{"id":321112,"date":"2026-08-14T08:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321112\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:24:25","slug":"yankees-jazz-chisholm-jr-has-few-answers-for-season-long-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321112\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. has few answers for season-long woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jazz Chisholm Jr. wavered between downcast and confident<\/a> that his season from hell would turn around in its final six weeks following a rancid day at the plate against the Mariners, but one solution the Yankees infielder didn\u2019t want to entertain was sitting on the bench for a few days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that would help,\u201d Chisholm said Thursday after striking out three times, including for the last out in a 1-0 loss to the Mariners<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s the only way I know how to get through anything is to keep going through it. I feel like to sit and just sit on it is not a good move either.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chisholm was pinch hit for against a lefty last Friday against the Braves, and though the Yankees could look for similar opportunities to do so, he doesn\u2019t like that idea either.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy numbers are better [compared to last season] against lefties,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think \u2014 like, why.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chisholm\u2019s batting average is similar against lefties and righties, but his OPS is nearly 90 points lower against left-handed pitching. <\/p>\n

The Yankees have also built some right-handed depth after trading for Heliot Ramos, who pinch hit for Spencer Jones in the eighth inning Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for how to fix his own season-long hitting woes \u2014 his .687 OPS is down massively from his .813 mark a year ago, as are most of his numbers \u2014 Chisholm sounded out of ideas. <\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) strikes out swinging to end the game when the New York Yankees played the Seattle Mariners Thursday, August 13, 2026. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

When it was put to him that he has a 40 percent whiff rate against breaking pitches, Chisholm replied, \u201cI\u2019m at a 40 percent whiff rate on every pitch right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMissing fastballs down the middle. Missing sliders down the middle. I can\u2019t tell you why,\u201d he said. \u201cOr else I would be hitting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chisholm said he\u2019s talked to Paul Goldschmidt a couple of times about the pressure of being a pending free agent, but claimed that\u2019s not weighing on him so much as his struggles are in general.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Given the Yankees\u2019 bigger-picture hitting issues, which were at the forefront again Thursday, the club desperately needs Chisholm to solve what\u2019s ailing him sooner rather than later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like overall, he\u2019s making good swing decisions,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cHe\u2019s not chasing. There\u2019s some patience in there. But probably, whether it\u2019s just missing, maybe a foul off, maybe swinging through more pitches than he\u2019s used to, just hasn\u2019t gone on that hot streak at any point.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) reacts after he strikes out swinging. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

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That might be coming, Chisholm said. Although, whether he truly believes it is probably an open question.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cForty-one good games can turn a season around. And that\u2019s what I\u2019m planning on doing,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 I feel like mentally, I\u2019m not defeated. So if I was mentally defeated, I think it would have been a different story in my eyes, but I\u2019m not. I feel like I\u2019m still as good as I am.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jazz Chisholm Jr. wavered between downcast and confident that his season from hell would turn around in its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37028,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-321112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jazz-chisholm","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321112","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=321112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}