{"id":348194,"date":"2025-12-14T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348194\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:27:13","slug":"yankees-re-signing-amed-rosario-on-2-5-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348194\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees re-signing Amed Rosario on $2.5 million contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees have yet to take a big swing this offseason, but they added a piece to their offense, agreeing on a deal to bring back Amed Rosario, The Post confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rosario will stay in The Bronx on a one-year, $2.5 million deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old arrived in a trade with Washington last July<\/a> and provided the lefty-heavy Yankees lineup a professional bat from the right side, as well as defensive versatility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll figure to play a similar role this season after putting up an .819 OPS against left-handed pitching last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AmedAmed Rosario is coming back to the Yankees. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

On defense, Rosario isn\u2019t a standout, but the Yankees trusted him enough to start him in playoff games at second and third base.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They still have the lefty-swinging Ryan McMahon<\/a> at third, who struggles against lefties (with a .534 OPS facing them last year) and strikes out a ton, but gives the Yankees the best defensive option at the position.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With Ben Rice pencilled in at first, Jazz Chisholm Jr. at second \u2014 at least for now \u2014 and Jos\u00e9 Caballero set to fill in for Anthony Volpe<\/a> at shortstop while Volpe recovers from offseason surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder, the Yankees infield will be able to use Rosario\u2019s versatility.<\/p>\n

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And Rosario also gives the Yankees another positive veteran presence. He developed a good relationship with Jasson Dom\u00ednguez after arriving at midseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the Winter Meetings last week in Orlando, Fla., general manager Brian Cashman said he was looking again to balance the offense, saying, \u201cI definitely want to give Aaron Boone some legitimate choices so he can match up when we\u2019re facing a left-handed starter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The GM added their lack of right-handed hitting was a \u201cvulnerability,\u201d no doubt referring to the fact not just to the infield, but with Austin Wells and perhaps J.C. Escarra behind the plate, Trent Grisham in the outfield, as well as Dom\u00ednguez, who is much more productive from the left side.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, they have one more piece, but still need to add an outfielder, with Cody Bellinger and Kyle Tucker \u2014 also both left-handed hitters \u2014 the biggest names on that market, and the addition of a righty-hitting catcher wouldn\u2019t be a surprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AmedAmed Rosario connects for a hit during the wild-card round of the playoffs. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Additionally, with Gerrit Cole, Carlos Rod\u00f3n and Clarke Schmidt all beginning the season on the IL, recovering from surgeries, they\u2019ll need more pitching.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But throughout the offseason, the Yankees have indicated they were pleased with their roster last season, despite their inability to handle the Blue Jays in the regular season and playoffs, so smaller moves were expected and Cashman said last week the free-agent market was moving at \u201cglacial speed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rosario\u2019s signing was first reported by the YES Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees have yet to take a big swing this offseason, but they added a piece to their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[32843,363,130885,369,99],"class_list":["post-348194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-amed-rosario","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348194","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=348194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}