{"id":31009,"date":"2025-03-06T07:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=31009"},"modified":"2025-03-06T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:38:12","slug":"urgent-fix-yankees-pushed-to-trade-for-5-95m-infielder-to-save-injury-riddled-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=31009","title":{"rendered":"URGENT FIX: Yankees Pushed to Trade for $5.95M Infielder to Save Injury-Riddled Lineup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees\u00a0injury list is reaching\u00a0unwieldy levels. The latest additions came on Monday when both third baseman D.J. LeMahieu and starting pitcher Luis Gil went down with a sore calf and lat strain, respectively. Even before the Yankees&#8217; string of injuries kicked in, there was already a hole in the infield left behind by seven-year second baseman Gleyber Torres, who signed\u00a0a free agent contract\u00a0with the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>To provide at least a patch for the infield gap, New York Post columnist Joel Sherman \u2014 who has\u00a0covered the Yankees for that paper\u00a0for 36 years \u2014 proposed a trade on Tuesday that would bring a six-year veteran, who put up a respectable .763 OPS last season, to the Bronx \u2014 while shipping the Yankees&#8217; fourth outfielder, who\u00a0just returned from injury himself\u00a0this week, to Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>Under\u00a0Sherman&#8217;s trade idea, the Yankees would send\u00a0outfielder Trent Grisham to the Los Angeles Angels, along with 29-year-old righty Ian Hamilton \u2014 who\u00a0recorded a 3.82 ERA\u00a0with 41 strikeouts in 37 2\/3 innings out of the Yankees bullpen last year \u2014 and either Oswald Peraza or Yoendrys Gomez.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange, the Yankees would acquire Luis Rengifo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"imageBox\">\n<div class=\"innerBox ar23-innerBox\"><picture class=\"mapping-embed\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2601104\/new-york-yankees-outfielder-trent-grisham.webp?w=790&amp;f=fcb613c609d5ba1691b5f2b1acd6eaee 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2601104\/new-york-yankees-outfielder-trent-grisham.jpg?w=790&amp;f=fcb613c609d5ba1691b5f2b1acd6eaee 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2601104\/new-york-yankees-outfielder-trent-grisham.webp?w=900&amp;f=01f05745cb282d3d3d2763f1f66a68c9 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2601104\/new-york-yankees-outfielder-trent-grisham.jpg?w=900&amp;f=01f05745cb282d3d3d2763f1f66a68c9 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2601104\/new-york-yankees-outfielder-trent-grisham.webp?w=790&amp;f=fcb613c609d5ba1691b5f2b1acd6eaee 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2601104\/new-york-yankees-outfielder-trent-grisham.jpg?w=790&amp;f=fcb613c609d5ba1691b5f2b1acd6eaee 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2601104\/new-york-yankees-outfielder-trent-grisham.webp?w=450&amp;f=c8ef500b42237e0d692030467590c901 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2601104\/new-york-yankees-outfielder-trent-grisham.jpg?w=450&amp;f=c8ef500b42237e0d692030467590c901 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2601104\/new-york-yankees-outfielder-trent-grisham.webp?w=1200&amp;f=6f2638b1271e0afc47aa16fa35a1e416\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i2601104\" class=\"mapping-embed imgPhoto\" src=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2601104\/new-york-yankees-outfielder-trent-grisham.jpg?w=1200&amp;f=6f2638b1271e0afc47aa16fa35a1e416\" alt=\"New York Yankees outfielder Trent Grisham\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption ar23-caption\"><span id=\"short-cap-description\" class=\"cap\">NEW YORK, NY &#8211; SEPTEMBER 11: Trent Grisham #12 of the New York Yankees looks on before the game against the Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium on September 11, 2024, in New York, New&#8230;<\/span>\u00a0<button id=\"read-more-cap\">More<\/button>\u00a0<span class=\"credit ar23-credit\">New York Yankees\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grisham is set to\u00a0make $5 million on a one-year\u00a0contract in 2025. Rengifo, also on a one-year deal, is due $5.95 million, meaning their salaries almost offset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why would the Angels do this?&#8221; Sherman asks. &#8220;Rengifo is a free agent after this season. The Angels signed Yoan Moncada to play third base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Post columnist notes, &#8220;no team moves its first round picks to the majors faster than the Angels.&#8221; After promoting 2022 first rounder (13th overall) Zach Neto to the big club after just 28 minor league games, and 2023 No. 13 overall pick Nolan Schanuel to the majors after only 22, the Angels are set to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know who is the talk of the Angels&#8217; current camp?&#8221; Sherman asked. &#8220;Brooklyn native Christian Moore, a second baseman taken eighth overall last year who has played 25 minor league games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moore is believed to have a good chance of breaking camp with the major league Angels roster after spring training, according to Sherman.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As for what the Yankees could expect from Rengifo, that answer goes beyond merely filling a defensive gap in the infield. The switch-hitting 28-year-old from Venezuela sports a career OPS of .771 against left-handed pitching. That&#8217;s 50 points higher than what\u00a0the Yankees as a team were able\u00a0to manage against southpaws in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>One potential drawback in acquiring Rengifo would be the infielder&#8217;s right wrist. He injured the wrist in July, missed three weeks, only to find that when he returned he managed only nine games before requiring season-ending surgery.<\/p>\n<p>But Rengifo now says, according to\u00a0MLB.com, that he had a &#8220;normal&#8221; offseason and feels &#8220;good and ready to go.&#8221; He added he wants to be on the field for every game, but will he play those games in an Angels uniform, or in Yankee pinstripes?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees\u00a0injury list is reaching\u00a0unwieldy levels. The latest additions came on Monday when both third baseman D.J. 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