{"id":37334,"date":"2025-07-25T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37334\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:26:09","slug":"why-yankees-jumped-on-ryan-mcmahon-trade-and-gave-up-on-eugenio-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37334\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Yankees jumped on Ryan McMahon trade \u2014\u00a0and gave up on Eugenio Suarez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees prioritized getting on the board rather than hitting a home run at third base<\/a>. They really liked Eugenio Suarez, but felt Arizona had a strong group of contenders vying for the slugger, perhaps led by the Cubs.<\/p>\n

That convinced the Yankees that there would be a waiting period, through the weekend at least, as even after trading first baseman Josh Naylor to the Mariners, the Diamondbacks wanted to use more time to learn if they had a last-ditch chance to get into the wild card race. And then with multiple teams on Suarez, the bidding could go back and forth all the way to Thursday\u2019s trade deadline. That would guarantee a rise to a prospect cost that the Yankees did not want to expend on a walk-year player, as brilliant as Suarez\u2019s power has been since last year\u2019s All-Star break. And there was a fear of waiting until the deadline and not getting Suarez \u2026 and then what?<\/p>\n

The Yankees wanted to hold onto better prospects because internally they see pitching as a bigger priority than third base. That is how they ended up on Friday dealing two lower-level pitching prospects \u2013 lefty Griffin Herring and righty Josh Grosz \u2013 to the Rockies for Ryan McMahon<\/a>. They are seeing it as an upgrade at third base \u2013 almost anything would have to be \u2013 while staying flexible to add elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Eugenio Suarez is the top third baseman on the trade market. AP<\/p>\n

It is even still possible that the Yankees add another position player \u2013 someone such as Minnesota switch-hitter Willi Castro or Washington\u2019s righty-swinging Amed Rosario \u2013 as they search for batters who do well against lefties (as McMahon makes the daily lineup even more left-handed) and have positional maneuverability. But the main area of fixation now is to improve the pitching.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees prioritized getting on the board rather than hitting a home run at third base. They really…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[29472,363,15238,369,99,362,358],"class_list":["post-37334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-minor-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}