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New York Yankees second base DJ LeMahieu (26) grounds out Athletics’ Max Muncy (10) during the sixth … More inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 28, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. After a 60-game season in 2020 ended with a one-run loss in Game 5 of the Division Series to the Tampa Bay Rays, the Yankees were fairly quiet in the offseason. As the calendar flipped to 2021, the one apparent move was figuring out how to keep DJ LeMahieu, whose first two seasons with the Yankees saw him finish behind Tim Anderson for the AL batting title and win the batting title in the shortened season. It was a no-brainer at the time and often moves like the six-year, $90 million contract are made more for the present tense and not for the encompassing trip a career can take as a player ages. Due to age and various injuries the Yankees rarely saw anything close to 2019 and 2020 and the end occurred Tuesday when he was designated for assignment with about $22 million remaining on the contract. It was one of those moves where the writing was on the wall when a day earlier, manager Aaron Boone said Jazz Chisholm Jr. was going back to second base and LeMahieu was coming off the bench and not an option for third base It was hard to envision many at-bats for LeMahieu, who was hitting .266 with 29 of his 34 hits being singles and limited range at second base where he did not make an error in any of the 143 chances on balls hit within his vicinity but also was unable to move on balls well out of his range. “I made the decision that I thought…

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