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New York Yankees first baseman Paul Goldschmidt is coming back on a one-year deal. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\nThe Yankees really are running it back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Add Paul Goldschmidt to the list of returning players to The Bronx after the Yankees agreed to a one-year deal with the veteran first baseman, sources told The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Goldschmidt gives the Yankees a right-handed bat who can fill in for lefty-swinging Ben Rice, who is expected to be the primary first baseman this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees first baseman Paul Goldschmidt is coming back on a one-year deal. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n
Goldschmidt, the 2022 National League MVP with the Cardinals, first signed with the Yankees last offseason and got off to a good start before he fell off in the second half.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But he remains solid defensively and gives the Yankees some much-needed balance in an infield that skews lefty, with Rice, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Ryan McMahon all hitting from the left side, along with catcher Austin Wells and outfielders Cody Bellinger and Trent Grisham.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Goldschmidt also should be a valuable mentor to Rice, who is still learning how to play first base after coming up through the Yankees system primarily as a catcher \u2014 where he may still get time, along with Wells and possibly J.C. Escarra.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although the 38-year-old Goldschmidt\u2019s performance fell off in the second half, he still ended the season with an OPS of .981 against left-handed pitching and he can also serve as a defensive replacement for Rice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Goldschmidt was also highly respected in the clubhouse and expressed a desire to return after the Yankees were knocked out of the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll rejoin a team that will look very similar to last year, as the Yankees\u2019 biggest moves of the offseason have been bringing back Grisham<\/a> on a qualifying offer worth just north of $22 million and re-signing Bellinger on a five-year, $162 million deal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n They\u2019ll hope the continued development of young players like Rice and Wells, along with the return of Gerrit Cole from Tommy John surgery by midseason and a full season of their acquisitions at last year\u2019s trade deadline will put them in position to at least get back to the postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n The bench now consists of Goldschmidt, Amed Rosario and perhaps Escarra and Jasson Dom\u00ednguez \u2014 unless the Yankees find a right-handed bat for the outfield, since the switch-hitting Dom\u00ednguez struggles from the right side and in left field.\u00a0<\/p>\n And to start the season, Jos\u00e9 Caballero figures to fill in for Anthony Volpe at shortstop while Volpe recovers from offseason surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2014 Additional reporting by Jon Heyman\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees really are running it back.\u00a0 Add Paul Goldschmidt to the list of returning players to The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,2046,1690,62,2548,2547,118,185,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-562131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-free-agency","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116039843963430042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562131","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=562131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Paul](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10-05-25-new-york-112906672.jpg\")
Paul Goldschmidt joined the Yankees last season. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n