The Yankees are making an upgrade at third base, acquiring Ryan McMahon from the Colorado Rockies.
New York is sending two pitching prospects in exchange for the 2024 All-Star, LHP Griffin Herring and RHP Josh Grosz. MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand was the first to report the trade.
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The Rockies are currently a league-worst 26-76 and on pace for the worst record in major league history.
McMahon is in the fourth year of a six-year, $70 million contract. He’s owed $16 million each of the next two seasons before becoming a free agent ahead of the 2028 season.
The 30-year-old is slashing .217/.314/.403 this season with 16 home runs, 15 doubles, and 35 RBI over 100 games. He’s struck out a league-leading 127 times, but is still on pace for his fifth straight 20-plus home run season, and the sixth of his career.
It’s a drop-off from his All-Star 2024 season in which he hit .242 with 20 homers, 28 doubles, and 65 RBI. McMahon had a career-best 4.0 WAR in 2021 with 23 home runs, 32 doubles, and 86 RBI in 151 games.
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He was drafted by Colorado in the second round of the 2013 MLB Draft out of Mater Dei HS in Santa Ana, CA and made his debut at age 22 in 2017. Over nine seasons and 1,010 games with the Rockies, McMahon owns a .240 batting average and .743 OPS with 140 homers and 452 RBI.
Defensively, McMahon has logged 696 games at third base, owning a .968 fielding percentage. He’s also played 244 games at second base, 70 at first base, seven as a DH, and two at SS. He’s played 100 games at third this season (.978 fielding percentage) and manned the hot corner for 152 games in 2024, leading the league in both assists (323) and errors (15).
The Yankees will bank on his glove at third base for at least the rest of the season, allowing them to slide Jazz Chisholm Jr. back over to second base full-time.
This likely takes New York out of the running in the Eugenio Suarez sweepstakes.
