{"id":52832,"date":"2025-07-10T01:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52832\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T01:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:21:12","slug":"dj-lemahieu-couldnt-fend-off-the-specter-of-his-yankees-end-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52832\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ LeMahieu couldn’t fend off the specter of his Yankees end forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

It ends. It always ends. And it almost never ends well. Sometimes it\u2019s a travel team. Sometimes it\u2019s a high school team. The lucky ones, they keep getting to play kids games until well into adulthood, and sometimes get paid handsomely for the privilege, but even then there is a whiff of sadness when the end inevitably arrives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe this isn\u2019t it for DJ LeMahieu, who on Wednesday received the most dreaded three-letter diagnosis a baseball player can get: DFA. Designated for assignment<\/a>. Maybe there will be teams willing to make a deal with the Yankees in the next 10 days. Maybe they\u2019ll wait until he becomes a free agent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe there\u2019s even some hits left in his bat. There already have been 1,772 of them, scattered across a 15-year career. That is tied for 431st on the all-time list, and if that doesn\u2019t necessarily jump off the page at you, consider these two facts:\u00a0<\/p>\n

1. The other man at 431 is Shoeless Joe Jackson.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It ends. It always ends. And it almost never ends well. Sometimes it\u2019s a travel team. Sometimes it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,9143,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-52832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dj-lemahieu","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114826321837406144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}