{"id":624233,"date":"2026-03-15T00:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/624233\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:02:26","slug":"the-spencer-jones-tolerance-question-yankees-need-to-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/624233\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spencer Jones &#8216;tolerance&#8217; question Yankees need to answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 What if you had a player fall into the Venn diagram of Giancarlo Stanton\u2019s power, Jazz Chisholm Jr.\u2019s speed and Ryan McMahon\u2019s defensive ability?<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Jones is challenged to reach that heady amalgamation because Major League Baseball is ridiculously hard and he already is approaching his 25th birthday in May with zero MLB at-bats and no clear idea when he will get No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>But it is a reminder of what <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/10\/sports\/spencer-jones-gives-yankees-another-loud-reminder-of-his-tantalizing-promise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is tempting about Jones \u2014 perpetual prospect and trade candidate<\/a>, because those three players not only provide hints at his skill set, but also accentuate that if you have above-average major league tools in certain areas, there will be a tolerance for uncomfortable strikeout rates.<\/p>\n<p>Which gets us to a question I asked executives around the sport \u2014 at what strikeout rate is Jones a tolerable player if he brings the other skills \u2026 and at what is he not? Can you live with him at Chisholm\u2019s 27.9 percent? McMahon\u2019s 33.5? Stanton\u2019s 34.2?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 What if you had a player fall into the Venn diagram of Giancarlo Stanton\u2019s power, Jazz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,430,428,151,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-624233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkyankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-spring-training","18":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116230262612659581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}