{"id":59795,"date":"2025-06-05T21:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T21:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=59795"},"modified":"2025-06-05T21:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T21:47:54","slug":"yankees-trade-proposal-lands-gold-glove-dj-lemahieu-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=59795","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Trade Proposal Lands Gold Glove DJ LeMahieu Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2218105152-e1749147462663.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2218105152-e1749147462663.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2218105152-e1749147462663.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2218105152-e1749147462663.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Trade Proposal Lands Gold Glove DJ LeMahieu Replacement\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>DJ LeMahieu at bat against the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Heading into the trade deadline, the New York Yankees have the flexibility to get creative in the infield. While they seem to have three guaranteed players to play with, Anthony Volpe, Jazz Chisholm Jr., and Paul Goldschmidt, the Yankees could add a second or third baseman because of Chisholm.<\/p>\n<p>When searching for potential options, Empire Sports named an interesting one in the form of Ha-Seong Kim of the Tampa Bay Rays. Kim most recently played for the San Diego Padres, but has missed all of 2024 after undergoing shoulder surgery at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a limited market that doesn\u2019t have a lot of reliable infielders, Ha-Seong Kim\u2019s well-rounded game and high-floor profile make him an effective starter on a championship contender. The Tampa Bay Rays signed him this offseason to a 1+1 deal valued up to $29.5 million if he chooses to pick up his player option for the 2026 season\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could put up an 85 OPS+ and still contribute more than the in-house options based on the glove and speed alone, and that\u2019s worth the price of acquisition. Ha-Seong Kim is a player who doesn\u2019t have huge nights, but his consistent ability to make a positive impact on the game one way or another makes him a perfect addition to an offense with tons of power depth,\u201d Ryan Garcia wrote .<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Kim\u2019s Durability Concerns<\/h2>\n<p>Trading for an injured player would be a bit questionable from the New York Yankees\u2019 perspective, especially one with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>Shoulder injuries are typically tricky, but Kim is a second baseman and shouldn\u2019t be too impacted by it. Hopefully, he\u2019ll return to form, and there\u2019s reason to believe he will.<\/p>\n<p>According to RotoWire, he\u2019s set to play shortstop for Triple-A Durham, showing his arm looks healthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKim (shoulder) is scheduled to play shortstop this week for the first time on rehab assignment with Triple-A Durham, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKim played second base in his last two games with Durham after being used at designated hitter in his first four contests. After picking up two hits in his first rehab game, the 29-year-old is hitless over his last five tilts. Recovering from right shoulder surgery, Kim is expected to be the Rays\u2019 primary shortstop once activated. However, since he\u2019s just now getting reintroduced to the position, has yet to play the field in back-to-back days and is off to a sluggish start at the plate, his return from the 60-day injured list wouldn\u2019t appear to be imminent,\u201d they wrote .<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Productive When Healthy<\/h2>\n<p>When Kim was on the field for the San Diego Padres last year and throughout the first four years of his big league career, he was a very serviceable player, someone the New York Yankees would love to add.<\/p>\n<p>He owns a career OPS+ of 99, which isn\u2019t great, but he still posted a 5.4 WAR during the 2023 season, showing that he can make things happen on the base paths, leave the yard, and live gap to gap.<\/p>\n<p>Kim finished that season with 23 doubles, 17 home runs, 38 stolen bases, and a 107 OPS+. He also won the Gold Glove Award at second base.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s the player the Yankees would get, they should be very happy with how things could potentially go.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Conahan covers the NBA and NFL for Heavy.com. Since 2019, his sports coverage has appeared at Sports Illustrated, oddschecker, ClutchPoints and Sportskeeda. More about Jon Conahan<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Yankees<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Yankees trade proposal lands a Gold Glove replacement for infielder DJ LeMahieu in Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; Ha-Seong Kim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Trade Proposal Lands Gold Glove DJ LeMahieu Replacement - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=59795\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Trade Proposal Lands Gold Glove DJ LeMahieu Replacement - 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