The Yankees are selling 19-year-old George Lombard Jr. to Double-A Somerset, in accordance with ESPN’s Jeff Passan.
Lombard, the highest farmhand within the crew’s system and a top-100 prospect, has gotten off to a stellar begin at Excessive-A Hudson Valley this season, slashing .329/.496/.488 with one homer, 13 RBI and 11 stolen bases. The pure shortstop has additionally recorded a 23-to-22 walk-to-strikeout ratio whereas spending just a few innings at second base and third base.
Drafted twenty sixth total in 2023, it’s not shocking to see Lombard attain Double-A at such a younger age. The Gulliver Preparatory product impressed members of the Yankees roster, teaching employees and entrance workplace in spring coaching as a first-time invitee to huge league camp.
“Great attitude. Really hard worker, really athletic,” Anthony Volpe, the Yankees’ huge league shortstop, mentioned after just a few weeks of working with Lombard. “The way he approaches every day, he’s very curious. I think he wants to get better and is very eager.”
“You can tell he’s been in a major league clubhouse before,” Aaron Boone added. “He’s an 80-makeup kid.”
Certainly, Lombard has frolicked round huge league clubhouses, as his dad, George Lombard Sr., performed for the Braves, Tigers, Satan Rays and Nationals from 1998-2006. Lombard Jr., born in 2005, wasn’t alive for many of his dad’s taking part in profession, however he tagged alongside when Lombard Sr. took minor league teaching jobs with the Purple Sox and Braves, after which a giant league gig with the Dodgers.
Lombard Sr. is now the Tigers’ bench coach.
“It’s helped me so much, both just being around my dad and listening to my dad talk about baseball, and then just being around the game and seeing how big leaguers go about their business and how they work,” the youthful Lombard mentioned throughout camp. “Watching that amount of baseball, just picking up little cues in the game, it’s helped me a ton.”
