Joel Sherman on the external options at SS for the Yankees

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00:00there is no shortstop store on like 36th street in manhattan the best free agent shortstops

00:06available are beau bichette the industry in general does not believe is a shortstop now or

00:12will be a shortstop moving forward he's not very good on defense does ha sung kim opt out of his

00:17contract with the braves perhaps he does but he's been highly injured the last two years and he's

00:24got a low 90s ops plus these last two seasons and there's real questions is he a second baseman or

00:30a move them all around the diamond player and there's no kind of like obvious trade candidate

00:35you want to go to the top of the market and you say you're going to sign alex bregman who's been

00:38playing third base to play shortstop that doesn't seem like something financially the yankees would

00:42do or wise to do uh you know bregman's had a lot of lower half injuries going to be in his 30s now

00:47that doesn't seem like the right answer so to me this is at least initially an internal situation

00:54maybe something else small in the marketplace but caballero cabrera and maybe everyone's just

00:59keeping the seat warm long term for george lombard jr who perhaps comes on the radar late in 2026 but to

01:07me is probably more a 2027 thing if he's going to be a player or not for the yankees but he's probably

01:12their number one prospect as we speak today

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