{"id":487827,"date":"2026-02-18T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487827\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:42:08","slug":"yankees-brent-headrick-already-bringing-heat-at-spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487827\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Brent Headrick already bringing heat at spring training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observations from Yankees\u2019 spring training on Tuesday in Tampa:<\/p>\n<p>New reliever turns up heat<\/p>\n<p>Brent Headrick, the lefty reliever whom Yankees personnel were high on entering camp, threw an inning of live batting practice and got up to 96 mph.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.43618513;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38523625\" width=\"847\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Brent-Headrick.jpg\" alt=\"Yankees' new reliever BrentHeadrick, throwing a couple of days earlier in training camp, threw one inning of batting practice on Feb. 17, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-38523625\"  \/>Yankees\u2019 new reliever BrentHeadrick, throwing a couple of days earlier in training camp, threw one inning of batting practice on Feb. 17, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Some sick time<\/p>\n<p>After sitting out Monday\u2019s workout due to flu-like symptoms, Ryan McMahon got back on the field Tuesday as a full participant, despite feeling some lingering effects.<\/p>\n<p>Caught my eye<\/p>\n<p>Gerrit Cole and Max Fried threw bullpen sessions side by side Tuesday, and it didn\u2019t take much imagination to envision them throwing back-to-back days atop the Yankees rotation later this year, as long as Cole gets through the rest of his Tommy John rehab without a setback.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.15315315;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38523646\" width=\"680\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Fried.-Cole.jpg\" alt=\"Max Fried (left) and Gerrit Cole pose for a picture earlier in Yankees' training camp.\" class=\"wp-image-38523646\"  \/>Max Fried (left) and Gerrit Cole pose for a picture earlier in Yankees\u2019 training camp. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo beyond the box score with the Bombers\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Yankees by Greg Joyce, exclusively on Sports+.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees will hold another full-squad workout at Steinbrenner Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Yankees\u2019 spring training on Tuesday in Tampa: New reliever turns up heat Brent Headrick, the lefty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,29667,15143,591,2704,16059,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-487827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-gerrit-cole","11":"tag-max-fried","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-ryan-mcmahon","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}