4 second base trade options Yankees should pursue after moving Jazz Chisholm to third

The Yankees could snag Luis Urías as the Athletics plummet in the standings

The young Athletics began the season surprisingly well, as their young bats came alive and started pounding the ball out of the minor league park they call home. However, pitching was always a question for the club, and a 1-9 record over their last 10 games to close out May has them looking firmly out of the race, sitting at 23-36.

The A's did what the Yankees probably should have done in the offseason, signingLuis Urías to a one-year, $1.1 million contract following his non-tender by the Seattle Mariners. The soon-to-be-28-year-old had spent the last two seasons as a seldom-used utility infielder, but prior to that, he had shown some promise as a young player with the Milwaukee Brewers.

In 2021, he socked 23 homers while batting .249/.345/.445 in 150 games for the Brew Crew. He followed that up with 16 homers and a .239/.335/.404 performance over 119 games in 2022.

After two years with sub-.200 averages where he played just 52 and 41 games, respectively, Urías seems back to his old form with a .244/.333/.407 line and six homers in 45 games.

With ample experience at both second and third, Urías would give the Yankees the option to flip-flop positions between he and Chisholm Jr., should the need arise. Though it should be noted that throughout his career, Urías has been a slightly below-average glove at both positions, and has posted -1 DRS and -2 OAA in his time at second base in 2025.

Urías doesn't have a long-term future with the A's, and his lack of recent track record should bring down the cost of a potential trade package. As a one-year rental making so little money, the financial cost of adding him to the roster would be negligible as well, something that should certainly make Hal Steinbrenner smile.

There's some risk with Urías, though. He went from striking out 31.2% of the time last season to cutting his K-rate in more than half this season, with the low mark of 15.1%. For his career, strikeouts have neither been a huge issue nor a huge positive in his game, with a roughly average 21.6% rate.

More concerning is whether or not he can keep this pace up. Leaving Seattle's unfriendly confines certainly helped, but the ballpark in Sacramento is known to inflate offensive performance as well. Given that it's been a few years since he was a consistent contributor, it's questionable how much of his production this year is just small sample size noise.

Still, he'd be a low-cost roll of the dice that would give the Yanks the positional flexibility to find the best possible alignment, which makes him an intriguing option.