{"id":492679,"date":"2026-01-04T22:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492679\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:02:10","slug":"infielder-paul-dejong-and-new-york-yankees-agree-to-minor-league-contract-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492679\/","title":{"rendered":"Infielder Paul DeJong and New York Yankees agree to minor league contract, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Infielder Paul DeJong and the New York Yankees have agreed to a minor league contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press, a deal that includes a $1 million salary if he&#8217;s added to the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Sunday because the agreement, first reported by the New York Post, had not been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>If added to the 40-man roster, DeJong could earn up to $400,000 in performance bonuses based on plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>An All-Star in 2019, the 32-year-old DeJong hit .228 with six homers and 23 RBIs in 57 games last year with Washington. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nationals-paul-dejong-injury-face-nose-surgery-eac07e99f98ff3609159f9c4a1636f69\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:He broke his nose on April 15;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">He broke his nose on April 15<\/a> when hit by a 92.7 mph fastball from Pittsburgh\u2019s Mitch Keller, had surgery April 28 and did not play for the Nationals again until July 2.<\/p>\n<p>DeJong has a .229 average with 146 homers and 423 RBIs in nine major league seasons with St. Louis (2017-23), Toronto (2023), San Francisco (2023), the Chicago White Sox (2024), Kansas City (2024) and the Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Infielder Paul DeJong and the New York Yankees have agreed to a minor league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":492680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1274,18818,60046,1266,27240,2228,119750,12099,221951,2750,62,23993,8790,67,132,68,2058],"class_list":{"0":"post-492679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-chicago-white-sox","9":"tag-kansas-city","10":"tag-mitch-keller","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-post","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-paul-dejong","15":"tag-pittsburgh","16":"tag-plate-appearances","17":"tag-san-francisco","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-st-louis","20":"tag-toronto","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115839090668613308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492679","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=492679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}