{"id":551955,"date":"2026-02-03T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/551955\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:04:17","slug":"yankees-news-yanks-interested-in-former-gold-glover-ty-france-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/551955\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Yanks interested in former Gold Glover Ty France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/mlb-rumors-free-agency-trades-yankees-mets-ty-france-diamondbacks-carlos-santana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CBS Sports | R.J. Anderson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CBS Sports | R.J. Anderson<\/a>: The Yankees are one of several teams interested in Ty France, per MassLive.com\u2019s Chris Cotillo. The Red Sox, Mets, Padres, and Diamondbacks are among the first baseman\u2019s other suitors. France slashed .257\/.320\/.360 last year in 138 games with the Twins and Blue Jays. This report comes on the heels of rumors that the Yankees have entertained a reunion with Paul Goldschmidt, indicating that adding a veteran, right-handed bat at first base to split time with the left-handed Ben Rice is a priority heading into spring training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/yankees-2026-spring-training-faq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MLB.com | Bryan Hoch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MLB.com | Bryan Hoch<\/a>: With spring training fast approaching, Hoch provides an FAQ for the Yankees\u2019 preseason operation. Pitchers and catchers are scheduled to report on February 11th, with position players following on February 15th. Fans can attend workouts at Tampa\u2019s George M. Steinbrenner Field free of charge. Several promising youngsters will receive an opportunity to showcase what they can do against major-league talent, including the team\u2019s consensus top prospect, George Lombard Jr., right-handers Elmer Rodr\u00edguez and Carlos Lagrange, and outfielder Spencer Jones. Spring games will begin on February 20th and, over the course of spring training, 25 matchups will be broadcast on YES Network or the Gotham Sports app.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/yankees-jazz-chisholm-jr-invests-in-bronx-students-with-computer-lab\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bronx Times | Keke Grant-Floyd;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bronx Times | Keke Grant-Floyd<\/a>: Through his namesake foundation, Jazz Chisholm Jr. has funded the development of a computer lab at an elementary school in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx. The Yankees\u2019 All-Star attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the lab at Community School 55, also known as the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, where he explained the genesis for this endeavor. \u201cI was raised in public school, and I\u2019m a kid from the hood that didn\u2019t really get as many opportunities as anybody else,\u201d Chisholm said. \u201cI want to be able to give kids all the opportunities that I can help with.\u201d The Jazz Chisholm Foundation supports youth in New York, Florida, and the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports | R.J. Anderson: The Yankees are one of several teams interested in Ty France, per MassLive.com\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,731,377,2554,10946,38,1628,16100,1363,101,4,72698,118,89,5055,151,282,70,2553,3197,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-551955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ben-rice","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-chris-cotillo","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-getty-images","15":"tag-jazz","16":"tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","17":"tag-mets","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-mlb-photos","20":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","21":"tag-red-sox","22":"tag-spencer-jones","23":"tag-spring-training","24":"tag-toronto","25":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","26":"tag-torontobluejays","27":"tag-ty-france","28":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116005901148368362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}