bank, but it’s also not going to break the bank either to bring one of them in. they could get a deal. You know, let’s just say the Phillies decide to go balls to the wall here and offer uh you know, Bo Bashette his $220 million. He might just say that he’s going to accept that right away. And that’s kind of what Mark Fonson’s saying is that either one of those individuals could leave the board pretty soon. And I think a bigger part of that too as well is Josh wanted to sign back with the Mariners, right? That’s why he signed so early. He wanted to be a Mariner and he signed back and actually took a very teamfriendly deal to be with the Mariners. I thought he could have got a lot more money, but he said, “You know what? I just want to get this done and over with. I want to be a Mariner, and I’m going to be a Mariner.” So, if Bo Bashette wanted had that same mentality, theoretically, he could sign earlier. But, I do believe that he made it to free agency for a reason, and we’re seeing all this competition for him out there. I think he’s going to take a little bit more time to go and play that market, whereas Kyle Schwarber, maybe a little bit differently. There might be some teams definitely interested in Kyle Schwarber, but Kyle Schwarber’s at the end of his career. You know, he’s already had a few paydays in his past. Maybe he just wants to go back and play for the Phillies and accept whatever deal they give me. And Philly has got a lot of money they could offer to him. So I think like he could leave the board early, but Boba, I got a feeling will probably take a little bit longer based on how many eyeballs are looking at him. Sure. And I guess you know to that point as well, right now that you do have so much of a variation in market value from so many different teams and how they’re looking at you and where you’re going to play and what you’re going to do for this squad and the money’s different. like there is a lot to consider with Bo. Either way, that’s what Mark Feinson’s thinking. I’m kind of hoping that I mean, if he did come off the board immediately, that would probably mean that the Jays are are winning that thing. Um, but with all of the the reports that are coming out right now, it honest like it feels like Toronto, funnily enough, it feels like Toronto actually has a better chance or is talked about more right now with Kyle Tucker than they are with Bo Bashette. Yeah. And I guess I don’t know what it really I think it’s just whatever is kind of being leaked out into the rumor mill right now cuz I there’s probably a lot going on behind the scenes with Bob Baette that we’re just not not knowing whereas Kyle Tucker is the sexy you know he’s the bill of the ball right now. Everyone wants to know where Kyle Tucker is going uh in this free agency. And yeah, Kyle Tucker with the Blue Jays to your point, like that’s all we’re hearing is like, “Oh, Blue Jays, Kyle Tucker, they’re the favorites.” And that came out from Jeff Pass again that the Blue Jays are favorites for Kyle Tucker still. He does believe that the Blue Jays after a World Series run would be going after Kyle Tucker. And and I’m going to just clarify that just a little bit. I’m taking the S off of favorites. He said the favorite. Yeah, the favorite. you know, it’s like there like, you know, cuz there’s a difference when it’s like, oh, we’re one of the favorites or we are the favorite and that’s apparently how he’s referring to it right now or MLB GM’s executives are. So, yeah, it’s interesting to note that it’s like, well, even though I still think there’s a better chance that we get Bob Bashette back, we’re being talked about more with Kyle Tucker. Exciting, also a little scary and nerve-wracking, too. Yeah. I mean, again, like we don’t exactly know what’s going on with the market, right? Like again, like I said, like there could be a lot of things going behind the scenes, but it begs the question yet again, we brought it up on this channel, like if you can only sign one of these players, who are you signing? Is it Tucker or is it Bo Bashette? Everyone in the comments, I’ve seen a lot of people discuss this online. The people who are leaning on Bo Bashette, and I I completely hear where you’re coming from, it’s more of like a we got to get this guy back for the Bow and Vlad camaraderie, right? It’s like we got to get the homegrown talent back. Absolutely awesome. Whereas the people leaning on Kyle Tucker, it’s like no-brainer duh. Kyle Tucker is a beast and he is a 52 player whereas Bobette is not a 52 player. They’re roughly the same age, but Kyle Tucker could win an MVP any given year. So obviously if you’re looking at that and you’re forgetting about the camaraderie, you go Kyle Tucker. But there is an element of we watch this team gel so well, go to the World Series. Do we really want to disrupt that and not bring Bob Bashette back if we can only pick one or the other? Yeah, I think it’s it’s a really good debate actually and it’s tough to know. Like this is one of those ones where hindsight’s going to be crucial and uh and that’s probably the only way of really knowing, right? Because I do think that there is so many different ways of looking at this. And then also that’s not even factoring in the money where it’s like Kyle Tucker should be getting paid more than Bob. Granted, now if Boba’s price tag is going to be in the 250 million range, I mean what’s an extra 150, right? Like we are talking crazy money regardless. I tend to land on the Kyle Tucker side of things in that debate. And that’s not me saying that I don’t want Bobaet. I would be eccentrically over the moon if they were to bring back Bobette. And I still I agree with a lot of the arguments that people are making with the camaraderie, with the fact that he’s jailed with this team that, you know, I I totally agree with you as well. He’s an incredible hitter. Um, but I do think from a roster makeup standpoint as well, like, you know, they have Andre Simenez there at shortstop. You know, we got Ernie Clement in this mix as well. He’s been awesome. Barers in this mix. He’s been awesome in the infield. And then the truth of the matter is um Kyle Tucker is just a more complete baseball player. And and I think that he is going to be a better baseball player for the remainder of his career than Bobette is going to be a baseball player. So, when you have an option to sign somebody who I do truly believe is going to get MVP votes on effectively every single healthy year, that being Kyle Tucker, I think that you just have to shoot that shot. I would not at all be upset though if Bob Bashette comes back and uh and they just run it back with what they had. Of course not. Right. I mean, you you brought it up right here. Any given year, a healthy year, he is literally an MVP. He did not get MVP votes this year, which is kind of wild. I know. I was I was kind of wildly shocked at that as well. And then the year prior, I mean, he was insane, but he got hurt for half the year. So, funnily enough, he he didn’t get MVP votes this year, which I was kind of surprised at. Now, a lot of people are saying, “Well, why not both?” Now, I do want to zoom out a little bit. If the Toronto Blue Jays manage to get back Bob Bashette and also sign Kyle Tucker, everyone would be looking at Blue Jays like, “Holy this is this is one of the greatest offseasons we’ve ever seen.” Like, getting both of those dudes back. And you probably got to assume the Blue Jays aren’t just going to skimp out on the starting pitching, too. If they’re going to get both those guys, you might as well go get like a Ranger Suarez type, you know, go get a a top of the rotation type of guy. If that happens, yeah, we’re looking at what the Mets did back I mean last few years or the Dodgers. I mean, I remember that offseason. I forget who they all brought in, but that offseason where the Dodgers got Yamamoto and then they also brought in like I think that they also signed I forget if it was Blake Snell that offse they did something ridiculous where it was just like Tyler Glasnau. trade for Telegram. So much money. Like it was just crazy bald and that was after they brought in Otani the year prior. So I mean that would be LA Dodgers levels of crazy. I’m not going to talk myself into thinking that that that’s actually going to happen. It did come out from Bob Nightingale that there is a possibility there is a world where both of them could come here and they are in the conversations with both of them. So who knows, right? Like get a couple beers and the boys and both like it. Let’s go win a World Series. is you get Kyle Tucker all signed for short term and we’ll make this magic happen. Likely scenario though is that one of them is not going to be a Toronto Blue Jay and we’re just hoping that one of them is going to be a Toronto Blue Jay. We are the favorite to sign Kyle Tucker. Bobette, whilst I still also believe us to be the favorite, there’s a lot of competition there. And now that you know he’s in free agency, he doesn’t have any any ties or he doesn’t have any uh obligations to us. You know what I mean? like he doesn’t have to come back here. There’s so many other squads. Well, I will say though, I think we I said this before, we do have I believe the tiebreaker for many of the reasons like I brought up earlier. He wants to stay with one team his entire career. He wants to win a World Series of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and he wants to win on a winning ball team. Well, the only other winning ball team that’s more winning than the Blue Jays is the Dodgers. And I think they’re kind of full over there. And I mean, I’d be shocked if he went over to the Dodgers. That’s not even one of the teams that he mentioned. I don’t believe we could bring it up again. I I thought I always thought that the Dodgers would be in on these conversations just because that is you know Yeah. Oh yeah, they are in on them. But I I just I man like I they can’t do it again. But regardless, you know, like those are the elements that he wants. The Dodgers can’t provide Vlatty and they can’t provide staying on one team his whole career. So if Bob is a man of his word to the media, the Blue Jays got the favorites right now. Yes. Unless they can provide the shortstop position, which the Toronto Blue Jays, whilst there are some teams that are interested in it, maybe they’re not. And and you never know. the Blue Jays. I mean, you know, Ross Atkins and the boys, like they might just give it to him. They just they might just give it to him, which I would think would be a mistake, but uh that’s a that’s another podcast right there. But folks, let us know your thoughts about all this in the comments down below. That is the latest right now on the Bob Bashette market. Toronto Blue Jays obviously in the mix, but favorite for Kyle Tucker. And you know, God only knows with all of these teams what could happen. If you haven’t already done so, hit that like, smash that subscribe button, hit the hype button as well. $4 a month become a YouTube member. Thank you to all of our current YouTube members. You guys are amazing. Guys, thank you so much for watching and as always, go Jay Go.

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