San Francisco Giants: Five trade destinations for Evan Longoria

With the recent report that the San Francisco Giants are listening to offers on third baseman Evan Longoria, we look at five potential landing spots.

According to a tweet from Jon Heyman, the San Francisco Giants are “gauging trade interest” for third baseman Evan Longoria.

That seems like a bit of no-brainer as I’m sure the Giants would love to get out from under that contract. And can the San Francisco Giants front office finally come out and admit they are rebuilding?

Anyway, a trade involving Longoria wouldn’t be easy as he is owed around $60 million over the next four years and has a $5 million buyout in 2023.

On top of that, he’s entering his age 33 season and is coming off one of the worst performances of his career as he hit just .244 in 2018 with 16 home runs in 125 games.

To his credit, before last season Longoria had played in at least 156 games for five straight seasons with at least 20 home runs in each of those years.

There is certainly the hope that he will bounce back to his career norms in 2019, but teams will have to judge the last thing they saw, and that isn’t good for the Giants.

Any kind of deal involving Longoria will either have to be a money swap, or the Giants will have to include some impact major league players who are cheap.

For the Giants, that would likely include some of their bullpen arms like Will Smith and Tony Watson.

Or, they might have to include a top prospect from their very thin farm system — maybe someone like Chris Shaw or Heliot Ramos.

However slim the chances may be, we look at five teams who could benefit by trading for Longoria.