NEW YORK — Good work if you can get it.

The Yankees hope, if all goes according to plan, to pay DJ LeMahieu $12 million this season to be, essentially, a part-time player, manager Aaron Boone told reporters on Tuesday.

Speaking at the 39th Annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner — where Boone was honored alongside third baseman Miguel Andujar and shortstop Didi Gregorius — Boone said that LeMahieu will mostly serve as insurance.

“Obviously having Troy Tulowitzki, he’s healthy,” Boone said. “But even best case scenario with Troy, having not really been on the field for a year and a half, he’s going to need days off. So we feel like in those situations, Gleyber (Torres) will be able to slide over to short that gets LeMaheiu — it allows us to really have a 10-, 11-man rotation for nine spots.

“It keeps everyone, we believe, playing regularly, but also able to keep guys fresh, hopefully more healthy over the long haul and a guy or two on the bench every night that’s a really good player.”

LeMaheiu’s yearly salary was the 12th-highest average annual salary given out in free agency this year, just behind reliever Andrew Miller ($12.5 million) and reliever David Robertson ($11.5 million).

Infielder Daniel Murphy was also given a two-year, $24-million deal, like LeMahieu.

LeMahieu, 30, has been a full-timer since 2014. He's won three Gold Gloves at second base and is a two-time All-Star.

The Yankees signed shortstop Troy Tulowitzki based off a pair of impressive workouts. General manager Brian Cashman and his top scouts decided Tulowitzki, even age age 35 and after missing all of 2018 due to injury, was too good of a deal to pass up on a major-league minimum contract. The Blue Jays will be on the hook for the $38 million he’s owed through the next two seasons since they cut him in December.

Tulowitzki missed all last year after having surgery to remove bone spurs on both his ankles. The Yankees hope he can take most of the reps at shortstop with Torres sliding over from second base on days Tulowitzki needs a break.

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