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Are the Bronx Bombers ready to splurge this offseason?

The Giants are coming off an impressive season and have plenty of flexibility as they look to build on that success. 

Cubs, Giants Have Reportedly Discussed Kris Bryant Trade 7:20am CDT July 28: Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic tweets that the Giants are “backing off” any proposals from the Cubs which center around Bart. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Susan Slusser recently reported that among Giants top prospects, Bart may be the “most” available, but that doesn’t means the club is flat-out shopping him or willing to include him for a high-priced rental player such as Bryant (or the majority of Chicago’s other trade candidates). July 27: The Giants and Cubs have had discussions about a possible�...

Nationals Have Interest In Kris Bryant The Nationals are among the teams with interest in Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant, reports MLB Network’s Jon Heyman (Twitter link). There will certainly be plenty of other suitors for the former NL MVP, who might wind up being the top player traded over the next two weeks. Indeed, the Nats aren’t the only team in the NL East reportedly looking into a Bryant acquisition. The division-leading Mets were linked to the four-time All-Star last night. On the surface, New York looks to be a more obvious deadline buyer than Washington, who enters tonight’s...

Originally posted on MLB Trade Rumors  |  By Anthony Franco  |  Last updated 7/7/21 Throughout the offseason, the Astros constructed their roster with the luxury-tax threshold in mind. That was most apparent in the club’s signing of right-hander Jake Odorizzi to a two-year guarantee that came with an extremely low-priced 2023 player option that the veteran righty will almost certainly reject. The obvious purpose was to spread out the contract’s average annual value — a club’s luxury-tax balance is calculated by summing the AAV’s of the team’...