Giants and Blue Jays making strong push for Corbin Burnes

The Giants and Blue Jays are among a half-dozen teams showing significant interest in star right-hander Corbin Burnes, and new Giants baseball president Buster Posey met late Tuesday with Burnes’ agent, Scott Boras.Both these teams put in outstanding efforts to sign big-time players, and while both have experienced some struggles in that area, it’s possible the Giants could hold an allure for Burnes, a California native who’s spent his career in Milwaukee and Baltimore.Posey, as a future Hall of Fame Giant, is likely a good person to sell San Francisco.He already lured star shortstop Willy Adames with a $182 million, seven-year deal.

While the Giants have a decent rotation with a bona fide ace in Logan Webb, Burnes would make them a wild-card threat in an impossible division.The Jays, at many times the dollar leader in the Juan Soto sweepstakes, also are in the mix.The incumbent Orioles are in, as well, though presumably the Yankees and Red Sox’s interest diminished with the acquisitions of Fried and Garrett Crochet, respectively.

…The Padres are listening on almost all their veterans (surely not Manny Machado or Yu Darvish).Sign up for Starting Lineup for the biggest stories.

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Never miss a story.They have received inquiries on Dylan Cease, Luis Arraez and even Xander Bogaerts, whose famous $285M deal doesn’t look quite so overpriced now that prices are skyrocketing.

The Yankees failed to land star left-hander Garrett Crochet because they wouldn’t part with both Jasson Dominguez and George Lombard Jr.The Yankees made offers but “never got close.” The Mets also failed to land Crochet because they wouldn’t surrender the tandem of Brandon Sproat and Jett Williams.

So they also never got especially close, either.The White Sox sought two top-100-type prospects for Croch...