{"id":125847,"date":"2026-02-07T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125847\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:38:08","slug":"yankees-bringing-back-paul-goldschmidt-on-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125847\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees bringing back Paul Goldschmidt on one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees really are running it back. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Goldschmidt and the Yankees are finalizing a one-year deal to bring him back to The Bronx, The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman confirmed Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman wrote Thursday that the Yankees remained interested in bringing back the right-handed-hitting first baseman but <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/05\/sports\/yankees-still-could-find-way-to-paul-goldschmidt-reunion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could face competition from the Padres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41828255;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37163020\" width=\"837\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/new-york-yankees-first-base-108949287.jpg\" alt=\"New York Yankees first base Paul Goldschmidt striking out swinging during a baseball game.\" class=\"wp-image-37163020\"  \/>New York Yankees first baseman Paul Goldschmidt is coming back on a one-year deal. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n<p>However, the seven-time All-Star is coming back to New York after hitting .274.\/.328\/.403  with 10 homers last season.<\/p>\n<p>Goldschmidt struggled down the stretch with a .245 batting average in the second half, but he was a lefty masher all year with a .981 OPS against southpaws.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees really are running it back. Paul Goldschmidt and the Yankees are finalizing a one-year deal to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,3473,9,11,10,321,51140,319],"class_list":["post-125847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}