BREAKING: Justin Upton signs with Detroit

So we just got some interesting news out of Detroit and the Upton camp. Justin Upton is signing with the Detroit Tigers, it's a Six year deal worth one hundred and thirty two  million dollars. Upton hit twenty six homers for the San Diego Padres last season and should be the extra pop that is needed to protect Miguel Cabrera. Miggy is a Triple Crown threat and an MVP threat every season and with the addition of Upton Cabrera's numbers should get even better. Detroit now has two of the most feared hitters in the game and both of them just so happen to be right-handed.
Upton has an Opt-Out after the second year so if you are Detroit winning right away is not only in the mind of the front office, but the players. Upton last season in San Diego had the twenty six bombs with eighty one RBI's and a .251 average and a .790 on base percentage. Detroit is paying for Upton's prime years while also giving him his flexibility. Detroit however loses their third overall selection in the upcoming draft as compensation. Detroit lost their second overall selection when the team signed Jordan Zimmerman early this month.
Detroit was rumored to be close to signing one of their former outfielders Yoenis Cespedes. Cespedes is link to the New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, Houston Astros, and the Tigers as well before they decided to go with Upton. Cespedes should be signing somewhere very soon as he might have just been waiting to see where Upton went to gauge the market to see what type of value he could get. Cespedes was looking for a deal that is very similar to the deal that Upton just signed. Cespedes may be the better player just because of the element he can bring on the defensive side of the diamond.
Sources:( Bleacherrepport.com, baseballreference.com, mlb.com)

Don't forget to subscribe, like, comment, and share on your way out!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The 2023 Offseason is Brian Cashman's Biggest Test Yet

Image
   Now that the World Series is over five days from now the offseason begins. With that in mind, this is the biggest offseason that Brian Cashman will have in his 25-year tenure as Yankee General Manager. For the first time since 2016 the Bronx Bombers watched the postseason from their couches, and they earned that right. Amazingly, this team finished over .500, although not that far above that mark. This iteration of the Bronx Bombers finish with the same record as that 2016 team—but the feeling with this squad feels different. Following the 2016 season, there was hope of the two power bats that would usher in the “Baby Bombers,” and in that offseason, the farm system was rated in the Top 10 in all of baseball. There was almost certainty that Brian Cashman would put a championship team around Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Greg Bird, and Luis Severino that would be a title contender for years to come. There was hope. And that hope almost turned into reality. Almost. But, that was then
Read more

The Question going into the Trade Deadline for the New York Yankees

  There is a crossroads in the Bronx in between River and 161 st Street right now. As New York Yankee Manager Aaron Boone likes to put it “[the season] is right in front of them.” The second half of the season is for the taking. As we move into the dog days of summer the Bronx Bombers are nine games out of the division and now a game and a half out of the AL Wild Card race following a disappointing first series in Colorado. With that, the historic starting Tampa Bay Rays have cooled off, going 3-7 before the break while showing signs of being mortal. Baltimore, who has been keeping pace with Tampa, didn’t look like a Superpower when they split against the Yankees two series before the break. The AL East is still a Spartan Training Facility with every team above .500, the Orioles holding the first Wild Card spot, and the “struggling” Boston Red Sox tied the Yankees in the Wild Card race. And unlike Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire, help is not on the way. Aaron Judge’s toe is still a m
Read more

The Answer for the Mets

  As Yogi Berra would say “it’s déjà vu all over again.” Buck Showalter is an all too familiar place. The 67-year-old manager has taken a time machine back to 2012. No, he is not managing in Baltimore anymore, however that’s what it feels like the end of Showalter’s Oriole tenure in Queens right now. The Mets simply can’t get out of their own way. With Pete Alonso likely headed to the Injured List, the Mets scored 10 runs last night in Atlanta. 10 runs on the heels of back-to-back gut-wrenching losses at the hands of the team that has foiled the Mets for the better part of almost three decades, the Atlanta Braves. 10 runs with their hired ace, Justin Verlander, who was looking to put together good starts consecutively for the first time all season. The Mets looked like they were about to exercise some demons in Atlanta last night, and then, the other shoe dropped. It wasn’t good enough. Again. Last night, I wrote that the Mets season was on the line with Verlander toeing the slab. Well
Read more