{"id":312193,"date":"2026-08-03T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312193\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:24:07","slug":"where-yankees-can-look-to-fill-remaining-holes-after-luis-garcia-jr-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312193\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Yankees can look to fill remaining holes after Luis Garcia Jr. trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Yankees slugger Luis Garc\u00eda Jr., a vastly improved player who leads the National League in slugging (.560), <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/02\/sports\/yankees-trade-for-nationals-luis-garcia-jr-to-bolster-offense-at-deadline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will help the sagging Bronx Bombers lineup<\/a>. The New York-born Garc\u00eda was finally showing his big potential in the Nats\u2019 new, fun environment, and heaven knows the Yankees need bats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, Garc\u00eda\u2019s acquisition seems fairly redundant since statistically he\u2019s nearly a ballplaying duplicate of Yankees phenom Ben Rice (.561 slug). Plus, he also gives the Yankees maybe the greatest first-base depth ever, with a thriving future Hall of Famer Paul Goldschmidt now technically the third-string first sacker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are some other ideas that fill more obvious needs: Make a play for Angels star shortstop Zach Neto and work to bring in one of three catchers \u2014 Hunter Goodman, Adley Rutschman or Ryan Jeffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neto is a terrific talent who\u2019s been a 20-20 guy playing in the wasteland of a fake version of L.A. (it\u2019s actually Anaheim) and should be even better in serious surroundings. Some teams are concerned about his defense and makeup, but the metrics don\u2019t do him justice and folks who know him say he\u2019s a nice kid who happens to have a bit of Miami flair (like famed Yankees shortstop Bucky Dent, he hails from that area).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yankees slugger Luis Garc\u00eda Jr., a vastly improved player who leads the National League in slugging (.560),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,94970,9,11,10,321,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-312193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}