The Yankees have had some discussions regarding Jazz Chisholm Jr., writes Jon Heyman of the New York Post. It’s not clear how serious New York’s interest is or whether they’ve been in contact with Miami’s front office.
Chisholm will be the subject of ample trade chatter over the next three weeks. Craig Mish of the Miami Herald wrote earlier in the week that there’s increased belief around the industry that he’ll be dealt. The Marlins probably won’t take many players off the table as they continue the rebuild they truly commenced with the Luis Arraez trade at the start of May. Thanks to a brutal series of injuries that has decimated their rotation, Chisholm is probably Miami’s most valuable deadline trade chip.
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The lefty-hitting Chisholm connected on his 12th homer of the season in today’s loss to the Astros. He’s carrying a slightly above-average .255/.324/.419 slash line through 377 plate appearances. Chisholm has stolen 18 bases but been thrown out on eight occasions. He’s walking at an average 8.5% clip while striking out just over a quarter of the time.
It might not be dominant production, but Chisholm at least looks like a solid everyday player. Some teams could still view him as an upside play at age 26. Chisholm was a staple on top prospect lists thanks to his evident combination of athleticism and raw power potential. He’s shown glimpses of that ceiling at the big league level — most notably during an All-Star 2022 season in which he hit .254/.324/.535 over his first 60 games. Chisholm’s seeming breakout year was cut short by a stress fracture in his back. He has been a good but not elite player over the past season and a half, hitting .253/.314/.436 with 30 longballs and 40 steals over 755 plate appearances.
That more recent stretch has coincided with a position change. Chisholm was a middle infield prospect who broke into the majors as a primary second baseman. The Marlins moved him to center field when they acquired Arraez going into ’23. Defensive metrics are mixed on his outfield work. Defensive Runs Saved has rated Chisholm 14 runs below average in more than 1500 center field innings. Statcast has him as a neutral defender.
While the Yankees don’t necessarily need outfield help, they should be looking for ways to deepen the lineup. New York has Juan Soto and Alex Verdugo in the corner positions. Aaron Judge has played mostly designated hitter since Giancarlo Stanton landed on the injured list, drawing Trent Grisham into the lineup in center field. Playing Grisham regularly isn’t ideal, but Stanton could be back around the deadline (thereby pushing Judge back to center).
Miami hasn’t played Chisholm for a single inning on the infield dirt since 2022. Manager Skip Schumaker flatly shot down the idea of getting him infield reps after the Fish designated Tim Anderson for assignment at the start of July (X link via Isaac Azout of Fish on First). Other teams may be more willing to rotate Chisholm into the middle infield, at least on occasion. Heyman suggests that if the Yankees were to make a serious run at Chisholm, it’d likely be with an eye to the infield. Neither Gleyber Torres nor DJ LeMahieu have gotten things going offensively, leaving the Yankees without much production from second or third base.
Chisholm is under team control for two and a half seasons, so Miami should net a significant return if they do move him. He’s making just $2.625MM this year, a little less than half of which has yet to be paid.
I’m sure his chains and overall show off demeanor will play well in new York when he inevitably butchers a ball in the outfield or jogs out a grounder to 3rd…
Why worry? They have Gleber jogging now…
Sounds a lot like their current left fielder
Verdugo statistically is the best defensive LF in the American League nit wit.
YanksPhan42: Yes, I’m aware he’s a good fielder. I was referring to the other attributes mentioned that are very similar to him. But I’m sure you knew that. I’d give the nod to Kwan over Verdugo however
And I’d have to go with Kwan over Verdugo (at the plate and in the field) as the better LF in the American League.
I actually thought Riley Greene was leading LFs defensively. Of course he has played some CF lately.
Better than the boring players they are running out there now. At least Jazz shows some interest in the game.
Seems to have no interest in fielding or catching the ball though.
@Astros_fan_in_Aus
Jazz has interest in fielding and catching the ball. the problem is that he keeps running into walls.
Interest in the game or interest in Jazz? There’s a difference.
He’ll fit right in. Almost every Yankees batter is wearing a chain during games. Have you seen Verdugo’s and Cabrera’s bling? Chisolm is at -1 OAA defensively and has graded above average since his move to the outfield.
In a recent game against the Astros he absolutely butchered two catches that a competent outfielder would have taken. His overall fielding performance in that game was terrible.
Grisham survived. Ever watch Posada run out a routine ground ball? I can’t say Jeter’s fielding was for a lack of effort, but c’mon.
Was going to say, too much swag to play there
Only a fool would trade Jasson Dominguez or Spencer Jones for Chisholm.
Then again, Cashman is the Yankees GM.
ctbronx Cashman is an idiot but he’s the opposite type who hugs prospects too much. The Dodgers could call and offer Ohtani and to pay his deferred money for Jones and Cashman would say no.
What is more likely is him hot dogging it. He runs balls out. He will probably walk around the cloubhouse ike he owns it.
If I were the Yankees I’d be looking to replace LeMaheiu at 3rd. He’s been worse than Torres at second, has zero pop. Torres is salvageable and Stanton will be back putting Judge back in the outfield. I don’t get this move unless they are done with Torres, but the weakest link is LeMahieu.
DJL has been bad but at least he can play the infield. He’s going to rotate between 3B and 1B with OCab and Ben Rice. I don’t mind Chisolm as he’s only 26 with a few years of arb left. I’m not sure Torres is going to find himself and it’s puzzling.
To play where? 2B? A place he hasn’t played in 2022, and I thought Jazz wanted to move from 2B to CF?
2B and CF. Grisham can’t hit.
Mmk
I think the Yankees would be a good fit where he would learn not to be a nuisance in public and would have good leadership to help straighten him out on and off the field
There’s no way the Yankees use him at short or 3rd but he can still play 2nd and platoon with gleyber
At his max I think he could be the next Curtis granderson where he’s small but still always goes for the home run
@sad, I feel Gleyber would be part of the trade so 2b would be open hypothetically
Torres is a free agent after this year what good would he do a rebuilding Miami team? No chance he’s part of the return.
Expiring contracts have value, it’d be money off Miami’s books in the off-season. It’s as valuable to Miami as prospects, maybe even more so.
King I’m,
Oh my god that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on this site and I’ve read some epically dumb things. Excellent troll job unless you are serious, then, well….
I don’t think baseball works like the nba…
@kingbum
Wow! Just wow!
Wonder if the Yankees would include Torres on their end of the deal. Miami has no need for him but they might be interested in buying an extra prospect by taking him.
It’s an expiring contract they’d take him for a prospect just to let him go in the off-season.
Cashman dropped the ball by not making a play for Arraez. He’s exactly the hitter they need at the top of the lineup. Him, Soto and Judge as a top 3 would be ridiculous. Obviously too late now.
There wasn’t really a fit back in May. Arraez is one of worst fielding second baseman in MLB and makes Torres look like a GG’er. No one would expect that he would turn into a pumpkin. Yankees had Jon Berti and Cabrera at 3B and Torres and Jones at 2B.
Understand what you’re saying…..but on a team that couldn’t hit last year with a snow shovel, you make room for a lefty batting champ who never strikes out.
Cashman made a mistake by not trading Gleyber for Pablo Lopez or not trading Gleyber this past offseason for a SP but everyone would have blasted Cashman for trading Gleyber
I don’t know why the Twins would want Torres. They had Julien and at the time he was looking like the future 2B. He wasn’t going to move Correa out of his position, which makes him the DH. Pretty much what he should be anyway. Lopez would have cost more than Torres at the time if the Twins would have even entertained Torres as part of the trade anyway.
thegreatgoodbye meant Cashman made a mistake not trading Torres to Miami for Pablo Lopez before Minnesota acquired him
So before the 2022 season? That does seem a lot more realistic. I guess my only issue with condemning Cashman for not trading him is that it’s a hindsight complaint. Torres had quite a lot of hype surrounding him at the time. Also, If Cashman HAD traded him for Lopez, the trade would not look that good at this moment anyway.
I thought Arraez in that lineup with power behind him, scores even more runs. His fielding is terrible. Not below average. A disaster. Eventually he has to move to first. The Yankees have too many DH types. Always swinging he never walks.
I’m surprised Yanks haven’t tried Rice at 3b; as a catcher turned 1b bagger he may have the ability to be almost DJL replacement level on defence.
I think the Yankees are in trouble. There is going to come a point where they can’t spend enough new money to fill all the holes created by bad contracts. They might be there now.
Outside of Spencer Jones and Dominguez, the Yankees have no prospects that could get someone like Jazz Chisholm. As usual, most Yankee prospects result in either being overhyped (Volpe) or result to pretty much doing nothing (Cabrera, Peraza, Wells, .etc). These are just the recent ones, there are many many many more. I don’t know how Cashman keeps on tricking these other GMs
Well exactly how is Volpe :overhyped”….GG shortstop….have you even see him play??
Obviously you know little about the Yankee minor league system and its players…they may not be ranked #1 but they aren’t dead last either.
And Cabrera and Wells are both rotational starters on the ML level…does every player in your world need to be an Allstar to matter…the Yankees are as good as any ML team in producing ML players…guess you were a Refsnyder joker too eh?
Yeah Ben Rice and Luis Gil are garbage. Volpe is also terrible.
Volpe OPS+ is 89, it was 81 last year. So nothing special yet in spite of the unneccesary hype.
Gil has given up 18 runs in his last 21+ innings. That IS terrible.
Ben Rice with his whopping 67 at bats? Hall of Famer, for sure.
How are the rest of Gil’s stats? Or are you just going to pick cherries?
Volpe is a GG SS who’s improved as a hitter.
Uncle Ben has launched the Yankees in to the Rice Age.
Don’t be hatin’.
You’re an idiot. Volpe is still just 23 and already a GG fielder. Gil should be on the all star team and Rice has raked at every level.
Go back to homeroom.
Yes, as a Mariners fan the names Justus Sheffield and Jesus Montero are two Yankee “Grade A” prospects seared into our memory. Cashman sure took us for a ride on the overhype train with those two. (maybe it was revenge for the Jay Buhner deal? )
Michael Pineda and James Paxton were great Yankees!
I know Mr. Mackey mmkay? But the returns the Mariners received for those great players were worth about the same as the newspaper used to line hamster cages. How were these supposedly mighty blue-chip Yankee prospects so utterly misjudged & over-hyped by everyone?? (I just remembered Justus Sheffield wasn’t an original Yankee prospect so I’ll give ya only partial credit on that one)
One guy, especially one marginally above league average, is not going to fix the strategic mistakes Cashman made. And one guy certainly isn’t going to turn Boone into a strategist. I’d be sellers if I were the Yankees, not buyers. They don’t have what it takes this year
Hope they give up Dominguez and Jones and they become Hall of Famers and that Chisholm hits .000 and boots a grounder that causes them to lose game 162 and miss the playoffs to Tampa or Boston.
That’s not a very nice thing to say Karen. Most of us try to put our best effort into being friendly and cordial around here. Social media is toxic enough, we don’t need to drag this place into the cesspool as well. (Although I know people continue to try.)
it’s great to see kind words on this site – thank you, you ignorant son of a
He will get injured before he hits .000.
Karen is the perfect name for you
Everyone relax. With a properly placed comma, this headline becomes merely a conversation concerning a musical genre.
Relax!?! That’s easy for you to say! You’re just a little baby !! You don’t even have to go to work, fight traffic, be humiliated by your inferior boss!!! Just wait Little Baby…
I’ll have you know, I’m the most aggressive baby my pediatrician has ever encountered!
Another injury prone player is just what the Yankees need
Not sure why the Yankees are looking for an average MLB player with subpar defense. Don’t they have a bunch of those guys already?
They should be looking to shore up their pitching.
“discussed”
“Hey do we want this guy?”
“Probably not, but let’s see if we can get him cheap”
His agent has convinced Jazz that he’s an entertainer first and then an athlete. NOT!
Cool…send Stanton (plus $$$) back to Miami and throw in Grisham for him. Lol
Nope. Remember. Jeter “gifted” Stanton to the Yankees. We don’t take “gifts” back. Enjoy that “gift”. Stanton is the “gift” that keeps on giving!
People “regift” things they’ve been given, but don’t want, all the time. You just have to wrap it up nicely so it looks brand new. 😉
Well, let the first rebuild I’ve ever seen that involves a team with most of its key players being 28 years old or younger, continue.
Great logic! Is this about making the team better or guaranteeing job longevity with overseeing a rebuild?
@BannedMarlinsFanBase Bendix might be the worst GM in the game right now. He also speaks like he is entitled and a know it all. I don’t know how he sweet talked the owner into giving him the job. Hes a geek that sounds like he drinks soy for every meal. He has no clue about baseball
Bendix may sound like he drinks soy with every meal, but when looking at his physique, it would be clear that soy shake must have some milk shakes mixed in, and those dinners have cheese and heavy mayonnaise on everything.
As for his abilities as a GM, he’s not off to a good start. I seriously have never seen a rebuild involving a team whose key pieces are 28 and younger, and the team made the playoffs the year before. There are pieces here now that can stay here for a few years. They should be building the team up instead of breaking it down. I can’t think of any logic behind it other that guaranteeing longevity in job security.