Jazz Chisholm Jr. should not play on the third base of the New York Yankees For more than a month.
He is a good defender in the second base (three outs above the average) and one poor in the third (-2 oaa). He is playing in the anteroom right now in deference to DJ Lemahieu, an aged veteran and expensive with a mediocre and without scope in defense.
Some have suggested that the Yankees should acquire a second left -handed base to play in Pelotón with Lemahieu, but the way to follow is get a true third titular base and change Chisholm to Secondperhaps giving Lemahieu some headlines against left -handed pitchers.
Colorado Rockies can have just what the Yankees are looking for.
On Thursday, Matt Ferenchick of Pástripe Alley suggested the third base Ryan McMahon, who is currently under contract until 2027 in an extension of $ 70 million, as a possible exchange candidate for bombers this summer.
“The Yankees are probably more needy of someone who can play third base regularly. Rockies have a competent of those in former All-Star Ryan McMahon,” he wrote.
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“He has never registered an OPS+ above the league average, but he has always been around that mark and provides a good defense in the hot corner. It is another who has 1.5 years left in his current contract, but someone who the Yankees could acquire if Colorado wants to move money.”
McMahon, 30, is a superior third base defender (4 oaa) whose offensive could take a leap away from Cours Field, but with the short porch to aim at the Yankee Stadium. It has an OPS of .728 and 12 home runs so far this year.
One of the main incentives of the rocky to redeem it, if not the main one, is money. So if the Yankees want it, they better be willing to disburse the 16 million dollars that are owed in each of the next two full seasons.
