{"id":439094,"date":"2025-12-11T02:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439094\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T02:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:14:12","slug":"veteran-outfielder-mike-yastrzemski-signs-a-2-year-deal-with-the-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439094\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran outfielder Mike Yastrzemski signs a 2-year deal with the Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The Atlanta Braves signed veteran outfielder Mike Yastrzemski to a two-year deal on Wednesday that includes a club option for 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Yastrzemski hit .233 with 17 home runs and 46 RBIs in 146 games last year between San Francisco and Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Yastrzemski, who spent the first six-plus seasons of his career with the Giants before being sent to the Royals in July, will make $9 million in 2026 and $10 million in 2027. Atlanta holds a club option for 2028. Yastrzemski will make $7 million if the Braves pick up the option. He will receive a $4 million buyout if they do not.<\/p>\n<p>The versatile Yastrzemski, the grandson of Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, can play all three outfield positions and is a career .238 hitter. His best season came in the COVID-19-shortened 2020 campaign, when he batted .297 with 10 homers in 54 games and finished in the top 10 in NL MVP voting.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The Atlanta Braves signed veteran outfielder Mike Yastrzemski to a two-year deal on Wednesday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":439095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1280,591,276,10104,4353,19785,49612,181121,69656,9540,1266,1822,21719,2750,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-439094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-ga-state-wire","12":"tag-georgia","13":"tag-kansas","14":"tag-ks-state-wire","15":"tag-local-news-for-apple","16":"tag-mike-yastrzemski","17":"tag-missouri","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-mlb-baseball","20":"tag-mo-state-wire","21":"tag-san-francisco","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115698523988643688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}