Mock trades hit a new low with ridiculous Vladdy-Yankees trade proposal

As we march through the 2024-25 MLB offseason, the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees are two teams that are headed in very different directions but have similar goals. The Blue Jays just finished last in the AL East in 2024 while the Yankees won the division and made it all the way to the World Series, where they lost to the Dodgers.

The Jays are set to chase contention in 2025 while the Yankees are looking to get over the hump and finish the job. Both teams need some additional help to their current rosters, even if one is far and away a more talented bunch than the other.

The Yankees got little-to-no production from their first basemen in 2024, which has led Bleacher Report's Kerry Miller to propose an insane trade that'd see the Blue Jays send Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to their most hated rivals in exchange for a prospect haul.

Below is the trade proposal. Make it make sense.

Mock trades hit a new low after Vladdy-Yankees trade proposal comes out

To start with, the Blue Jays are going to give one last shot at contention in the upcoming season. Trading away the face of their franchise is going to make that goal a lot harder to accomplish. The team has been pursuing a long-term contract extension with the 25-year-old, and that extension could make or break talks with superstar free agent Juan Soto this winter.

That alone makes this deal practically null and void. Guerrero is not going to be traded, even if he's one year away from hitting free agency and the Blue Jays are having trouble clawing their way back into contention.

At one point, Guerrero had expressed a severe disinterest in ever playing for the Yankees, but he walked back those comments down the line. That alone is not going to factor into why this trade proposal is ridiculous, but the Blue Jays likely won't make a trade of this magnitude with their biggest rivals to begin with. If they did, the Yankees would obviously lock Guerrero up immediately and he'd be a major thorn in Toronto's side for the next decade-plus. No, thank you.

That's not to say that the package of prospects that'd go from New York to Toronto in this proposal wouldn't be a solid get, though. Miller believes the Yankees should send Jones (No. 2 Yankees prospect per MLB Pipeline), Selvidge (No. 7) and Beeter (No. 18), which is no small price to pay for a player of Guerrero's stature. However, the fact that the Jays are eyeing that potential "last run" with the Guerrero-Bo Bichette core kills this deal before it even gets off the ground.

Pass.