New York Yankees Have "Legitimate Interest" in Nico Hoerner

[Bertz]

Things I'd be looking for in a Nico trade:

- An immediate plug and play high leverage reliever

- High impact starting pitching.  Either one guy relatively close to MLB ready like Jaxon Wiggins is right now, or two guys a little further away like Jaxon Wiggins was at this time last year

- A LHH or switch hitting middle infielder

So like the Mariners can do this.  Matt Brash, Jurrangel Cintje, and Cole Young?  Garret Whitlock, Marcelo Mayer, and Connelly Early or Payton Tolle from the Red Sox fits too.  I'm struggling to see anyone else?  Like I want to be BOWLED OVER.

[mul21]

17 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Not related to the Cubs directly, but worth it to:
1. Watch the other teams scramble if this happens
2. What the return is

I would assume a bag of balls unless the Cards are floating most of his salary.

[KCCub]

10 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Things I'd be looking for in a Nico trade:

- An immediate plug and play high leverage reliever

- High impact starting pitching.  Either one guy relatively close to MLB ready like Jaxon Wiggins is right now, or two guys a little further away like Jaxon Wiggins was at this time last year

- A LHH or switch hitting middle infielder

So like the Mariners can do this.  Matt Brash, Jurrangel Cintje, and Cole Young?  Garret Whitlock, Marcelo Mayer, and Connelly Early or Payton Tolle from the Red Sox fits too.  I'm struggling to see anyone else?  Like I want to be BOWLED OVER.

Where would say a Wilyer Abreu land on your list? On one hand, Nico is absolutely the better player next season by probably 2 fWAR. On the other hand, you would have Wilyer for 3 cost controlled years following this season and could pencil him in RF moving forwards. 

[Bertz]

10 minutes ago, KCCub said:

Where would say a Wilyer Abreu land on your list? On one hand, Nico is absolutely the better player next season by probably 2 fWAR. On the other hand, you would have Wilyer for 3 cost controlled years following this season and could pencil him in RF moving forwards. 

I don't love the idea of spending resources on an outfielder.  I was a big proponent of the Cabrera trade both for liking Cabrera and thinking Caissie was superfluous on this roster.

Then again I don't like a lot about trading Hoerner so add it to the pile I guess.

[KCCub]

5 minutes ago, Bertz said:

I don't love the idea of spending resources on an outfielder.  I was a big proponent of the Cabrera trade both for liking Cabrera and thinking Caissie was superfluous on this roster.

Then again I don't like a lot about trading Hoerner so add it to the pile I guess.

Yea I'm not loving really any Nico trade tbh. More so just talking out loud to see if there's something that would make sense that I could be like, ok I don't love it but do see the direction there. 

[Tryptamine]

36 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Things I'd be looking for in a Nico trade:

- An immediate plug and play high leverage reliever

- High impact starting pitching.  Either one guy relatively close to MLB ready like Jaxon Wiggins is right now, or two guys a little further away like Jaxon Wiggins was at this time last year

- A LHH or switch hitting middle infielder

So like the Mariners can do this.  Matt Brash, Jurrangel Cintje, and Cole Young?  Garret Whitlock, Marcelo Mayer, and Connelly Early or Payton Tolle from the Red Sox fits too.  I'm struggling to see anyone else?  Like I want to be BOWLED OVER.

Yeah it's going to take something stupid that wont get offered for me to be on board with a Nico trade. With the Giants I'll take Bryce Eldridge and Randy Rodriguez. Chances that is offered? 0%. Also, I had completely missed that Rodriguez had TJS in September which means even that wont work. 

[Post Count Padder]

2 hours ago, mul21 said:

I would assume a bag of balls unless the Cards are floating most of his salary.

The Dbacks are paying just 11 mil of the 42 he's still owed. And gave up their 8th rounder from last year. So it's basically a low risk pick up for them and the Cardinals begging to be rid of the contract.

[BigbadB]

20 hours ago, Bertz said:

Ughhhhh I don't like this, this is the type of language, particularly from a guy like Passan, is what you see when something is getting pretty close

 

It feels really weird that Passan points out how an infield of Chapman, Adames, Nico or Donovan and Devers would be one of the best in MLB, while also ignoring how an infield of Bregman, Swanson, Nico, Shaw and Busch would be one of the best in MLB.

 

 

[cubfansince77]

On 1/13/2026 at 12:28 PM, Bertz said:

Things I'd be looking for in a Nico trade:

- An immediate plug and play high leverage reliever

- High impact starting pitching.  Either one guy relatively close to MLB ready like Jaxon Wiggins is right now, or two guys a little further away like Jaxon Wiggins was at this time last year

- A LHH or switch hitting middle infielder

So like the Mariners can do this.  Matt Brash, Jurrangel Cintje, and Cole Young?  Garret Whitlock, Marcelo Mayer, and Connelly Early or Payton Tolle from the Red Sox fits too.  I'm struggling to see anyone else?  Like I want to be BOWLED OVER.

I want to be bowled over too but as much as WE value Nico (and most of us really do) I just don't think he'll bring back enough to justify trading him. His lack of power is palpable and hurts his trade value some IMO. Hope they keep him and extend him personally. Love me some Nico. 

[Rcal10]

51 minutes ago, cubfansince77 said:

I want to be bowled over too but as much as WE value Nico (and most of us really do) I just don't think he'll bring back enough to justify trading him. His lack of power is palpable and hurts his trade value some IMO. Hope they keep him and extend him personally. Love me some Nico. 

Just curious. At what cost do you want to extend him. My guess is he can get 6 years next year. Probably around $25M. Do you want to extend him for that?