{"id":289177,"date":"2025-11-13T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/289177\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:31:11","slug":"retire-or-run-it-back-for-justin-verlander-max-scherzer-more-aging-mlb-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/289177\/","title":{"rendered":"Retire or Run It Back for Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, More Aging MLB Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Age: 38<br \/>Stats: 534 PA, 104 OPS-plus, .274\/.328\/.403, 42 XBH (10 HR), 45 RBI<br \/>WAR: 1.2<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Paul Goldschmidt hit .338\/.394\/.495 over the first two months of the 2025 season after signing a one-year, $12.5 million deal with the Yankees during the offseason, but his production dropped significantly in the months that followed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He hit just .226\/.277\/.333 with four home runs in 302 plate appearances the rest of the way, and his <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/savant-player\/paul-goldschmidt-502671?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">batted-ball metrics<\/a> displayed decline across the board in his quality of contact. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Goldschmidt is going to have to take a pay cut, and he might also need to accept more of a platoon role after hitting much better against lefties (168 PA, .336 BA, .981 OPS) than righties (366 PA, .247 BA, .619 OPS), but he is still a solid contributor and one who is still chasing his first World Series ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Age: 38Stats: 534 PA, 104 OPS-plus, .274\/.328\/.403, 42 XBH (10 HR), 45 RBIWAR: 1.2 Paul Goldschmidt hit .338\/.394\/.495&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-289177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}