{"id":362005,"date":"2025-12-21T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362005\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:32:10","slug":"source-yankees-keep-paul-blackburn-on-1-year-2-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362005\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Yankees keep Paul Blackburn on 1-year, $2 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right-handed reliever <a data-player-guid=\"1db1a97c-9cb4-e02b-1ed3-3ddb4c5482c9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32776\/paul-blackburn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Blackburn<\/a> will stay with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2b9cedf3-ce60-0bcf-fafe-8cd055255685\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> on a one-year, $2 million deal, a source confirmed to ESPN on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal includes $2 million guaranteed, plus up to $500,000 in innings incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn, 32, joined the Yankees in August, one week after he was cut by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d08426cc-bf13-5d7b-5217-6d4662019bc6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a>, with whom he went 0-3 with a 6.85 ERA in 23\u2154 innings. He made eight appearances for the Yankees, posting a 5.28 ERA in 15\u2153 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47325229\/mlb-offseason-2025-26-free-agency-rumors-update-passan-tucker-bellinger-bregman-bichette-valdez\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/1218\/r1590856_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blackburn is 22-31 with a 4.97 ERA in 101 games (86 starts) since debuting with the A&#8217;s in 2017. He made his lone All-Star team in 2022, when he went 7-6 with a 4.28 ERA in 21 games for the A&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>MLB Network was first to report Blackburn&#8217;s deal with the Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-handed reliever Paul Blackburn will stay with the New York Yankees on a one-year, $2 million deal, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-362005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}