{"id":567757,"date":"2026-04-06T11:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/567757\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:31:13","slug":"yankees-ryan-mcmahon-breaks-out-of-slump-even-as-concerning-signs-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/567757\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees\u2019 Ryan McMahon breaks out of slump even as concerning signs continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees acquired Ryan McMahon last year because of his glove \u2014 not his bat.<\/p>\n

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The third baseman\u2019s plate production is becoming an issue.<\/p>\n

Even after an offseason tinkering with his swing, McMahon hasn\u2019t slowed his swing and miss and the occasional power the Yankees hoped he\u2019d flash has mostly been absent.<\/p>\n

Despite a high-powered top half of the lineup, McMahon is one of several players slumping at the bottom, along with Jos\u00e9 Caballero and Austin Wells.<\/p>\n

He had a couple of hard-hit balls on the West Coast trip, as well as one in Saturday\u2019s win over Miami, but it was on the ground.<\/p>\n

He finally snapped an 0-for-22 skid with a single in the sixth inning of Sunday\u2019s 7-6 loss to Miami<\/a> and walked in the eighth.<\/p>\n

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Those free passes have offset some of McMahon\u2019s struggles, but not all of them.<\/p>\n

And most distressing has been McMahon\u2019s strikeout rate.<\/p>\n

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Yankees third baseman Ryan McMahon (19) reaches first base on an error during the third inning against the Miami Marlins at Yankee Stadium, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Bronx, NY. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

McMahon whiffed 40 percent of the time heading into Sunday\u2019s game, higher than his 32.3 percent career mark.<\/p>\n

A year ago, his 32.3 percentage was the highest among qualified hitters.<\/p>\n

Boone pointed to some positive signs in recent games, but acknowledged the slump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the ball he hit to left and his at-bats were better than we saw in Seattle, [when] I felt like he was in-between a lot,\u2019\u2019 Boone said. \u201cI thought his intent was good on his swings on a couple of fastballs [by Eury] P\u00e9rez. \u2026 Hopefully he builds on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

McMahon narrowed his stance before the season to reduce his swing-and-miss rate.<\/p>\n

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It hasn\u2019t worked, and he also seems to have lost power.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a little bit in-between,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t want to chase or make bad decisions, which is great, but you\u2019ve also got to go up there and let it rip. It\u2019s an early-season scuffle. He\u2019s really talented, [has] pop [and] does know the strike zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yankees third baseman Ryan McMahon (19) hits a two-run RBI single during the second inning. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n

The Yankees don\u2019t have a clear alternative at third base, since they prefer Amed Rosario to play more of a utility role \u2014 especially with Caballero playing shortstop every day due to Anthony Volpe being sidelined following offseason shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s also no getting around the fact that McMahon \u2014 who singled in his first plate appearance of the season Opening Day in San Francisco \u2014 didn\u2019t have another hit until Sunday.<\/p>\n

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With the Yankees having won eight of their first nine games before Sunday\u2019s defeat, they could live with McMahon finding his way at the plate, but that won\u2019t last forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees acquired Ryan McMahon last year because of his glove \u2014 not his bat. Access the Yankees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[32843,4701,4700,40912,2821,2324,363,24276,5284,1839,99,250793,12404],"class_list":{"0":"post-567757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-amed-rosario","9":"tag-anthony-volpe","10":"tag-austin-wells","11":"tag-jose-caballero","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-marlins","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-ryan-mcmahon","16":"tag-san-francisco","17":"tag-seattle","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-third-baseman","20":"tag-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567757","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=567757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}