{"id":500074,"date":"2026-02-26T04:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500074\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:55:10","slug":"yankees-sign-randal-grichuk-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500074\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Sign Randal Grichuk To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees are in agreement with veteran outfielder\u00a0Randal Grichuk<\/a> on a minor league contract, reports Jack Curry of The Yes Network<\/a>. The Paragon Sports International client will be in camp as a non-roster invitee.<\/p>\n

Joel Sherman of The New York Post reported this week that the Yankees continued to look for a righty-hitting platoon bat<\/a>. Grichuk fits the bill without commanding a guaranteed roster spot. The 34-year-old will try to play his way into a spot on Aaron Boone\u2019s bench during Spring Training. If he does, he\u2019d take at-bats from Trent Grisham<\/a> against left-handed pitching.\u00a0Cody Bellinger<\/a> is one of the best left-on-left hitters in MLB, so he\u2019d play center field with Grichuk drawing into the corner opposite Aaron Judge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Grichuk isn\u2019t coming off a great season. He\u2019d hit at a league average level for the Diamondbacks and was traded to the Royals at the deadline. His bat cratered in Kansas City, leaving him with a .228\/.273\/.401 slash line across 293 trips to the plate. That included an underwhelming .227\/.273\/.430 mark in 183 plate appearances with the platoon advantage.<\/p>\n

The 11-year MLB veteran had destroyed lefty pitching in the three preceding seasons. Between 2022-24, he put up a .317\/.367\/.573 mark against southpaws. He connected on 25 home runs, 34 doubles and four triples in fewer than 500 plate appearances. He had the fifth-highest OPS against lefties over that stretch (min. 450 PAs).<\/p>\n

That version of Grichuk would obviously be an excellent piece to have off the bench. His strikeout rate against lefties climbed nearly seven percentage points a year ago, so there\u2019s no guarantee he\u2019ll get back to his 2022-24 form. He\u2019s not going to get a huge sample of short side platoon at-bats during Spring Training, leaving the Yankees with an interesting call in whether to have him round out their bench.<\/p>\n

Jasson Dom\u00ednguez<\/a> already looked likely to begin the season in Triple-A. If Grichuk makes the team, that\u2019s an inevitability barring multiple Spring Training injuries. It\u2019d leave the Yankees with a very right-handed bench. Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> and\u00a0Amed Rosario<\/a> are locks, leaving backup catcher J.C. Escarra<\/a> as the only lefty bench bat in that scenario.\u00a0Oswaldo Cabrera<\/a> would either start the season in Triple-A or on the injured list, while out-of-options Jorbit Vivas<\/a> would be traded or placed on waivers.<\/p>\n

The Yankees probably need to carry Grichuk on the Opening Day roster to keep him in the organization. He\u2019s an Article XX(b) free agent \u2014 a veteran who finished last season on an MLB roster. Those players who sign non-roster invites have three guaranteed opt-out dates under the collective bargaining agreement: five days before Opening Day, May 1, and June 1. Grichuk can return to the open market at the end of Spring Training if he doesn\u2019t break camp with New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are in agreement with veteran outfielder\u00a0Randal Grichuk on a minor league contract, reports Jack Curry of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,21283,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-500074","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-mlb","11":"tag-randal-grichuk","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500074","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=500074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}