{"id":605119,"date":"2026-02-21T05:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/605119\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:35:18","slug":"yankees-jazz-chisholm-jr-not-shying-away-from-lofty-50-50-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/605119\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. not shying away from lofty 50-50 goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

SARASOTA, Fla. \u2014 Right after securing a 30-30 season last September, Jazz Chisholm Jr. was already talking about wanting to reach 40-40.<\/p>\n

Five months later, entering a vital contract year, the Yankees star is already jumping ahead to talk of a 50-50 season, which has only been done once in the history of the game, by Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n

Give Chisholm this: He is never going to set his sights too low<\/a>, or too boring.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to say nothing that I don\u2019t think I can do,\u201d he said after getting on base twice in his spring debut, a 2-0 loss to the Orioles at Ed Smith Stadium. \u201cI\u2019m always going to speak positive into the atmosphere. I\u2019m never going to tell myself or tell anybody that, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m just going to have a year where I hit 10 home runs and hit .250.\u2019 Who does that sound like? A loser. That\u2019s a loser.<\/p>\n

\"NewJazz Chisholm Jr. swings during the Yankees\u2019 Feb. 20 spring training game. Imagn Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to go shoot for the stars and if I miss, I\u2019m going to end up on the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Yankees would certainly take the moon, with Chisholm coming off a season in which he hit 31 home runs and stole 31 bases despite missing a month with an oblique injury and not attempting a steal for another month while he played through a groin issue.<\/p>\n

Chisholm is heading into his final year under club control, and while hundreds of millions of dollars could be waiting on the other side of it, he is planning on using the pressure of such a big season to his advantage.<\/p>\n

\"NewJazz Chisholm Jr. is pictured during a Feb. 11 workout at spring training. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that brings out the best in me,\u201d he said. \u201cThe contract year is even better for me. I like pressure. I like going out there and having to play for something, having to go and do it. Go win games and make it meaningful every day. That\u2019s what baseball\u2019s supposed to be about. You play for people, you play for your family, you play for your friends at home and you play for the team you\u2019re wearing every time you go out there. And also, you play for yourself.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, when you\u2019re going out there and doing all that, how can you not get pumped up and excited and enjoy the ride? It\u2019s just like a roller coaster. If you don\u2019t enjoy the ride, it\u2019s going to suck. But when you enjoy the ride, it\u2019s one of the best rides of your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chisholm also added that he will be playing this season for his best friend growing up, who died unexpectedly last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m really playing this year for is my best friend, that he is not going to get to see me go into free agency,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s not going to get to see me sign the long-term deal we\u2019ve been talking about since I was kid. He\u2019s not going to be able to see a lot of things that I do and it sucks. I wish he was here. I still miss him to this day. So yeah, that\u2019s who I play for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jake Bird threw a scoreless inning of relief, allowing only an infield single that he quickly erased on a double play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. \u2014 Right after securing a 30-30 season last September, Jazz Chisholm Jr. was already talking about…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":605120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9138,1266,2228,62,170848,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-605119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-jazz-chisholm","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-spring-training","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116107000332078070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605119","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=605119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}