{"id":559158,"date":"2026-02-07T05:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559158\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:41:26","slug":"paul-goldschmidt-contract-yankees-finalizing-one-year-deal-for-veteran-1b-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559158\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Goldschmidt contract: Yankees finalizing one-year deal for veteran 1B, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Remember how just last week Yankees<\/a> general manager Brian Cashman was pushing back against the narrative<\/a> that his team is simply “running it back” with basically the same team from last season? Yeah, this won’t help. The Yankees are finalizing a deal to bring back free agent first baseman Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> on a one-year deal, according to\u00a0ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Goldschmidt, 38, is in the twilight of an amazing career that might one day land him in the Hall of Fame. Last season, he hit .274\/.328\/.403 (104 OPS+), but that was held up by a really hot start that didn’t last. In his last 90 games, Goldschmidt hit .223\/.274\/.330 and by the time the playoffs came around, he wasn’t a regular starter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The opening for playing time in 2026 for Goldschmidt would be the right-handed hitting side of a platoon at first base with lefty-swinging Ben Rice<\/a>. Rice hit just .208 against lefties last season, so there’s an opportunity for Goldschmidt to grab at-bats against tough lefties, at least to start the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To this point, Goldschmidt has played in parts of 15 MLB seasons. He’s a career .288\/.378\/.504 (137 OPS+) hitter with 2,190 hits, 477 doubles, 372 home runs, 1,232 RBI, 1,280 runs, 174 stolen bases and 63.8 WAR. The seven-time All-Star and 2022 NL MVP ranks 16th all-time in WAR among first basemen.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Remember how just last week Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was pushing back against the narrative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,731,4,62,118,73763,73762,73760,73761,4675],"class_list":["post-559158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-paul-goldschmidt-contract","tag-paul-goldschmidt-stats","tag-yankees-first-baseman","tag-yankees-paul-goldschmidt","tag-yankees-roster"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116027751852524502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559158","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=559158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}