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Two days after Aaron Boone had acknowledged the Yankees’ need to tighten up their team defense, they acquired a solid glove to take over at third base in Friday’s trade with the Rockies for Ryan McMahon.
The Yankees still need more defensive consistency the rest of the way at shortstop from Anthony Volpe, who entered Friday’s series opener against the Phillies tied for the MLB lead at the position with 13 errors.
“I expect, and it needs to be, one of our strengths,” Boone said before the game. “Now bringing in a McMahon, and with Anthony, we need them to play, the way they’re capable of playing and how we expect them to play.
The Yankees acquired Ryan McMahon in a trade with the Rockies on Friday. Getty Images“And if they do, that becomes a strength, and we need that to happen.”
The Yankees were coming off another rough series in the field earlier this week against the first-place Blue Jays in Toronto, including four errors in Wednesday’s loss.
“Look, I think you go around the diamond with us, I think we have a number of really good defenders,” Boone said. “Obviously, we’re coming off a series where we did not play well. In that regard, our last game was not good at all, right? Probably cost us the game.
“But I also think it’s important to be like, ‘OK, that happened, what should happen moving forward?’ And it’s something that we work very hard on. We’ve got to continue to, and there’s no reason to think we can’t be a really good defensive club moving forward, which I think we have been for much of the year too, with some series mixed in here where we’ve made some mistakes.”
The Yankees’ 52 errors entering the weekend were the ninth-most in MLB.
New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe (11) throws to first base to force out Toronto Blue Jays’ Leo Jimenez in the third inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. APLeft fielder Jasson Domínguez also committed one of their four Wednesday night and also recently misjudged a liner against the Mets.
“I feel like he’s come a long way,” Boone said of Domínguez. “He’s made a couple of mistakes out there, probably in the Toronto series and the Mets series. But the Mets play, that can happen to the best. When they hit a rocket, sometimes it freezes you in your tracks if you don’t read it perfect.
“But I do feel like Jasson’s come a long way from where he was, certainly, at the end of last year and where he was in spring training. I feel like he’s done a lot of good things out there. He continues to work really hard at it. And I continue to maintain that day he becomes a finished product out there and has that true experience, he should end up being very good out there. There’s still some bumps in the road that have happened along the way, but I feel like he has come around.”
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