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Paul Goldschmidt

American baseball player (born 1987)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Paul Edward Goldschmidt is an American professional baseball first baseman for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks and St. Louis Cardinals, and has represented the United States in international competition.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paul Goldschmidt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.