{"id":40085,"date":"2025-04-11T02:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=40085"},"modified":"2025-04-11T02:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:54:38","slug":"yankees-linked-to-future-hall-of-famer-multiple-all-stars-to-fill-clear-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=40085","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Linked to Future Hall-of-Famer, Multiple All-Stars to Fill \u2018Clear Need\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Eugenio-Suarez-Oswaldo-Cabrera.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Eugenio-Suarez-Oswaldo-Cabrera.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Eugenio-Suarez-Oswaldo-Cabrera.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Eugenio-Suarez-Oswaldo-Cabrera.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-img-load-time=\"2407\" data-dom-ready-time=\"4053\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">PHOENIX, ARIZONA &#8211; APRIL 01: Oswaldo Cabrera #95 of the New York Yankees runs past infielder Eugenio Suarez #28 of the Arizona Diamondbacks during the second inning of the MLB game at Chase Field on April 01, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen\/Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Long gone are the days of Alex Rodriguez providing MVP-caliber numbers as the\u00a0New York Yankees\u2019 primary third baseman.<\/p>\n<p>Since A-Rod last played in 2016, the Bronx Bombers haven\u2019t had a player suit up as their starter at the hot corner while collecting 30 home runs, 100 RBI or making an All-Star team.<\/p>\n<p>With superstar outfielder\u00a0Aaron Judge, again, carrying the load for the Yankees offense, New York may need additional lineup help if they want to make another run at the AL pennant. Manager Aaron Boone\u2019s club is perhaps most obviously lacking production at third base, where, as Bleacher Report\u2019s Kerry Miller noted, there\u2019s been a \u201crevolving door\u201d of options, including\u00a0Oswaldo Cabrera,\u00a0Oswald Peraza\u00a0and\u00a0Pablo Reyes this spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is hardly an unexpected development, of course. The Yankees traded for\u00a0Jazz Chisholm Jr.\u00a0to address their third base situation last season\u2014even though he previously had never played third in the majors\u2014but they moved him back to second base after losing\u00a0Gleyber Torres\u00a0to free agency and never did anything to address the resulting hole at the hot corner,\u201d\u00a0Miller wrote. \u201cKind of seems like the plan here was to throw things at the wall for a few months, see if anything sticks and make a trade if nothing does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, the Bleacher Report scribe offered three names as potential upgrades at third base, starting with\u00a0St. Louis Cardinals\u00a0eight-time All-Star\u00a0Nolan Arenado.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may well be an \u2018Arenado or bust\u2019 situation, which is a bit what it felt like all winter, even though the Yankees were never one of the teams rumored to be seriously pursuing the Cardinals third baseman,\u201d Miller wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A 10-time Gold Glove Award winner, Arenado\u00a0was connected to\u00a0the\u00a0Boston Red Sox\u00a0for much of the offseason, before the Yankees\u2019 biggest rival ended up signing two-time All-Star\u00a0Alex Bregman.<\/p>\n<h2>AL East Rival Less Than 2 Years Removed From Batting Title<\/h2>\n<p>Miller also mentioned\u00a0Tampa Bay Rays\u00a0veteran\u00a0Yandy Diaz\u00a0as a possible fit. The 33-year-old has played nine of his 11 games this year as the team\u2019s designated hitter and took first base for all 112 of his contests on defense in 2024 but also has 290 career appearances at third.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf not Arenado, D\u00edaz is probably the next-best combination of \u2018can play third base\u2019 and \u2018should be available,\u2019 but we\u2019ll see if he\u2019s available to the Yankees. The AL East rivals have only ever made three trades, and none of those were deadline deals,\u201d Miller wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz is off to a slow 8-for-46 start this spring but had a solid .281\/.341\/.414 slash line across 563 at-bats last season. Diaz had his best year in 2023, posting career highs in runs scored (95), hits (173), doubles (35), home runs (22), RBI (78), batting average (.330), slugging percentage (.522) and OPS (.932).<\/p>\n<p>He made his lone All-Star team that season and won his only Silver Slugger Award, as well as the AL batting title and finished sixth in the junior circuit\u2019s MVP voting.<\/p>\n<h2>Former All-Star Slugger Seeking 6th Season With at Least 30 Home Runs<\/h2>\n<p>The final option listed in the article is just a career .248 hitter and finished the 2021 campaign below the Mendoza line.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Diamondbacks\u00a0third baseman\u00a0Eugenio Suarez\u00a0does one thing well with the bat, however, and he does it better than many other players.<\/p>\n<p>Whether with the\u00a0Cincinnati Reds,\u00a0Seattle Mariners or Diamondbacks, the 33-year-old Suarez has always been a consistent source of power. Suarez has 281 career regular season home runs in 1,484 games (5,277 at-bats) and finished five different seasons with at least 30 long balls.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 All-Star hit a career high 49 home runs in 2019 and posted 30 dingers and 101 RBI in 2023 during his first season in the desert. Suarez has been his typical all or nothing self through the early part of the 2025 campaign, going just 7-for-45 with 15 strikeouts, but also hitting five home runs, which is tied for the NL lead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty PHOENIX, ARIZONA &#8211; APRIL 01: Oswaldo Cabrera #95 of the New York Yankees runs past infielder Eugenio Suarez #28 of the Arizona Diamondbacks during the second&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Linked to Future Hall-of-Famer, Multiple All-Stars to Fill \u2018Clear Need\u2019 - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=40085\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Linked to Future Hall-of-Famer, Multiple All-Stars to Fill \u2018Clear Need\u2019 - 24\/7 News America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Getty PHOENIX, ARIZONA &#8211; 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