After failing to land Pete Alonso, the Pink Sox have pivoted to a different choice for first base.
Boston acquired Willson Contreras from the Cardinals, The Publish’s Jon Heyman confirmed — with pitchers Hunter Dobbins, Yhoiker Fajardo and Blake Aita going again to St. Louis within the deal, based on ESPN.
Contreras, who spent the primary seven years of his profession with the Cubs and the previous three with the Cardinals, reportedly waived his no-trade clause, based on MassLive.
He caught for many of his profession and earned three All-Star honors on the place, however in 2025, he shifted to first base and appeared in 120 video games — with 119 begins — there for St. Louis. He additionally hit .257 with a .791 OPS, 20 homers and 80 RBIs.
And after watching Alonso bolt from the Mets to the Orioles on a five-year, $155 million deal, the Pink Sox — who supplied the slugger fewer years and “considerably much less” cash due to his age, based on the Boston Globe — wanted to fill that spot within the lineup.
Along with a division rival bolstering its lineup in an offseason when Brian Cashman has remained quiet thus far, the commerce may also influence the Yankees’ rivalry with the Pink Sox due to the jolt Dobbins supplied final yr.
He informed the Boston Herald that “if the Yankees had been the final time to offer me a contract, I’d retire” and concocted a story that his father had been drafted by the group twice and was associates with longtime Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte.
However The Publish’s Joel Sherman revealed that Dobbins’ father by no means had any affiliation with the Yankees and that he wasn’t shut with Pettitte.
“The entire backstory, it was stuff that I had heard rising up and seen photos of, from my dad,” Dobbins mentioned after the story broke. “… On the finish of the day, I don’t go fact-check my dad or something like that.”
