George Lombard Jr.NYY · SS

2026 review

George Lombard Jr. arrived as a prospect and hit for pop with swing-and-miss attached, going 36-for-152 with 7 HR, hitting .237 and slugging .414 in 152 AB while posting an OBP of .285, a 26.5 K% and a 6.0 BB% over 166 PA for NYY. His contract was selected Aug 4, and he started all 42 games he played, 23 games and 87 PA in Aug against 19 games and 79 PA in Sep. Drafted at NFBC ADP rank 917, he finished 964th of 1472 in the TDK LABS 5x5 value rank and 40th of 61 shortstops. The TDK LABS card moved with him: in early Aug it called him a top prospect handed the job with strong strike-zone judgment and pop, on too small a sample to judge, by early Sep it had him fighting the slump at the plate while treating him as the entrenched starter, by mid-Sep it had him back in the lineup after a benching, and by late Sep it was tracking a hot run at the plate with several home runs over a short stretch of games.

NFBC position eligibility · 2026: SS · 2027: SS