
Aaron Boone has specific vision for Jazz Chisholm’s Yankees position this season
NY Post
TAMPA — Aaron Boone does not want Jazz to be on shuffle this season
The Yankees manager is planning on shifting Jazz Chisholm Jr. back to second base this year, and though he left the door open for him to return to third base after learning it on the fly last year, Boone wants him to have a permanent home once the season begins.
“I don’t want to get into bouncing him back and forth,” Boone said Tuesday after a workout at Steinbrenner Field. “But once we settle on what we’re doing [with the roster], then I’ll make that final call. But I just felt like him going to second, keeping the [Oswaldo] Cabrera, DJ [LeMahieu], [Oswald] Peraza, [Jorbit] Vivas, whoever else you want to throw in that mix, I felt like made more sense hashing it out at third.”
Chisholm is a natural shortstop who played mostly second base in 2021 and 2022 before shifting to center field in 2023 and the first half of 2024.
He moved to third base last summer after the Yankees acquired him from the Marlins. He made the transition look mostly seamless and graded out well there metrically — recording eight outs above average.
And though Boone believes Chisholm can “be elite at either position,” he thinks he has “a chance to be really dynamic in the middle with Anthony [Volpe].”

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