Jazz Chisholm Jr. spent his first four-plus massive league seasons in Miami, and he didn’t at all times have the best time there.
However with the second baseman returning to LoanDepot Park for the primary time since being traded to the Yankees final summer season, Chisholm is hardly including significance to a three-game sequence with the Marlins that begins on Friday.
One among baseball’s extra colourful and candid characters, Chisholm’s vibrant persona has been embraced within the Yankees’ clubhouse since final summer season’s swap, which despatched Abrahan Ramirez, Jared Serna and Agustín Ramírez to the Marlins. Nonetheless, the 27-year-old had a tough time becoming in amongst the Marlins’ veterans from 2020-2024.
Chisholm has brazenly talked about how the workforce took problem with the way in which he dressed, in addition to his distaste for Miguel Rojas. The creative infielder has informed tales about Rojas pouring milk in and reducing up pairs of Chisholm’s customized cleats as a rookie.
Again in spring coaching, the Bahamian-born Chisholm, who’s Black, informed The Athletic’s Chris Kirschner that he felt racial bias performed a component in him being ostracized in Miami, although different gamers on that workforce felt the rift stemmed extra from a conflict between old-school and new-school personalities.
No such divide has surfaced in New York. Whereas Aaron Boone will often inform Chisholm to be himself “within reason,” the infielder resides his greatest life with the Yankees.
“Everybody’s telling me to be myself [in New York]. Nobody really wants me to take my personality away, and they really love me being myself,” Chisholm added. “I’m super comfortable here. I wouldn’t want to go nowhere else, honestly.”
Chisholm has loved a robust season since these feedback, as he entered Thursday’s recreation in opposition to the Rays with a .244 common, .813 OPS, 18 dwelling runs, 49 RBI, 12 stolen bases and a 127 wRC+. He’s been even higher since coming back from an indirect pressure in early June, hitting .282 with an .874 OPS, 11 homers and 32 RBI previous to Thursday.
With Chisholm feeling cozier within the Yankees’ clubhouse and taking part in a number of the greatest baseball of his profession, he feels there’s no want for him to have a chip on his shoulder in opposition to the Marlins this weekend.
“Nope. No. For what? It’s Miami,” he stated. “I’m here doing what I gotta do.”
Chisholm added that he’s nonetheless shut with just a few Marlins, together with Xavier Edwards and Edward Cabrera. He additionally talked about Jesús Sánchez, however he was traded to the Astros on Thursday.
As for all of the vets Chisholm beefed with, they’re not on the Marlins. That features Rojas, a member of the Dodgers.
“They already cleared out,” Chisholm stated. “I don’t know nobody else.”
