{"id":109892,"date":"2025-11-24T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=109892"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:01:51","slug":"rumor-yankees-dubbed-suitor-corey-seager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/24\/rumor-yankees-dubbed-suitor-corey-seager\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Yankees Named Top Suitor for Rangers Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Yankees are no strangers to blockbuster trades, and there are rumors that another one is possibly in the works. According to <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/21\/sports\/corey-seager-linked-to-yankees-in-drastic-rangers-trade-scenario\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matt Ehalt of the New York Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Texas Rangers are looking to offload certain players in an attempt to cut their payroll for 2026. Ehalt names <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/seageco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corey Seager<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/degroja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob deGrom<\/a> as the most likely candidates, with both having salaries of over $30 million next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_84910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84910\" style=\"width: 777px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-84910\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/09\/USATSI_24077919_168403884_lowres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"777\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/09\/USATSI_24077919_168403884_lowres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/09\/USATSI_24077919_168403884_lowres-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/09\/USATSI_24077919_168403884_lowres-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/09\/USATSI_24077919_168403884_lowres-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/09\/USATSI_24077919_168403884_lowres-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/09\/USATSI_24077919_168403884_lowres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/09\/USATSI_24077919_168403884_lowres-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aug 25, 2024; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Texas Rangers shortstop Corey Seager (5) rounds the bases after hitting a home run during the eighth inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Yankees Rumors: Corey Seager Emerges as Trade Candidate<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acquiring Seager would not be all that crazy for the Yankees; their starting shortstop, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/volpean01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Volpe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/10\/23\/yankees-anthony-volpe-one-last-chance-in-new-york\/\" target=\"_self\">has barely developed over his first three seasons<\/a> in the Bronx and shows no signs of major improvement. On top of that, he is coming off a surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder and should miss at least the beginning of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cabaljo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jose Caballero<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/08\/26\/anthony-volpe-could-lose-starting-shortstop-job\/\" target=\"_self\">acquired at last year\u2019s trade deadline<\/a> from the Tampa Bay Rays, will likely be the Opening Day starter if no other moves are made.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reports say the Rangers can trade Corey Seager to cut payroll<\/p>\n<p>Yankees are not on Seager\u2019s no-trade list. It\u2019s believed the Yankees have what Texas needs in Anthony Volpe, Austin Wells and Ben Rice among other shortstops, catchers and pitchers<\/p>\n<p>(via <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Ken_Rosenthal<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Evan_P_Grant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Evan_P_Grant<\/a>) <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MuMp7RIElZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/MuMp7RIElZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Talkin&#8217; Yanks (@TalkinYanks) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkinYanks\/status\/1991673073196757386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>The Clock Is Ticking<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With six years left on the 10-year, $325 million deal that he signed with the Rangers in 2021, any team that would consider trading for Seager will have a win-now approach. The Yankees should definitely have this approach for 2026, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/colege01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerrit Cole<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/judgeaa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Judge<\/a> turning 36 and 34, respectively, and with their starting pitching poised to be one of the best rotations in MLB. Shortstop is one of, if not the, biggest weaknesses in New York\u2019s roster, so plugging that hole with a proven winner and superstar could do wonders for the lineup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As great as it sounds, the odds of this move coming to fruition are not great. The Yankees are already <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/18\/trent-grisham-accepts-yankees-qualifying-offer\/\" target=\"_self\">paying $22 million<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grishtr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trent Grisham<\/a>, $15 million to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lemahdj01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ LeMahieu<\/a> (who is off the roster), and $19 million to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/stantmi03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>. The chances of getting $41 million of production from Grisham and Stanton are not high, and if the Yankees are <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/11\/cody-bellinger-free-agent-analysis\/\" target=\"_self\">actively pursuing<\/a> either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bellico01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cody Bellinger<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tuckeky01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Tucker<\/a> to play the outfield, they\u2019ll be even more unlikely to make a move to acquire Seager and his $31.5 million price tag.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Sticking With Volpe<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, the Yankees still seem to be keen on Volpe. They chose Volpe over Seager in 2021 when the latter was a free agent and the former was still a prospect, and they probably aren\u2019t going to change their mind now, despite how little Volpe has been able to produce offensively. General manager Brian Cashman blamed Volpe\u2019s struggles, particularly his defensive miscues, on the partially torn labrum that he sustained in May, which definitely affected his performance throughout the season. It is unclear exactly how long they will continue to make excuses for the 24-year-old, but it looks like they plan to start Volpe at shortstop until further notice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, the Yankees have to at least consider what trading for Seager could do for the franchise; it would single-handedly make them an instant contender in the American League, and it would solve the problem that they\u2019ve had at shortstop since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gregodi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Didi Gregorius<\/a> departed after the 2019 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees are no strangers to blockbuster trades, and there are rumors that another one is possibly in the works. According to Matt Ehalt of the New York Post, the Texas Rangers are looking to offload certain players in an attempt to cut their payroll for 2026. Ehalt names Corey Seager and Jacob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5148,"featured_media":105926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1071,35,18],"tags":[501,3461,899,104,611,220,6273,28376,2319,3226],"class_list":["post-109892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","category-rangers","tag-aaron-judge","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-corey-seager","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-jose-caballero","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-trent-grisham"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109900,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109892\/revisions\/109900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}