{"id":568972,"date":"2026-02-12T22:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/568972\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:55:12","slug":"yankees-looked-into-nick-castellanos-trade-before-getting-mixed-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/568972\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees looked into Nick Castellanos trade before getting mixed reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees were talked out of pursuing Nick Castellanos.<\/p>\n

The team looked into trading for the Phillies slugger earlier this offseason, but backed off after receiving mixed reviews, according to The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, the Yankees brought back Paul Goldschmidt<\/a>, who will serve as a right-handed bat off the bench and spell the lefty-swinging Ben Rice at first base.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Yankees had also considered<\/a> Austin Slater, Randal Grichuk and Ty France to fill the righty bat role.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"KyleNick Castellanos #8 of the Philadelphia Phillies runs back to the dugout out between innings during a baseball game against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on August 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Castellanos, who was released by the Phillies<\/a> on Thursday after a turbulent 2025 season, could be a fit for the Padres, Jays, A\u2019s, Rangers, Royals and Reds, per Heyman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The veteran outfielder\/designated hitter, who turns 34 next month, posted full-season lows with a .250 average and an on-base percentage of .294.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And he wasn\u2019t exactly a model citizen in the locker room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After his release, Castellanos admitted on Instagram to bringing a beer into the Phillies\u2019 dugout after being removed from a game in Miami last June.<\/p>\n

At the time, Phillies manager Rob Thomson said his benching in the next game had to do with an \u201cinappropriate comment.\u201d<\/p>\n

In August, Castellanos appeared to call out Thomson, saying there was \u201cno conversation\u201d with his manager after he was pulled from a game for the slick-fielding Harrison Bader.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Shortly after the Phillies were eliminated by the Dodgers in the NLDS, Castellanos was rumored to be heading out of Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a day before news of his release, the team told Castellanos not to report to their spring training facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Castellanos, a two-time All-Star, has one year and $20 million remaining on a five-year, $100 million deal he signed after the 2021 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees were talked out of pursuing Nick Castellanos. The team looked into trading for the Phillies slugger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,8639,25,185,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-568972","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-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkyankees","14":"tag-nick-castellanos","15":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116060132579891340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568972","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=568972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}