Yankees finalizing trade with Giants for 2024 All-Star outfielder who mashes lefties

With an ever-growing list of needs and a confounding Luis Garcia Jr. trade that helped the offense (but didn't help the logjam), the New York Yankees are now working on another outfield alternative. As first reported by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the Yankees are attempting to push a trade across the finish line for San Francisco Giants outfielder Heliot Ramos.

Ramos, a 2024 All-Star, is more of a platoon bat against left-handed pitching these days than he is a consistent solution to the Yankees' Cody Bellinger void — and his defense could not be more distracting, in comparison to Belli's. He's in the midst of his third consecutive season of above-average offensive production, though (124, 108, 104), and he especially excels against left-handed pitching, with an .835 OPS and .292 average against southpaws this year. That's not quite Jo Adell levels of production, but it'll certainly play.

What might not play is his Jasson Domínguez-like defense at a position of need.

Yankees cannot afford to neglect catcher after landing plane on Heliot Ramos trade

Heading to the Giants in return is No. 5 pitching prospect Henry Lalane. The left-hander has rocketed up the charts this year with a promising run after dealing with injuries. He hasn't been healthy over the past three seasons, but has finally shown the Top 100 upside that has long been foretold over the past two months, fulfilling the promise we've long waited for.

In a heartwarming twist, the Yankees have also dealt Kaeden Kent, son of Hall of Famer Jeff, to his dad's old team.

Unfortunately for the Yankees, while they've now filled a need for a slugging right-handed bat who's controllable long-term, they still haven't added a catcher of any kind. Joel Sherman fired off the most terrifying tweet of the trade deadline a few minutes before the Ramos move, noting that the Yankees were struggling to find traction on catchers (even Henry Davis!) and might have moved on to other varieties of right-handed bats.

Ramos provides the offense the Yankees were seeking from the side of the plate they were digging through. He does NOT fill their unbelievably extreme need for a catcher to complement Austin Wells' defensive skills. It's impossible to view any move they make with full positivity until they also check off their most glaring need.

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