{"id":360416,"date":"2026-09-30T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360416\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:14:08","slug":"jazz-chisholm-jr-s-yankees-future-is-a-23-million-question-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360416\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Chisholm Jr.&#8217;s Yankees future is a $23 million question mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz Chisholm Jr. on talent alone would seem to be an easy call to receive a qualifying offer from a monied team like the Yankees, which hands them out liberally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But you have to wonder now whether Chisholm is a lock to get that bid, which is projected to be about $23M, from the Yankees. He was benched in Game 1 against left-handed starter Payton Tolle for the previously embattled Anthony Volpe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chisholm, who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/30\/sports\/jazz-chisholm-jr-s-postgame-body-language-says-it-all-after-sitting-yankees-game-1-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was upset last year to be benched<\/a> against a left-hander in the same wild-card round, wasn\u2019t heard from immediately after lineups were posted Tuesday. Chisholm did say Monday that he expected to start this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chisholm, who famously projected in spring training to NJ Advance Media that he was shooting to become <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/20\/sports\/yankees-jazz-chisholm-jr-not-shying-away-from-lofty-50-50-goal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the second 50-50 player<\/a> and could get $35M a year for seven or eight years as a free agent, had his worst statistical season. He had career lows in batting average (.231), slugging (.399), OPS (.711) and OPS+ (97). While he stole 41 bases, he hit only 19 home runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jazz Chisholm Jr. on talent alone would seem to be an easy call to receive a qualifying offer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37028,20,3473,9,11,10,321,319,428],"class_list":["post-360416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jazz-chisholm","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360416","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=360416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}