Breaking: yankees favorite star ruled out for the rest of the season due to injury.

The New York Yankees acquired Anthony Rizzo three years ago in a surprise trade deadline move that many thought would spark their floundering 2021 team. While Rizzo did contribute, his main contributions were power, veteran presence, swings and misses, and lack of athleticism—all of which the Bombers already possessed.

It’s kind of insane that the Yankees will have spent more than $60 million on him after this season ends, three years later. In the meantime, they gave Josh Donaldson and Rizzo large, short-term contracts over the same time period while passing on some of the greatest free agents in the sport.

It was cool to pay Rizzo and Donaldson $115 million for a total of 513 games of below-average play when Corey Seager cost $325 million over ten years? In 363 games of MVP-caliber play, Seager has earned $97.5 million thus far. He also led his team to a World Series victory the previous year. All we’re doing is math.

But let’s get back to Rizzo. In the team’s June series against the Red Sox at Fenway Park, the seasoned first baseman sustained a fractured forearm. It was anticipated that he would be absent for approximately two months, and that appears to be the timeline. Ben Rice, making his big-league debut, has stepped in wonderfully in the interim.

Rice has slid a bit, though, and even before he got called up, nobody considered him as a possible everyday starter for a 2024 club with World Series chances. But there’s a need for that because … Rizzo also isn’t an everyday starter for a World Series club at this point in his career following the last couple of injuries he’s endured.

So what’s Rizzo’s situation with the Yankees as the trade deadline approaches? Will the Yankees upgrade him to first base (or anywhere else) and find a way to use him as a platoon option? Will they sell him and pocket the money? When he comes back, there’s no chance they DFA him, is there?