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New York Yankees Add 3B Ryan McMahon To Address Pressing Need
Ryan McMahon can look forward to a pennant race after joining the New York Yankees on Friday. (AP ... More Photo/David Zalubowski) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The New York Yankees stepped decisively into the trade deadline swap meet when they acquired two-way third baseman Ryan McMahon from the Colorado Rockies on Friday. The move addresses multiple needs for the Yankees, cementing the third base position on both sides of the ball while adding another left-handed bat to a Yankee Stadium that is built for left-handed hitters with its 314-foot porch down the right-field line. The Yankees also were able to keep the major league roster basically intact for the stretch run without raiding the top of their farm system, where Spencer Jones and George Lombard Jr. reside. They are sending pitching prospects Griffin Herring and Josh Grosz to the Rockies. New York, the 2024 American League champion, entered the weekend 4 1/2 games behind the Toronto Blue Jays in the AL East. They held a two-game lead over Seattle and a 2 1/2 game lead over Boston for the first wild card. While major league RBI leader Eugenio Suarez is the top third baseman on the market, the Arizona Diamondbacks' expectedly high asking price led the Yankees to McMahon, who was considered the No. 2 third baseman available because of the Rockies' desire to restructure after a disastrous 2025. McMahon has two years remaining on a six-year, $70 million contract extension he signed before the 2022 season that bought out the final two years of arbitration and three years of free agency. The Yankees, who have a $295 million payroll this season, will owe McMahon about $4.2 million of his prorated 2025 salary and $16 million in both 2026 and 2027. McMahon, 30, profiles as the Yankees' answer at third base for the length of his contract, anchoring a position that has been unstable since Miguel Andujar played 132 games there in 2018. The Yankees have tried five third basemen this season, with Oswald Peraza (33) Oswaldo Cabrera (30) and Jazz Chisholm (28) getting most of the work. As a group, they are hitting .214 with a .354 slugging percentage and a .645 OPS, the last two numbers the worst on the team. Chisholm was acquired in a deadline move last season to play third, but his best infield position is considered second, when he has spent most of the season. Chisholm returned to second when DJ LeMahieu was released before the All-Star break, leaving a gaping opening at third. The Yankees took short look at minor leaguer Jorbit Vivas after the break before deciding they had to make a change. McMahon has three home runs in six games after the All-Star and is on pace for his fifth straight 20-homer season, which would be he sixth of a career all spent with the Rockies. McMahon also has been among the premier defenders at third since taking over full-time in Colorado 2021, after Nolan Arenado was traded to St. Louis as the Rockies' looked to get from under another long-term contract. He was plus-12 in defensive runs saved among major league third baseman in 2024, according to FanGraphs, and is plus-four this season. He is plus-64 in his major league career. McMahon has one homer in a six-game sample size at Yankee Stadium. How do the Colorado Rockies benefit? Rockies co-owner Charlie Monfort told the Denver Post in late June that 'I think we need a new set of eyeballs' at the top levels of the organization as they play out what will be a third straight 100-loss season. Part of that includes freeing money, and McMahon was the second-highest player on the roster. Kris Bryant still has three years remaining on his six-year, $182 million free agent deal signed in 2022, but back issues have limited him to 11 games this season and threaten to end his career. The Rockies have never been afraid to spend, but their choices have not always worked out, often for health reasons. Starter German Marquez, in the final year of a two-year, $20 million extension, is on the disabled list again this season after spending much of 2024 out after Tommy John surgery. Starter Antonio Senzatela, in the third of year a five-year, $50 million extension, has a major league-high 13 losses. Shortstop Ezequiel Tovar signed a seven-year, $63.5 million extension this spring after a breakout 2024, but he played only 37 games because of a left hip and contusion and a left oblique strain. The Rockies, always in the market for controllable pitching because it is difficult to lure free agent starters to Coors Field, and newcomer Herring is having a good season at two Class A levels going 7-3 with a 1.71 ERA in 16 starts. Her was the Yankees' No. 8 prospect at the time of the deal, according to The Yankees signed him to a well-over-slot $797,500 bonus after picking him in the sixth round of the 2024 draft. Grosz was ranked as the Yankees' No. 21 prospect.
Yahoo
29 minutes ago
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Red Sox rookie infielder Marcelo Mayer goes on 10-day IL with right wrist sprain
Rookie infielder Marcelo Mayer was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right wrist sprain by the Boston Red Sox on Friday. Mayer, 22, sustained the injury in Wednesday's 9-8 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. He drew a two-out walk against Jesús Luzardo in the fifth inning, but hurt his wrist while swinging and missing at a slider during the at-bat. He didn't come out of the game immediately, running the bases and coming around to score on a Romy González grand slam. But Abraham Toro took over at third base in the bottom of the inning. 'I just felt a little tight grab in my wrist when I took a swing in my second at-bat,' Mayer told MassLive's Chris Cotillo afterward. 'I knew I really couldn't do anything after that so I just called it.' A natural shortstop, Mayer has mostly played third base while Alex Bregman was on the IL with a right quad strain. He's also played at second base and made a couple of appearances at shortstop during his 44 games. Mayer was Boston's 2021 first-round pick (No. 4 overall) and was called up on May 25 when Bregman went on the IL. Ranked as the Red Sox's No. 3 prospect before the season by Mayer has struggled with his hitting as a rookie, batting .228/.272/.402 with eight doubles, four home runs and 10 RBI in 136 plate appearances. Infielder David Hamilton was recalled from Triple-A Worcester to take Mayer's spot on the active roster. He was on the major league roster until Bregman was activated from the IL on July 11. Hamilton's best asset is his speed with 15 stolen bases in 18 attempts. He batted .179/.229/.276 in 133 plate appearances before being demoted. Bregman (.290 avg., .899 OPS) will start at third base for the Red Sox on Friday's series opener versus the Los Angeles Dodgers with Ceddanne Rafaela (.270 avg., .780 OPS) playing at second base. Boston is currently third in the AL East at 55-49, 6.5 games behind the Toronto Blue Jays (61-42) and two games behind the second-place New York Yankees (56-46).
Yahoo
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NFL players, employees fined for selling Super Bowl tickets: reports
More than 100 NFL players and dozens of club employees are to be fined or suspended for selling their allocations of tickets for this year's Super Bowl on secondary markets, US media reported on Friday. ESPN reported that players who sold allotted tickets will be fined one-and-a-half times the face value of the tickets sold and be barred from receiving tickets to the next two editions of the Super Bowl. Players amongst those caught will be given the option of purchasing tickets if their team reaches the Super Bowl in 2026 or 2027. Players who decline to pay the fines face being suspended, ESPN cited league and union sources as saying. ESPN quoted an NFL memo sent to teams which said employees and players had sold tickets to "bundlers" working with a ticket resale site. Tickets to the Super Bowl are consistently one of the hottest -- and most expensive -- tickets in North American sport, fetching as much as $10,000 on resale sites. "Our initial investigation has determined that a number of NFL players and coaches, employed by several NFL Clubs, sold Super Bowl tickets for more than the ticket's face value in violation of the policy," NFL chief compliance officer Sabrina Perel wrote in the memo. Perel cited "long-standing league policy" which "prohibits League or club employees, including players, from selling NFL game tickets acquired from their employer for more than the ticket's face value or for an amount greater than the employee originally paid for the ticket, whichever is less." Perel added that the league will enhance mandatory training before Super Bowl LX for all league personnel to emphasize the rules and "the broader principle that no one should profit personally from their NFL affiliation at the expense of our fans." The league, meanwhile, also planned to improve training to avoid a repeat, with the possibility of stiffer sanctions for future offenses. "No one should profit personally from their NFL affiliation at the expense of our fans," Perel wrote in the memo. rcw/js
