{"id":459527,"date":"2026-02-07T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459527\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:19:09","slug":"yankees-to-re-sign-paul-goldschmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459527\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees To Re-Sign Paul Goldschmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees are reportedly in agreement with\u00a0Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> on a one-year deal. Salary specifics aren\u2019t known, although it\u2019s reportedly expected to come in around $5MM or less. The Yankees have a full 40-man roster and will need to make a corresponding move once this deal becomes official. Goldschmidt is represented by Excel Sports Management.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be Goldschmidt\u2019s second season in the Bronx. The former MVP signed a $12.5MM deal last offseason to serve as New York\u2019s everyday first baseman. The role will be different this year, as Goldschmidt seems ticketed for more of a short side platoon job after Ben Rice<\/a> outplayed him last season. The left-handed hitting Rice connected on 26 homers with a .255\/.337\/.499 batting line across 530 trips to the plate.<\/p>\n

Goldschmidt managed only 10 home runs in a similar amount of playing time. His .274\/.328\/.403 slash was a little better than league average. It came with dramatic splits, both in terms of handedness and timeliness. Goldschmidt started his Yankee tenure on a tear, hitting .338\/.394\/.495 with six longballs through the end of May. That plummeted to a .226\/.277\/.333 performance over the final four months of the season. It was essentially an inverse of his 2024 campaign in St. Louis. Goldschmidt started that year very slowly before picking it up in the second half.<\/p>\n

Between his late-season struggles and Rice\u2019s breakout year, the seven-time All-Star lost playing time as the season progressed. His plate appearance tally dropped in each month. Goldschmidt will remain in the lineup against left-handed pitching, as he continued to tee off on southpaws even as his numbers against righties dropped. He\u2019s coming off a .336\/.411\/.570 slash against left-handers compared to a .247\/.289\/.329 mark when he didn\u2019t hold the platoon advantage. Seven of his 10 home runs came off lefties even though he saw twice as many plate appearances versus right-handers.<\/p>\n

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Rice had seven homers in 119 plate appearances against lefties, but it came with a .208 average and .271 on-base mark. Even if the Yankees don\u2019t want to make him a strict platoon bat, they\u2019ll time some of his rest days against tough southpaws. Goldschmidt can pick up those at-bats and offers a fallback at designated hitter in case Giancarlo Stanton<\/a> misses time. Lefty-hitting catcher\u00a0Austin Wells<\/a> had reverse splits last season but is a career .218\/.282\/.360 hitter against southpaws. If the Yankees want to continue giving Rice scattered reps behind the plate, they could shield Wells from a lefty and start Goldschmidt at first.<\/p>\n

At 38, Goldschmidt is clearly on the downswing of what should be a Hall of Fame career, but he can still be productive if deployed in a more limited role. He\u2019s also highly respected off the field and was just named to the U.S. World Baseball Classic roster for the third time in his career. He clearly made a strong impression in the clubhouse and with the coaching staff.<\/p>\n

The late-season drop in playing time evidently didn\u2019t sour him on giving it another go in pinstripes. Joel Sherman of The New York Post<\/a> reports that he passed on more money from other teams to remain in the Bronx. The Padres were reportedly\u00a0among the finalists<\/a> as they look for one more bat after agreeing to a deal with Miguel Andujar<\/a>.\u00a0The Diamondbacks spent most of the offseason looking for a right-handed hitting first baseman. A reunion in the desert seemed to make sense, but it was clear that wouldn\u2019t come to pass when the Snakes agreed to terms<\/a> with Carlos Santana<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n

New York has a lineup that skews to the left side generally. GM Brian Cashman and manager Aaron Boone had spoken multiple times about wanting to add a righty bat for balance. Goldschmidt joins utility infielder Amed Rosario<\/a> as righty options off the bench. Jos\u00e9 Caballero<\/a> would also be in that mix if\u00a0Anthony Volpe<\/a> reclaims the shortstop job once he returns from shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to carry lefty-hitting J.C. Escarra<\/a> as a backup catcher. That would only leave one bench spot for Oswaldo Cabrera<\/a> and\u00a0Jasson Dom\u00ednguez<\/a> if everyone gets through camp healthy. The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman<\/a> wrote on Thursday that it seems likely Dom\u00ednguez will be optioned to Triple-A to begin the season. That\u2019s even more probable with Goldschmidt back, though Spring Training injuries could certainly change the picture.<\/p>\n

The salary remains unreported. The Yankees will pay a 110% tax on it as third-time CBT payors in the top bracket. RosterResource<\/a> calculated their competitive balance tax number around $330MM before this deal. They had a $320MM tax payroll last year, leaving them with a nearly $62MM bill at season\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a> first reported the Yankees and Goldschmidt were finalizing an agreement. Ronald Blum of The Associated Press<\/a> reported that Goldschmidt was likely to make no more than $5MM. Image courtesy of Jeff Curry, Imagn Images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are reportedly in agreement with\u00a0Paul Goldschmidt on a one-year deal. Salary specifics aren\u2019t known, although it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,81447,462,18213,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-459527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-jasson-dominguez","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459527","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=459527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}