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Tigers Predicted to Trade For Two-Time Blue Jays All-Star After Kerry Carpenter News originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
The 2025 Tigers are playing the best baseball that has come out of Detroit since the early 2010s, and doing so with a lineup of mostly role players emboldened by last year’s Cinderella run to the ALDS.
Reigning Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal has been electric for the third straight year, and has thrown 16 straight scoreless innings over his last two starts that included a May 25 “Maddux” against the same Guardians that ended his 2024 season.
The main point of need for MLB’s best team is help at the back of the bullpen, but ESPN insider Jeff Passan linked Detroit to a very interesting AL East trade candidate in his June 3 deadline preview.
Passan wrote that he believes the “best fit” for the Tigers is two-time Blue Jays All-Star shortstop Bo Bichette, who is set to become a free agent after this season.
Bichette, along with Vladimir Guerrero Jr., were heavily rumored to become available last year as the Blue Jays fell to a last-place finish in the AL East.
Guerrero Jr signed a 14-year, $500 million extension to keep him a Blue Jay for most, if not all, of his career, but Bichette is still waiting on a lucrative deal from Toronto.
If that doesn’t happen, and the Blue Jays look to move on from their shortstop with infield prospects Josh Kasevich and Arjuan Nimmala a couple of years away from the majors, they could look to trade him instead of letting him walk for nothing.
Passan wrote that Bichette, who hit seven home runs and slugged above .500 in the month of May, brings the kind of pop that current shortstop Trey Sweeney doesn’t have.
“Bichette’s gap-to-gap power would play well at Comerica Park and lengthen a lineup that has scored more runs than anticipated,” Passan wrote.
Passan’s suggestion comes a day after outfielder Kerry Carpenter became the first Tigers player to hit three home runs in a game since fringe Hall-of-Famer Victor Martinez in 2016.
The 27-year-old Bichette would add another all-around bat next to Carpenter in Detroit’s already dangerous lineup as they jockey for postseason position into the summer.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 3, 2025, where it first appeared.
