{"id":551728,"date":"2026-03-21T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551728\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:36:09","slug":"veteran-of-randal-grichuk-makes-yankees-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551728\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran OF Randal Grichuk makes Yankees&#8217; opening day roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 21, 2026, 02:18 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. &#8212; Veteran outfielder Randal Grichuk has made the New York Yankees&#8217; opening day roster.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Aaron Boone told reporters Saturday that Grichuk made the team. The Yankees also announced they reassigned infielder Paul DeJong and utilityman Seth Brown to minor league camp and optioned utilityman <a data-player-guid=\"b20da4d0-dcd9-21b5-9988-f8deae440f8a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40835\/oswaldo-cabrera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oswaldo Cabrera<\/a> and infielder <a data-player-guid=\"d28d2cd2-de10-36b4-b1e7-166e28d6b169\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/3962127\/max-schuemann\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Schuemann<\/a> to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n<p>Grichuk, 34, is coming off a 2025 season in which he batted .228 with a .273 on-base percentage, nine homers and 27 RBI in 113 combined games for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"43e14a76-ff66-49ed-24fc-2835932f99dd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"11a5df00-0945-35a5-66fe-a3a107975558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has hit .251 with a .298 on-base percentage, 212 homers and 629 RBI in a 12-year career that has included stops with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c781e7c6-2c5b-beaf-55b8-999c76f76661\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (2014-17), <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0151aed9-9f11-ceae-195d-180ca603b64a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (2018-21), <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f3f1ba71-05f1-a49a-0363-3b1d8e0db4cf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> (2022-23), <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"053868c7-8bff-5edb-3cb6-f5490f33ef99\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (2023), Diamondbacks (2024-25) and Royals (2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 21, 2026, 02:18 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. &#8212; Veteran outfielder Randal Grichuk has made the New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-551728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}