{"id":580747,"date":"2026-02-19T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580747\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:02:39","slug":"paul-goldschmidt-flashes-power-in-encouraging-early-yankees-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580747\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Goldschmidt flashes power in encouraging early Yankees sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:NY Post Sports;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"NY Post Sports\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"121\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Light_8985.png\"\/><\/a>Thu, February 19, 2026 at 3:09 AM UTC<img alt=\"Paul Goldschmidt of the New York Yankees reacts while hitting live batting practice at Steinbrenner Field.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"828\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0affd1741c9aab5f9991180c59634cdf.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2\/12\/26 \u2013 New York Yankees Paul Goldschmidt reacts while hitting live batting practice during today\u0092s workout at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida. Photo by Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Observations from Yankees\u2019 spring training on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p>Good as Goldy<\/p>\n<p>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<p><img alt=\"New York Yankees Paul Goldschmidt reacts while hitting live batting practice. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"762\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f2863fc3382bdf9549e057da905bfe11.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>New York Yankees Paul Goldschmidt reacts while hitting live batting practice. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Bell\u2019 Ringer<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Caught My Eye<\/p>\n<p>If Wednesday is any indication, Trent Grisham is going to be an accurate challenger in the automated ball-strike system (ABS).<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Thursday\u2019s Schedule<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees will hold their last full-squad workout before the Grapefruit League schedule begins Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, February 19, 2026 at 3:09 AM UTC 2\/12\/26 \u2013 New York Yankees Paul Goldschmidt reacts while hitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,3180,48103,1365,1965,4,1690,10147,62,2548,2547,118,4581,122,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-580747","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-batting-practice","10":"tag-charles-wenzelberg","11":"tag-cody-bellinger","12":"tag-jose-caballero","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-post","16":"tag-new-york-yankees","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkyankees","19":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","20":"tag-ryan-yarbrough","21":"tag-trent-grisham","22":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116096490794523664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580747","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=580747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}