It's well known that the Yankees are looking for a guerrilla in the offseason, but there are only two big-name guerrillas left on the market, one is Carlos Correa, who has a festival with the Yankees, and the other is Trevo Story, who does not match the Yankees' direction.
But people are alive, and according to ESPN's well-known journalist Buster Olney, the Yankees have now come up with a solution that they may choose matt Chapman, the golden glove star guerrilla of the trading activists, to let him move to the guerrilla and become the Yankees' guerrilla for the new season.
Of course, this is just a conjecture, first of all, Chapman himself is not necessarily willing to take a guerrilla stand, but this incident does reflect another team idea of Yankees. In fact, Chapman has a major league guerrilla garrison record, two games in two years combined with 10 innings, and the rest of the time he is on third base.
Third baseman Chapman is arguably the best player in major leagues today, and since his 2017 debut, he is ahead of almost all major league third basemen in all defensive advancements, and only his senior, Nolan Arenado, will be equal to him.
While Chapman is an elite third baseman who looks like he's a guerrilla fighter, whether it's arm strength, range or ability, the major leagues do have few precedents for adjusting their position upwards. Rangers super-tool Gina Farefa moved to Guerrilla after picking up the Golden Gloves at third base last season, but various data companies have a mixed reputation for his guerrilla garrison. Drs feedback that his garrison in the guerrilla zone is still good, and Statcast thinks his garrison is the same.
So will the athletics give up on the team's cricket star? The answer is that it is very likely that the athletes will seek all the opportunities to slash their salaries in the new season, they have previously let go of the team's coach Bob Melvin, and Chapman will enter the second year of arbitration next year, and the expected $9.5 million salary is not low for the athletes.
However, Chapman himself has some hidden dangers, in the 18th and 19th seasons, Chapman's strike three-time is .263/.348/.507, 301 knocks 60 bombs and 78 second-base hits, but in the 20th and 21st seasons, his hits are only .215/.306/.431 hits, 188 knocks 37 hits and 24 second-base hits, OPS+ will exceed the league average. Too many volleys are key to Chapman's declining stats, his three-strike rate in the past two years has been as high as sixth in the league, and hip surgery in 2020 may be a potential factor in his poor data.
Another reason the Yankees were reluctant to give Correa a long date with Story was that their two youngsters, Oswald Perrazza and Anthony Volpe, were close to reaching the big league board. Of course, Nick Ahmed and Kinafarefa are not unable to do this kind of expediency, and if none of them come in the end, the Yankees' guerrilla for the new season is likely to be another third baseman, Gio Ursela.
(Text/Geng Haoyang)