MLB · 1B · New York Yankees
Paul Goldschmidt
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 225 lb · born Wilmington, DE, USA · age 38 · draft 2009 rd 8 · played 1B 69, DH 13 · MLB debut 2011-08-01
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 5 G · .278 AVG · 2 HR · 4 RBI · .927 OPS
352 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestones this season
1,300 career runs scored — Tue, Jun 2 · night game vs. Cleveland Guardians The scorecard → · The write-up →
2,200 career hits — Thu, May 7 · day game vs. Texas Rangers The scorecard → · The write-up →
Scout’s note
Paul Goldschmidt is a 38-year-old first baseman from Wilmington, Delaware, an eighth-round pick in 2009 with 388 career home runs across 2,164 games. In his last 14 days at the MLB level, he has hit .250 with no RBI in three games — a quiet stretch for a man with 1,276.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95105.140
- Deserved (xVal)0.40170
- Got (aVal)0.40780
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.01429
today · 30 days ago, against the 340 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Free agent after this seasonA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $4.00M
- Tax hit
- $4.00M
- Service time
- 14 yr 59 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $4M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$4M (26) · agent Excel
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, New York Yankees.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $4.00M
- Guaranteed
- $4.00M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $4.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
Collect Paul Goldschmidt
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Umpire favor
+1.3 net runs over 44 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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