The 2024 MLB season ended with Alex Verdugo hitting Walker Buehler to ensure the triumph of the Dodgers World Series over the Yankees last October.
Five months later and a week away from the opening day of the entire league, no MLB team apparently wants to have anything to do with executioner.
The Yankees flop has not received an offer from the big leagues, but after a horrible lonely season at the Bronx, According to Atlético.
“I’m surprised,” said the MVP prevailing Aaron Judge to The Outlet. “He is a great player.
That Verdugo, 28, has not yet received a guaranteed money offer, may seem surprising, but there are several factors that work against him.
The biggest is, well, his poor game.
Verdugo recorded an OPS of .647 worse of his career last year with the Yankees, counting an 83 OPS+ that occupied 17 points below the league average.
After scoring a promising start with an exhibition of 3 by 5 in its first game in Fenway Park on June 14 after four seasons with the Red Sox, executioner cut alone .205/.266/.287 with .554 OPS The rest of the season.
He contaminated four home runs and 20 races promoted in his last 80 games.
The Yankees, perhaps stubbornly, continued starting Verdugo despite the limited results, even gave 48 shifts to the postseason bat in which he hit .208.
Verdugo played the left garden well for the Yankees, which is remarkable since it can be difficult for the man from the spacious part of the Yankee Stadium.
Verdugo won $ 8.7 million last season and there may be a discrepancy between how the teams see it and how they feel that it should be compensated.
It is possible that the offers of minor leagues, which do not include the minimum of the veteran, have been discussed, but that would represent a massive salary cut.
Verdugo can also be looking for a regular role after playing in almost all games in the last five years.
There is also the remarkable tendency that three of the best MLB franchises in the Dodgers, the red socks and now the Yankees have moved from it, and the first two have no problem sending it to another place.
Verdugo faced Alex Cora de Boston when leaving, and Cora is considered one of the best sport managers.
There are still eight days until the Opening day of the MLB in the United States, after the Dodgers took both games of the puppies tokyo this week, and things could change due to injuries and other problems on the list, but, for now, Verdugo will wait to see if something changes.
Companion Yankee Anthony Rizzo is not on a list either, although it is easier to see why in that case due to their age (35), declining the game history and injuries in recent years.
