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Ben Rice

NYY 1st Baseman #22

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Ben Rice is at first base and batting cleanup on Saturday against the Giants.

Rice took a seat on Friday with lefty strikeout machine Robbie Ray on the mound for San Francisco. The 27-year-old first baseman will continue ceding the occasional start to veteran Paul Goldschmidt against southpaws but he’s still going to play enough to be an upper-echelon fantasy backstop. The big question is whether he’ll spend enough time behind the plate this season to retain catcher eligibility into next year.
Brendan Beck

NYY Starting Pitcher #75

Brendan Beck tossed five scoreless innings and struck out nine for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Friday.

Beck’s 89-93 mph fastball keeps him from showing up high on prospects lists, but it didn’t stop him from generating 18 whiffs last night, including nine on the 22 sliders he threw. Beck had a 3.36 ERA and a 123/36 K/BB in 131 1/3 innings between Double- and Triple-A last season. It doesn’t seem likely that the Yankees will need him as a starter this year, but with his command, he’d probably hold his own if given the chance.
Cam Schlittler

NYY Starting Pitcher #31

Cam Schlittler limited the Giants to one hit over 5 1/3 innings and struck out eight in the Yankees 3-0 shutout Friday.

Fernando Cruz, Tim Hill, Camilo Doval and David Bednar finished up with 3 2/3 hitless innings. The Yankees wanted to keep Schlittler at 70 or so pitches today, yet he was able to get 16 outs anyway. He recorded four strikeouts with his fastball, which averaged 98.5 mph, and only two of the nine balls in play against him were hit hard. Based on how he’s looked since day one this spring, he should be one of the AL’s better pitchers if he remains healthy.
David Bednar

NYY Relief Pitcher #53

David Bednar worked a hitless ninth versus the Giants for his first save Friday.

Bednar walked Matt Chapman with two outs in the 3-0 game but then retired Rafael Devers to end things. Bednar’s velocity was down all spring, including in the WBC, but he was up to 96.3 mph on average with his fastball tonight. That’s back to within 0.7 mph of last year. He was at 94.6 mph in his five Grapefruit League appearances.
Aaron Judge

NYY Right Fielder #99

After opening the season 0-for-7 with five strikeouts, Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning Friday against the Giants.

Judge took advantage of the ABS system on what was called a 1-0 strike from Robbie Ray, getting it overturned when it turned out to be 0.1 inches low. He later homered with a full count on the seventh pitch of the at-bat, sending the ball 405 feet to left.
Ben Rice

NYY 1st Baseman #22

Yankees 1B Ben Rice is on the bench for Friday’s game against the Giants.

LHP Robbie Ray is starting. The Yankees promised they would play Rice against more left-handers this year. One game isn’t a whole season. But ... yeah, not ideal for Rice managers. Those with Rice in daily lineups should pivot. Paul Goldschmidt is batting first and leading off. The rest of the lineup is: Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger, Giancarlo Stanton, Amed Rosario, Jazz Chisholm, Jose Caballero, Randal Grichuk, and Austin Wells.
Luis Garcia

NYY Starting Pitcher #77

Yankees signed RHP Luis Garcia to a minor-league contract.

Garcia underwent Tommy John surgery in October and is presumably signing a two-year pact here. The Yankees will oversee the 29-year-old’s rehab and hope they can rediscover his 2021-2022 form, where he started 56 games for the Astros and compiled a 3.60 ERA, 26 wins, and 324 strikeouts in 312.2 innings.
Max Fried

NYY Starting Pitcher #54

Max Fried limited the Giants to a pair of singles over 6 1/3 innings in the Yankees’ 7-0 shutout victory on Opening Night.

It was just poor luck for the Giants that they never had the guys on base to employ their huge advantage over the rest of the league in situational hitting. Fried’s velocity crept back up some tonight; he averaged 95.4 mph with his fastball in the first two innings and 94.6 mph overall, up from 94.0 mph last time out. This is actually the first time ever that Fried has earned a win in his first outing of the season. Last year, the Yankees won 20-9 in his debut, but Fried gave up six runs — two earned — and was pulled one out shy of qualifying for the win. In 2024 with Atlanta, he didn’t even make it out of the first inning while facing the Phillies. Fried will pitch in Seattle next time out.
Trent Grisham

NYY Center Fielder #12

Trent Grisham had a two-run triple from the leadoff spot against the Giants on Wednesday.

Grisham was a little bit shaken up on the triple, not because he was hit by the throw, even though he was, but because he dove into the foot that Matt Chapman had planted in front of third base even though he didn’t have the ball. Fortunately, he was able to remain in the game.
Aaron Judge

NYY Right Fielder #99

Aaron Judge struck out his first four times up before grounding out in his fifth at-bat Wednesday against the Giants.

He saw Logan Webb pitching and thought it was still the World Baseball Classic? Judge went without a four-strikeout game last year, though this is the 15th of his career. Three of those were five-strikeout games. Judge was the only member of the Yankees lineup to go hitless in the 7-0 win tonight.