While most of the baseball world looks at Ryan McMahon as a $16 million platoon bat, the New York Yankees are enamored with their trade deadline acquisition. They've raved about his defense, which is admittedly well-deserved praise. Unfortunately, most of that stellar glove work was erased by the putrid .208/.308/.333 line in pinstripes.
The Yankees believe there's more within the 31-year-old just waiting to be brought out. They think they're just the organization to unlock his untapped potential. McMahon broke in the bigs in 2017, and nearly a decade later, we're still talking about untapped potential?