Should the Yankees trade prospect Spencer Jones?

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25-07-2025

Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jordan Shusterman and Jake Mintz explain why it's the perfect time for New York to deal their hot-hitting outfield prospect. Hear the full conversation on the 'Baseball Bar-B-Cast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.the
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I have a couple of thoughts here as someone who thinks a lot about Spencer Jones.
One, the Yankees should absolutely trade him at this deadline, like 100%.
I hope Spencer Jones gets to have a long big league career.
If he wants to be with the Yankees, I hope that that happens.
However, his value is never going to be higher than it is right now.
Him hitting 13 home runs in 19 games right in front of the deadline when the Yankees have holes to fill, just, just go, just do it right now.
Now, you mentioned that he's doing his best Aaron Judge impression.
That is more recent from a mechanical standpoint than you might realize, No, Judge is a righty, Jones is a lefty.
Only over the last year or a bit more has Jones kind of fully adopted the Judge swing, the Turner Man style back hip load, one leg type deal.
The stance is incredibly ugly looking; it is not fluid.
And if it looks like someone who's never, who hasn't played a lot of baseball, like when he stands there, but when he makes contact, holy freaking crap.
And the one other important thing that's worth noting about Spencer Jones is that he could probably play a little bit of center, right?
And I think that gives him a slightly higher floor than what he's being given credit for.
Well, and this is why the spit on the Yankees, if that is to be, because I think your points about the deadline are totally valid.
He's only played center.
Now, I don't know what that means because so did Jason Dominguez, and he's like one of the worst left fielders I've ever seen.
So I don't know how to project any Yankees defender at this point, so I think we can stay focused on the bat, but that's the other thing, as I say, oh well, he's got to be up at some point.
But like I, like I also said about Suarez, the Yankees are not craving home runs right now.
So that's why I think, to your point, trading him for something that they actually do need would make a lot of sense, even though you have to imagine there would be some level of fear that like, oh my God, what if he is 60% of Aaron Judge, that's a hell of a hitter.
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