{"id":73646,"date":"2025-06-27T07:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=73646"},"modified":"2025-06-27T07:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:21:40","slug":"yankees-braves-trade-proposal-sends-three-time-all-star-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=73646","title":{"rendered":"Yankees-Braves Trade Proposal Sends Three-Time All-Star to New York"},"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\/05\/GettyImages-2214980828_3915ba-e1748466270509.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2214980828_3915ba-e1748466270509.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2214980828_3915ba-e1748466270509.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2214980828_3915ba-e1748466270509.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees-Braves Trade Proposal Sends Three-Time All-Star to New York\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Boone after being thrown out of a game against the Mariners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York Yankees have some work to do in the infield and the bullpen at this year\u2019s trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>They reached the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2024, but it was easy to see New York was overmatched, lacking their opponents\u2019 star power, outside of Aaron Judge.<\/p>\n<p>Third base is an area of need if manager Aaron Boone wants Jazz Chisholm Jr. to play his natural position at second base. If Chisholm stays at third, an upgrade at second base becomes the priority, in all likelihood.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Atlanta Braves Should Be Sellers<\/h2>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves started Thursday six and a half games back of a National League Wild Card spot. Their season has not gone the way the front office or the fans hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, that makes the Braves strong candidates to trade one or a few of their better players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Atlanta Braves started the season without Ronald Acuna Jr. and Spencer Strider. Without the two superstars on the field, the Braves struggled to start the season,\u201d Clutch Points\u2019 Zachary Howell wrote Wednesday. \u201cEven now that they are back, Atlanta has failed to turn their season around so far. Ozzie Albies is one of many players having a down offensive year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 79 games in 2025, Albies is hitting .224\/.298\/.326 with six home runs and a .624 OPS. He hit 33 home runs in 148 games just two seasons ago. The three-time All-Star won a World Series with the Braves in 2021.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Trade Idea<\/h2>\n<p>In Howell\u2019s trade proposal between the New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves, New York acquires Albies in exchange for second baseman DJ LeMahieu and middle infield prospect Roderick Arias, who is ranked as the Yankees\u2019 fifth-best prospect by MLB Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlbies\u2019 exit would be a tough pill to swallow for Atlanta,\u201d wrote Howell. \u201cHowever, getting one of the Yankees\u2019 top prospects in return would be a good way to sell it to the Braves\u2019 fan base. However, this trade requires Atlanta to believe that they are out of the National League playoff picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The biggest problem Braves fans might have with this trade is that Arias is still a few years away from making his Major League debut, while LeMahieu is having a worse offensive season than Albies, albeit in 44 fewer games.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Will Albies Improve at the Plate?<\/h2>\n<p>A lot of the New York Yankees\u2019 recent offensive woes stem from stranding runners in scoring position. Albies is performing better in scoring situations than when there are no runners on base, hitting .273 with a .726 OPS this season. Twenty-one of his 28 RBIs were recorded with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Albies\u2019 numbers don\u2019t improve, his slashing numbers will all be career lows. While a lot of his issues at the plate cannot be excused, many of them could be attributed to the additional pressure he was under at the beginning of the season,\u201d wrote Howell. \u201cSince moving down in the order, he has played better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps less pressure to perform and a winning environment in New York could help break Albies out of his rut.<\/p>\n<p>Conor Liguori is a sports journalist covering the MLB for Heavy Sports. Conor has covered professional baseball leagues like the KBO, NPB, CPBL, and the LBPRC in Puerto Rico. He holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree from Eastern Connecticut State University. More about Conor Liguori<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees may look for an upgrade over DJ LeMahieu at second base, and the Atlanta Braves have someone who fits the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":73656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees-Braves Trade Proposal Sends Three-Time All-Star to New York - News 365<\/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:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=73646\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees-Braves Trade Proposal Sends Three-Time All-Star to New York - 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