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is producing at the best rate of his career, and the New York Yankees traded for him precisely because their stalled offense cannot afford to wait. The problem is that the roster he is joining has no clear spot for him.
Washington received Yovanny Cruz, Jake Bird, Ben Grable, and Jack Cebert in return, per ESPN's Jeff Passan. Garcia's case on the numbers Garcia, 26, is in his seventh season and has remade himself this year.
Across 104 games with the Washington Nationals, he is hitting .283 with a .313 on-base percentage, a National League-leading .560 slugging percentage, 23 home runs, 76 RBI, and a 134 wRC+.
Those numbers hold up under scrutiny. The Yankees, playing without Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger, and Giancarlo Stanton, needed exactly this kind of middle-of-the-order weight, and Garcia provides it.
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