{"id":502646,"date":"2026-02-25T07:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502646\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:21:16","slug":"yankees-aggressive-abs-approach-comes-up-big-against-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502646\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ aggressive ABS approach comes up big against Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUNEDIN, Fla. \u2014 Aaron Boone said near the start of camp that he wanted his club to be aggressive in using the automated ball-strike challenge system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How does a 6-for-8 day sound in that regard?<\/p>\n

The Yankees were both aggressive and mostly accurate with their challenges Tuesday during an 8-7 win over the Blue Jays<\/a> at TD Ballpark. That included Austin Wells and Jos\u00e9 Caballero both going 2-for-2 in getting calls overturned. Caballero used both in a single at-bat to draw a walk, Jazz Chisholm Jr. nailed his only challenge and Trent Grisham went 1-for-2, though Boone did have a slight issue with Grisham\u2019s miss.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be really good at it,\u201d Boone said. \u201cWe want to be the best at it. I feel like our guys, we\u2019ve been preaching around here long enough about controlling the strike zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought Grish\u2019s second one where he was wrong was probably a little emotional for him. He kind of wanted to challenge the first one and then the last one, when he probably wasn\u2019t convicted. But overall, I thought guys did a good job with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"homeHome plate umpire Tom Fornarola makes an announcement as New York Yankees shortstop Jos\u00e9 Caballero challenged a call that was overturned. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

With teams getting two challenges per game \u2014 and retaining them as long as they are correct \u2014 one thought might be to save them for big spots late. But Boone does not agree with that idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t \u2018save them for the seventh, eighth and ninth,\u2019 \u201d Boone said. \u201cI want us to be right. \u2026 But I just want us to also inherently understand leverage. You\u2019re down to one and it\u2019s the fifth inning, nobody on, two outs, 1-0 count, that\u2019s one I feel like we got to nail that one if we\u2019re challenging that one. But it doesn\u2019t change [in a] big spot, two strikes, fourth inning, two men on, that\u2019s the biggest spot at that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spring training stats mean next to nothing, especially for a veteran like Paul Goldschmidt. But they don\u2019t hurt, either, and the first baseman continued his solid start Tuesday by crushing a two-run homer off tough righty Tyler Rogers and later adding a two-run double against righty Jesse Hahn.<\/p>\n

\"PaulPaul Goldschmidt blasted a home run on Tuesday for the Yankees. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely not a time where you just want to go through the motions,\u201d said Goldschmidt, who will leave camp this weekend to play for Team USA in the WBC. \u201cYou want to have good at-bats and really more than anything, just keep building toward the regular season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two relievers vying to break camp in the Yankees bullpen had solid outings Tuesday, with Jake Bird delivering 1 \u00b9\/\u2083 scoreless innings and lefty Brent Headrick making his spring debut with a scoreless frame.<\/p>\n

Kervin Castro, another bullpen candidate after he was added to the 40-man roster this offseason, tossed two shutout innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN, Fla. \u2014 Aaron Boone said near the start of camp that he wanted his club to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[6776,64,22731,63,591,2704,85,205673],"class_list":{"0":"post-502646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aaron-boone","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-austin-wells","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-spring-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502646","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=502646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}