{"id":580689,"date":"2026-02-19T08:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580689\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:16:20","slug":"paul-goldschmidt-flashes-his-power-in-encouraging-early-yankees-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580689\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Goldschmidt flashes his power in encouraging early Yankees sign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Observations from Yankees\u2019 spring training on Wednesday:<\/p>\n

Good as Goldy<\/p>\n

The Yankees brought back Paul Goldschmidt to crush lefties, and he did so Wednesday, taking Ryan Yarbrough deep in live batting practice shortly after Jos\u00e9 Caballero did the same.<\/p>\n

\"PaulNew York Yankees Paul Goldschmidt reacts while hitting live batting practice. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Bell\u2019 Ringer<\/p>\n

Cody Bellinger laced a comebacker at Ben Hess in live batting practice, but the pitching prospect was able to dance out of the way to avoid the friendly fire.<\/p>\n

Caught My Eye<\/p>\n

If Wednesday is any indication, Trent Grisham is going to be an accurate challenger in the automated ball-strike system (ABS). <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo beyond the box score with the Bombers\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Yankees by Greg Joyce, exclusively on Sports+.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The outfielder used multiple challenges in the same at-bat and was proven correct each time, turning strikes into balls against Hess, who turned the tables and challenged one pitch to turn a ball into a strike.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s Schedule<\/p>\n

The Yankees will hold their last full-squad workout before the Grapefruit League schedule begins Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Yankees\u2019 spring training on Wednesday: Good as Goldy The Yankees brought back Paul Goldschmidt to crush…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,1365,4,1690,62,2548,2547,118,185,151,122,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-580689","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-cody-bellinger","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-spring-training","18":"tag-trent-grisham","19":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116096309699589104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580689","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=580689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}