New York Yankees' Corey Seager Trade Buzz is Pure Insanity

The New York Yankees are in desperate need of change this offseason, and fixing third base should be one of their top priorities.

Under no circumstances should Ryan McMahon open 2027 as the Yankees' starter at the hot corner. It would be a tremendous failure.

But who can New York find to replace him?

We've heard plenty of names floated as possibilities for the Yankees in the early stages of the hot stove, ranging from Teruaki Sato to Josh Jung.

However, a new, yet familiar name has emerged as a potential candidate: Corey Seager.

Jon Heyman of The New York Post has mentioned Seager as a possible target for the Yankees this winter, and allow me to vehemently disagree.

Yes, there was a time when Seager was one of the top players in baseball. He finished second in AL MVP voting as recently as 2023, helping lead the Texas Rangers to their first World Series championship.

Times have changed.

Seager is now 32 years old with an incredibly checkered injury history. He has hasn't played 150 games since 2022. He's appeared in 120 contests just once since then.

This past year, he slashed .227/.312/.424 with 20 home runs and 51 RBI over 436 plate appearances.

He is also smack dab in the middle of a 10-year, $325 million contract he signed with the Rangers back in December 2021. The deal expires in 2031 (with no options, by the way), and Seager is slated to earn $31.5 million each season.

The Yankees are already monitoring their payroll to begin with, so I highly doubt they would even consider a trade for Seager. But in the event that it does become a thing, they need to think better of it.

Why acquire an aging, declining, injury-prone player on such an expensive deal when you are trying to get younger? And you know Hal Steinbrenner by now: if New York lands Seager, that would be its only big move of the offseason, because Steinbrenner certainly isn't going to want to spend more cash.

A few years ago, I would have been in support of this. But not in Seager's current broken-down state, and not even if Texas is willing to eat a fair portion of the contract.

This would resemble Josh Donaldson all over again, and that's not an avenue the Yanks should be open to exploring.

Seager is a big name, but that's all he brings to the table at this point. Well, a big name and a fat contract. But production? Yeah, that's gone.