{"id":342175,"date":"2025-12-11T02:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342175\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:14:07","slug":"veteran-outfielder-mike-yastrzemski-signs-a-2-year-deal-with-the-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342175\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran outfielder Mike Yastrzemski signs a 2-year deal with the Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The Atlanta Braves signed veteran outfielder Mike Yastrzemski to a two-year deal on Wednesday that includes a club option for 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Yastrzemski hit .233 with 17 home runs and 46 RBIs in 146 games last year between San Francisco and Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Yastrzemski, who spent the first six-plus seasons of his career with the Giants before being sent to the Royals in July, will make $9 million in 2026 and $10 million in 2027. Atlanta holds a club option for 2028. Yastrzemski will make $7 million if the Braves pick up the option. He will receive a $4 million buyout if they do not.<\/p>\n<p>The versatile Yastrzemski, the grandson of Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, can play all three outfield positions and is a career .238 hitter. His best season came in the COVID-19-shortened 2020 campaign, when he batted .297 with 10 homers in 54 games and finished in the top 10 in NL MVP voting.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The Atlanta Braves signed veteran outfielder Mike Yastrzemski to a two-year deal on Wednesday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2111,1558,2356,9092,681,4412,15961,152186,40812,6747,363,2008,9602,5284,99],"class_list":["post-342175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-ga-state-wire","tag-georgia","tag-kansas","tag-ks-state-wire","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-mike-yastrzemski","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-san-francisco","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342175","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=342175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}