{"id":78512,"date":"2025-07-12T08:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T08:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=78512"},"modified":"2025-07-12T08:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T08:16:26","slug":"yankees-make-decision-on-trade-status-of-top-prospect-george-lombard-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=78512","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Make Decision on Trade Status of Top Prospect George Lombard Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/George-Lombard-Jr-e1752264485413.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\/George-Lombard-Jr-e1752264485413.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/George-Lombard-Jr-e1752264485413.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/George-Lombard-Jr-e1752264485413.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Make Decision on Trade Status of Top Prospect George Lombard Jr.\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>George Lombard Jr. poses for a picture on New York Yankees photo day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York Yankees have had many top prospects in their farm system over the past few years. Unfortunately, some of them haven\u2019t exactly panned out the way the Yankees were hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s always tough to get a feel for what prospects could be in the future, the Yankees look like they have a very good one in George Lombard Jr. Lombard, who could be the Yankee shortstop in the future, is very young, but he has all the tools in the world to not only be an All-Star, but one of the better shortstops in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason alone, some believe there\u2019s no chance he gets traded at the deadline, including The Athletic, which recently looked at who the Yankees could move. Upon examining the situation, they noted that the only untouchable in the system is Lombard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf trading the entire farm system is 10, I\u2019d say 8.5. They\u2019re not going to trade George Lombard Jr. Other prospects though? Spencer Jones has to be on the table. Ben Hess and Bryce Cunningham (as well),\u201d they wrote .<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Would the Yankees Use Lombard as a Trade Chip?<\/h2>\n<p>Given that the New York Yankees have to make a big deal at the trade deadlines to be the team they\u2019re looking to be, some have questioned who they could move.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Athletic, while Lombard isn\u2019t expected to be available, it\u2019s likely that the Yankees will move on from some of their other top prospects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt depends on who you see as the top two or three guys. Lombard is No. 1. Baseball America had Schlittler as No. 2 in its June update, though the Yankees probably can\u2019t trade him because they need the (rotation) depth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019ve written, some teams see Carlos Lagrange as a future All-Star closer, and Cunningham seems to be the best pitcher out of last year\u2019s Yankees draft class. But there are a few high-end arms in the system, and the Yankees tend to get a lot out of middle-round guys. In addition, as mentioned above, I think they would be open to trading Jones,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Who Will Be the Yankees\u2019 Shortstop of the Future?<\/h2>\n<p>For Lombard, the hope is for him to be what the New York Yankees envisioned all of their top prospects to be. While that\u2019ll be difficult, and there\u2019s certainly no guarantee because of how young he is and just how difficult it is to compete at the highest level in Major League Baseball, the signs have been promising.<\/p>\n<p>According to an anonymous scout when speaking to NJ.com, they believe Lombard is the future at shortstop over Anthony Volpe, which might not come as much of a surprise given what Volpe has done throughout this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hearing that Lombard is the closest thing to untouchable that the Yankees have in their system,\u201d a veteran American League scout told NJ Advance Media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLombard is a better fielder than Volpe,\u201d the scout shot back. \u201cThe hands work better. The feet work better. Better arm, and it\u2019s not even close. The timing is better. Lombard\u2019s more fluid. His fielding is crisp, clean and absolutely outstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lombard, only 20 years old, has struggled a bit at certain times in his professional career, but for the most part, has been very good.<\/p>\n<p>He had a .983 OPS in High-A before he moved up to Double-A Somerset, where he\u2019s currently hitting just .202.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Conahan covers the NBA and NFL for Heavy.com. Since 2019, his sports coverage has appeared at Sports Illustrated, oddschecker, ClutchPoints and Sportskeeda. More about Jon Conahan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have reportedly made a decision on the trade status of their top prospect, infielder George Lombard Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":78518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Make Decision on Trade Status of Top Prospect George Lombard Jr. - 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=78512\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Make Decision on Trade Status of Top Prospect George Lombard Jr. - 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