per MLB.com<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a great core group in place. We are in a great position. We don\u2019t have to make any moves to accommodate payroll or to buy payroll flexibility, so to speak.<\/p>\n![\"Corey](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/texas-rangers-corey-seager-follows-110189298.jpg\")
The Yankees did not sign Corey Seager before the 2022 season. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019re expecting to win with whatever number we have. I\u2019m very confident we\u2019ll be able to put together a very good team, whatever the payroll number is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seager entered free agency in 2021 following a strong run with the Dodgers and many projected the Yankees as a logical destination.<\/p>\n
The shortstop seemed like a natural fit in The Bronx due to the team\u2019s glaring need at the premium position, the upside of his lefty bat playing 81 games at Yankee Stadium and the financial flexibility the Yankees possessed at the time.<\/p>\n
The Gleyber Torres experiment at shortstop had runs its course, with Quad-A player Andrew Velazquez actually starting the wild-game loss to the Red Sox.<\/p>\n
The Yankees, though, had Volpe waiting in the pipelines. <\/p>\n
Most sites projected Volpe as a future star at the position and the Yankees opted not to pursue Seager like the Rangers did, leading to him landing in Texas.<\/p>\n
Well, four offseason later, waiting on Volpe has not proven to be wise.<\/p>\n
Volpe has slashed .222\/.283\/.379 with a .622 OPS, with the fans booing him mercilessly during the playoffs. Even his Gold-Glove defense and baserunning have deteriorated.<\/p>\n
Yet, even if the Yankees wanted to move on it would be challegning.<\/p>\n
Volpe is not making much and it seems the team is determined to give him every opportunity to succeed, even if the fans disagree.<\/p>\n
Cot\u2019s Baseball Contracts projects the Yankees already around $281 million in payroll, and Steinbrenner has made it known that he doesn\u2019t believe he needs to support $300-million-plus payrolls each year.<\/p>\n
Adding Seager\u2019s $31.5 million would add another hefty contract to the books at a time when the Yankees still have Giancarlo Stanton for at least two more years for $56 million, with Carlos Rodon and Gerrit Cole also being paid more than $63 million combined for the next three seasons.<\/p>\n
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Anthony Volpe has not lived up to expectations in The Bronx. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
On the Rangers\u2019 end, it remains to be seen whether the team will have to make such drastic moves.<\/p>\n
The Dallas Morning News said its uncertain whether the team will have a slight or big reduction in payroll, since, in theory, trading either or both would compromise the team\u2019s chance to win.<\/p>\n
Seager cannot block a trade to the Yankees since they are not on his no-trade list, per the outlet.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old posted a 6.2 BWAR season last year, posting an .860 OPS with 21 homers and 50 RBIs in 102 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love the position-player group we have, and we\u2019ll have to evaluate if there are ways to improve that group,\u201d Young said. \u201cOur obligation is to put the best team together that we possibly can. Unfortunately, as is the nature of baseball, sometimes you have to make tough decisions on players that you love, that have been part of the core group.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to see wholesale changes where we flip out nine position players, but I think that change can be good. Every team will go through change. No team is going to bring back the exact same roster. Who that is, I can\u2019t tell you, but I just say we\u2019re open-minded in terms of personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shortstop who got away may be available this winter, but the Yankees may not be in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4459,27255,20,3473,21528,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-48270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-corey-seager","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-mlb-hot-stove","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\/48270","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=48270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}