Paul Goldschmidt is headed back to the Bronx.<\/p>\n
The veteran first baseman is finalizing a one-year contract to return to the New York Yankees, according to the New York Post’s Joel Sherman<\/a>. Goldschmidt reportedly had offers for more money from other teams, but decided to return to New York.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Goldschmidt first joined the Yankees last year on a one-year, $12.5 million deal after six years with the St. Louis Cardinals. In his age-37 season, his production was below his career norms, with a .274\/.328\/.403 slash line, 45 RBI and 10 homers in 146 games.<\/p>\n This year, the former MVP figures to provide the right-handed side of a platoon at first base alongside left-handed Ben Rice, the part-time catcher who broke out at the plate last year. Goldschmidt, a four-time Gold Glove winner at first, could also make appearances as a defensive replacement in the later innings.<\/p>\n [Get more Yankees news: New York team feed<\/a>]<\/p>\n This deal checks one of the final boxes on the Yankees’ offseason to-do list. The team’s big moves of the offseason have so far been retaining outfielders Cody Bellinger and Trent Grisham, the former on a five-year, $162.5 million deal<\/a> and the latter on the $22 million qualifying offer<\/a>. It also acquired pitching depth with a trade for Miami Marlins starting pitcher Ryan Weathers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Yankees still had use for a right-handed bench bat, though, and Goldschmidt, a likely Hall of Famer, fit the bill well. It’s unclear how much longer he’s going to play, but he remains an above-average hitter and a solid clubhouse presence.<\/p>\n New York currently holds the second-best World Series odds in MLB at BetMGM at +1000, behind only the Los Angeles Dodgers (+225).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Goldschmidt is headed back to the Bronx. The veteran first baseman is finalizing a one-year contract to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[18215,49,48,8298,187748,41211,487,3981,462,3430,23762,18213,145903,82,3982,8294,1505],"class_list":["post-458789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ben-rice","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-jim-mcisaac","tag-joel-sherman","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-post","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-trent-grisham","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}