{"id":6185,"date":"2026-08-05T08:07:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:07:47","slug":"george-lombard-jr-has-long-prepared-for-the-yankees-challenge-now-facing-him-bred-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6185","title":{"rendered":"George Lombard Jr. has long prepared for the Yankees challenge now facing him: &#8216;Bred for this&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Consider the overwhelming praise from a teammate. Trent Sellers had played alongside George Lombard Jr. for a couple of months in 2024 and a few months in 2025 when he had seen enough to make a prediction.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6183\">George Lombard Jr.\u2019s Yankees debut comes with slick double play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is the next Derek Jeter,\u201d Sellers, a right-handed pitching prospect, said from Double-A Somerset last year. \u201cHe is so, so good, and he\u2019s so young. He\u2019s going to be a Hall of Famer one day. That\u2019s what I believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consider the overwhelming praise from a former coach and teacher. Isaac Tijerino coached Lombard in baseball from sixth grade through his senior year of high school and was also his physical education teacher at Gulliver Prep in Pinecrest, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6181\">George Lombard Jr. gives the Yankees everything they\u2019d been missing in dazzling debut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was such a good kid \u2014 the type of kid that you want your daughter dating, marrying,\u201d Tijerino said over the phone Tuesday. \u201cWhen scouts were calling me about him, that was my description about the type of kid he was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6179\">George Lombard Jr.\u2019s brother hits first pro homer minutes after Yankees prospect\u2019s blast in eerie coincidence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees have promoted 21-year-old shortstop prospect George Lombard Jr. to the majors, optioning Anthony Volpe to clear room on the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-yankees"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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