{"id":367823,"date":"2026-10-08T13:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367823\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:04:46","slug":"yankees-luis-garcia-an-intriguing-second-base-option-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367823\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Luis Garcia an intriguing second base option for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz Chisholm Jr. was absent from Wednesday\u2019s starting lineup, a reflection of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/07\/sports\/jazz-chisholm-jr-s-maddening-yankees-career-could-end-on-bench\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">how sharply he has fallen this season<\/a> and a reminder that the Yankees could use a second baseman next season.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes Luis Garc\u00eda Jr.\u2019s future position a bit more curious.<\/p>\n<p>In his first six seasons with the Nationals, Garc\u00eda played 508 games at second base and was particularly strong, according to various advanced metrics, in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>But his effectiveness dipped enough in 2025 that Washington converted him to a full-time first baseman this year, where he has been playable if not excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jazz Chisholm Jr. was absent from Wednesday\u2019s starting lineup, a reflection of how sharply he has fallen this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,20,9,24,321,63,319,428,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-367823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367823","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=367823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}