The largest acquisition of trade deadlines Yankees done last year was for Jazz Chisholm Jr.
The athletic field player turned out to be the outflow was brought to resolve the lack of viable starters on the field, but the role that Chisholm played with the Yankees was different from this managing managing managing Brian Cashman saw.
Speaking on the Yankees hot stove of the network yes Thursday evening, the longtime director general was asked about the current situation of the third base team when he developed his vision.
“When I acquired jazz, I acquired jazz to be our second basic player and move Gleyber (Torres) In the third the rest of last year, “said Cashman. (Director Aaron Boone) wanted to do it in the other direction. He moved the jazz to the third after obtaining it and kept Gleyber (Torres) in second position because Gleyber did not want to go third and did not want. »»
Cashman’s comments are a bit surprised. When Chisholm was acquired and the idea that Torres moved to the third was addressed to the inner field player, he did not take it well.
Torre said to the media On July 28, “I am a second basic player. I play secondly.
The 28 -year -old also went to social networks to respond to cashman’s comments about him.
Always ? 😴😂 Turn simply 🗒️
– Gleyber Torres (@Torresgleyber) February 7, 2025
Torres has experience in modifying positions in the field. He divided the time between the second and the COURT stop before becoming a daily stopping stop in 2021. However, his defensive measures did not increase and he returned to the following year. And staying in the second has apparently helped Torres in the past two seasons in the Bronx.
After hitting .273 / .347 / .800 in 2023, Torres overcome a slow start to finish with a Slash line from .257 / .330 / .709. Torres was also great in playoffs, reducing .241 / .348 / .744 with two circuits and leading to eight points in 14 games from the head of the head.
Chisholm had never played the third goal until last year. He appeared as a second basic player with the Miami Marlins before going to the outside field.
He started 45 games in the warm corner for the Yankees in 2024 and was solid enough for a beginner, but he may have to be again. Torre Signed with the Detroit Tigers in free agency After not having received a contractual offer from the Yankees, a decision must therefore be made, that Chisholm plays the third or the second at the start of the season.
Although it does not have an inner field in which the team can have confidence, Cashman is satisfied with the experience that Chisholm acquired in the third goal because it allows the team more flexibility for 2025.
“The jazz ended up being baptized in a position he had never played, played it well enough and now gives us a little more flexibility in the year of 25,” said Cashman.
Cashman named Oswald Peraza, Oswaldo Cabrera, Dj Lemahieu And Vivas Jorbit As potential options on the third or second goal, and they will all compete for a place this spring. The GM of the Yankees prefers not to have a peloton situation, but if Boone and the organization believe that it is the best way to follow, that’s what they will do.
But Cashman leaves the door open for an external addition.
“I don’t know how (the situation of the third basis is) that will be played,” he said. “I think we can bring out one of these candidates or more guys emerge in the worst in a peloton situation, or a solo shot at best and otherwise there is also the market with which we play as we progress. »»
The Yankees present themselves in spring training on February 11.
