{"id":125900,"date":"2026-02-07T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125900\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:52:11","slug":"paul-goldschmidt-and-new-york-yankees-working-toward-1-year-contract-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125900\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Goldschmidt and New York Yankees working toward 1-year contract, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/paul-goldschmidt-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees<\/a> are working toward a one-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press, another move by New York that makes its 2026 roster resemble last year&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The person spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because the agreement was subject to a successful physical. The deal likely would be for $5 million or less, the person said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">A seven-time All-Star and the 2022 NL MVP, the 38-year-old Goldschmidt hit .274 with 10 homers, 45 RBIs and a .731 OPS after signing a $12.5 million, one-year contract as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">He tailed off badly, hitting .287 with eight homers, 36 RBIs and a .776 OPS before the All-Star break and .245 with two homers, nine RBIs and a .631 OPS after. The right-handed-hitting Goldschmidt lost playing time at first to lefty-batting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/ben-rice-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Rice<\/a> and started just two postseason games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">A seven-time Gold Glove winner, Goldschmidt provides defense and a veteran presence to a team seeking its first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/world-series\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a> title since 2009. He has a .288 average with 372 homers, 1,232 RBIs and an ,882 OPS in 15 major league seasons with Arizona (2011-18), St. Louis (2019) and the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Coming off an AL Division Series loss to Toronto, New York has had a relatively quiet offseason. The Yankees&#8217; major moves were re-signing outfielder\/first baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/cody-bellinger-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cody Bellinger<\/a> to a $162.5 million, five-year contract,acquiring left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/ryan-weathers-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Weathers<\/a> from Miami in a trade and retaining center fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/trent-grisham-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trent Grisham<\/a> with a $22,025,000 qualifying offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Paul Goldschmidt and the Yankees are working toward a one-year contract, a person familiar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48671,13917,996,9,11,10,321,51140,46142,5390,2688],"class_list":{"0":"post-125900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-ben-rice","9":"tag-cody-bellinger","10":"tag-major-league-baseball","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","16":"tag-ryan-weathers","17":"tag-trent-grisham","18":"tag-world-series"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125900","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=125900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}