The Yankees plan to fix Ryan McMahons unique flawin first offseason together

The Yankees talk about Ryan McMahon — who turns 31 this weekend and is entering his 10th major league season — the way many talk about toolsy top prospects looking to break through.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

“I think now with us getting the full spring training with him, a winter working with him, maybe we can unlock some things,” general manager Brian Cashman said this week about the third baseman’s bat.“I feel like there’s a real two-way player in there,” manager Aaron Boone said at the Winter Meetings.“And hopefully we can help him make little adjustments here that unlock all that.”In the not-so-distant past, the Yankees had success in bringing over players from the often-dismal and analytically behind-the-curve Rockies with Mike Tauchman and DJ LeMahieu enjoying their best seasons in pinstripes.

Could McMahon, given a full season in The Bronx, be next?It would be rare for a player as veteran as McMahon — with more than 1,000 games played over nine seasons in which he has never registered an OPS that is above average — to reach another level at this stage, but the Yankees are hopeful the deadline pickup from Colorado can be more than his excellent glove.The work toward maximizing his swing has begun.“He and our hitting guys have really had some good conversations as he’s starting in to our hitting program now this winter,” Boone said this week.

“He’s a tremendous athlete, real power.Feel like knows the strike zone pretty well.“There’s some things he does in his swing that get him in trouble a little bit, but it would not surprise me at all to see him go to a different level offensively.”The biggest flaw in McMahon’s swing is an obvious one: No one swings and misses more.

But McMahon is somewhat unique in his whiffing profile: He does not chase outside the strike zone often.McMahon is a patient slugger wit...