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It’s MLB Trade Deadline season as only 10 days stand between now and “pencils up” at 6pm on July 31st. The Yankees have their work cut out for them as they bid to return to the World Series after suffering Fall Classic heartbreak at the hands of the Dodgers
in 2024.
New York is likely in need of another starting pitcher and bullpen help as well, but the hot corner is a sore spot as well. It was OK earlier in 2025 when All-Star Jazz Chisholm Jr. held down the position (on offense at least), but with the team finally cutting ties with over-the-hill second baseman DJ LeMahieu, Chisholm returned to his natural position at the keystone a couple weeks ago.
It was a move that needed to be made, as it was better to have Jazz’s bat at a position where he could actually excel rather than fill in. But with Oswaldo Cabrera out for the season, it did open up third base to a very light-hitting combination of former top prospect Oswald Peraza (26 OPS+) and rookie Jorbit Vivas (56 OPS+). Needless to say, the Yankees are shopping for improvements at the Trade Deadline, and it would be hard to do better than Diamondbacks slugger Eugenio Suárez (156 OPS+), who has clobbered 35 homers already in an All-Star walk year.
ESPN recently ranked Suárez as the top player on the trade market this year though, so he won’t come cheap — especially with the hot corner a hot commodity among team needs around the league. This week’s Reacts post thus centers around two prospects who the Yankees could consider trading for Suárez: the team’s consensus No. 1 prospect George Lombard Jr. (currently at Double-A after a great Futures Game showing), and masher Spencer Jones, another top prospect and one who has positively mashed since his arrival at Triple-A at the end of June (10 homers in 16 games). Both are former first-round draft picks.
So we want you to consider a hypothetical scenario. Please note the word hypothetical. Every team has its its own way of valuing prospects, and for all we know, the D-backs could be low on both Lombard and Jones and thus more interested in getting different prospects from another team. (Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, after all, no matter what this outlet or that outlet says about someone.) For this reason, PSA generally stays away from trade proposals because they’re almost always pointless.
This is just about what you would do, and gauging fan opinion on prospect cost for a top rental on the trade market for the fun of it. So suppose you’re Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and Arizona GM Mike Hazen calls you up and says, “Hey, we’ll send you Suárez in a one-for-one swap, but you have to give up Jones OR Lombard.”
What would you do? Do you prefer one prospect to the other? Would you be happy to send either of them to get Suárez? Or would you pass because the cost is too high? These are the options for the sake of the exercise! Remember that there’s no guarantee that you could work something out with additional players in the deal on either side, anyway.
Vote in the poll and let us know! We’ll check out the results later this week.
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