Newsweek TopThe Baltimore Orioles recently announced they were signing top catching prospect Samuel Basallo to a massive eight-year contract extension to keep him with the team for nearly a decade.
The knee-jerk reaction to a move like this is the idea that franchise superstar Adley Rutschman now becomes expendable for the Orioles.
FanSided's Christopher Kline recently suggested the San Diego Padres could be a landing spot for Rutschman if the Orioles opt to trade the star.
"While Fermín is a perfectly adequate catcher, he's still below average as a hitter, like most of his positional peers," Kline wrote. "He doesn't offer close to the upside or the offensive pedigree of Rutschman, who also happens to be three years Fermín's junior. San Diego no longer has the abundance of assets it once did, but