{"id":700630,"date":"2026-01-24T04:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/700630\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:29:15","slug":"giants-pushed-hard-to-land-nationals-cj-abrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/700630\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants pushed hard to land Nationals&#8217; CJ Abrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trade talks centered around CJ Abrams between the Giants and Nationals recently stalled out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6994852\/2026\/01\/23\/sf-giants-cj-abrams-trade-talks-josuar-gonzalez\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mlbtw&amp;source=mlbtw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Athletic\u2019s Andrew Baggarly reported<\/a> Friday that San Francisco made an aggressive push for the All-Star shortstop before negotiations fizzled out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Giants had reportedly \u201csignaled their openness to include\u201d top prospect Josuar Gonzalez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Giants prospects, including left-handers Carson Whisenhunt and Jacob Bresnahan, outfielder Bo Davidson and shortstop Jhonny Level were also discussed as part of talks, per Baggarly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abrams, 25, hit 19 home runs with 31 stolen bases last season for Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.51032448;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38271753\" width=\"891\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2239093244.jpg\" alt=\"A baseball player in a light blue jersey and white pants with dirt stains throws a baseball.\" class=\"wp-image-38271753\"  \/>CJ Abrams of the Washington Nationals throws the ball to first base against the Chicago White Sox at Nationals Park on September 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/13\/sports\/why-yankees-didnt-land-willy-adames-after-after-amazing-free-agecny-meeting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willy Adames holding down shortstop<\/a> in San Francisco, Abrams would have shifted over to second base if a deal with the Giants had gone through.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/2011110277291389202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2011110277291389202%7Ctwgr%5E88c4aa033a78bd38b7512f66cb2e7b9f8f541226%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fmlb%2F2026%2F01%2F13%2Fbrendan-donovan-nico-horner-trade-rumors-giants%2F88165575007%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan reported<\/a> that the Giants were \u201caggressively pursuing\u201d a second baseman, with the Cardinals\u2019 Brendan Donovan and Cubs\u2019 Nico Hoerner as possible fits.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baggarly added that the franchise might shift their focus to the open market, citing free agents like outfielder Harrison Bader and infielder Luis Arraez as potential targets.<\/p>\n<p>News of the failed trade talks comes one day after the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/22\/sports\/rangers-trade-for-mackenzie-gore-as-yankees-miss-out-on-potential-trade-target\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nationals dealt ace MacKenzie Gore to the Rangers<\/a> in exchange for five prospects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Washington is apparently undergoing another fire sale despite finishing with a losing record in each of the past six seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Giants, on the other hand, are looking to get over the hump, having finished at or just below .500 in each of the past four seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco\u2019s offseason has been relatively quiet after finishing 80-82 last season, with the signings of Adrian Houser and Tyler Mahle to add to the back of their rotation as their biggest moves thus far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After firing Bob Melvin, the franchise <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/22\/sports\/giants-hiring-tennessees-tony-vitello-as-new-manager-in-historic-move\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brought in former Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello<\/a> to be their next manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trade talks centered around CJ Abrams between the Giants and Nationals recently stalled out.\u00a0 The Athletic\u2019s Andrew Baggarly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,6060,1917,56,2321,2469,6,16517,9,14871],"class_list":{"0":"post-700630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-san-francisco-giants","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115948196893033672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}