{"id":20484,"date":"2024-12-25T09:12:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T09:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=20484"},"modified":"2024-12-25T09:12:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T09:12:35","slug":"breaking-former-mvp-turned-down-bigger-offers-to-join-yankees-per-mlb-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=20484","title":{"rendered":"Breaking!! Former MVP turned down bigger offers to join Yankees, per MLB insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>The New York Yankees will enter the 2025 season with a quartet of former MVPs, including first baseman Paul Goldschmidt.<\/p>\n<p>While the Yankees were seemingly in on some other options like Christian Walker and potentially Pete Alonso earlier in the offseason, they eventually settled on a shorter term deal with Goldschmidt.<\/p>\n<p>And, according to Jon Heyman of The New York Post, the 37-year-old had bigger offers in front of him. Instead, he opted to join the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least the Nats, Guardians and Diamondbacks were in for the ex-MVP, and word is, he turned down bigger offers. He and Carlos Santana, who signed a day later for 500K less back with his old Cleveland team, made the most financial sense (ultimately, they deemed Christian Walker and Pete Alonso too much loot),&#8221; Heyman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees agreed to a one-year deal worth $12.5 million to bring Goldschmidt to the The Bronx. Though he&#8217;s coming off a down season, he had a resurgent second half in which he posted a .799 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it was the right move to go after Goldschmidt over Santana will be something of debate during the 2025 season, but this does give the Yankees a chance to platoon Goldschmidt and promising 25-year-old Ben Rice at first base.<\/p>\n<p>While Rice struggled immensely against left-handed pitchers during his first season in the big leagues, Goldschmidt posted a strong .839 OPS against southpaws.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees offense is going to look very different from the one that returned to the World Series for the first time in 15 years, and they&#8217;re hoping to get the type of player Goldschmidt was during the second half of his down season.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>MORE MLB:<\/strong><\/em> Yankees&#8217; two-time All-Star predicted to sign $21M deal with Tigers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former MVP Paul Goldschmidt reportedly turned down bigger offers so he could sign with the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Breaking!! 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