{"id":463618,"date":"2026-02-12T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463618\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:58:07","slug":"yankees-news-pitchers-and-catchers-report-ready-to-run-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463618\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Pitchers and catchers report ready to run it back"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Daily News | Gary Phillips<\/a>: Pitchers and catchers have reported, and in the Yankees\u2019 case, well, it\u2019s largely the same group of pitchers and catchers that were here last season. Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman have acknowledged that the team is essentially Running it Back, and the players that came to camp on Wednesday expressed their belief that the club they have is good enough to win it all. \u201cWe\u2019re running it back because at the halfway point [last season], we thought we built a team that was going to go to the World Series, and we still believe that wholeheartedly,\u201d Jazz Chisholm Jr. said. \u201cIf we play well, it\u2019ll be a good thing,\u201d Paul Goldschmidt said on the subject of running it back. \u201cIf we don\u2019t, then it\u2019ll probably be said that\u2019s the reason we didn\u2019t play well\u201d.<\/p>\n

MLB.com | Bryan Hoch<\/a>: As teams report to camp, inevitably we receive a whole host of surprise injury news as some players arrive at spring training having gotten hurt at some point in the offseason. However, the Yankees appear to be fortunate this time around, as Boone stated yesterday that there were no new injuries to report as camp opened. In fact, we got good injury news coming out of Tampa, as Boone indicated that both Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rod\u00f3n\u00a0could appear in Grapefruit League games, indicating that their respective rehabs are going well and both are on track to return fairly early in the regular season.<\/p>\n

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New York Post | Mark Suleymanov<\/a>: Among the Yankees\u2019 goals this offseason was to find right-handed bats to counteract their lineup\u2019s lefty lean, and they\u2019ve done that with the re-signings of Amed Rosario and Paul Goldschmidt. They had also been rumored to be considering a reunion with Austin Slater, whom they traded for at last year\u2019s deadline, but the veteran outfielder has returned to the Tigers, Jon Heyman was first to report. Slater has a strong track record against left-handed pitching, but struggled in a very small sample with the Yankees, going 1-for-16 against lefties.<\/p>\n

MLB.com | Bryan Hoch<\/a>: Though it was paced by veteran horses like Max Fried and Carlos Rod\u00f3n, the Yankee pitching staff received a big boost from young hurlers last year, with Will Warren leading all rookies in innings and strikeouts, and Cam Schlittler bursting onto the scene over the summer and ultimately pitching the Yankees through to the ALDS. To hear them tell it, the Yankees feel there\u2019s more where that came from. \u201cWe have some young pups pushing up the ladder,\u201d Brian Cashman recently told reporters, noting his belief that some of the Yankees\u2019 top pitching prospects will again contribute in the near future. The most obvious candidates are Elmer Rodriguez and Carlos Lagrange, power pitchers who flattened Double-A last year, but there\u2019s also reason for optimism for the likes of Angel Chivilli and Cade Winquest, a pair of live arms the Yankees acquired during the winter that they believe could supplement their bullpen in 2026.<\/p>\n

FanGraphs | Dan Szymborksi<\/a>: We\u2019re in the thick of projection season, and today, Szymborski analyzed the players that saw the biggest boosts in their ZiPS projections year-over-year. One name on the list is Ben Rice, whose 1.8 WAR increase is the sixth largest among all players (though for my money, ZiPS\u2019 2.2 WAR projection still underrates Rice). Also on the list? None other than Aaron Judge, whose 7.7 WAR projection outpaces his previous forecast by 1.6 WAR. Projections can be slow to react to truly singular players like Judge, and though a player his age is liable to decline at any time, even this projection from ZiPS feels light for Judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Daily News | Gary Phillips: Pitchers and catchers have reported, and in the Yankees\u2019 case, well,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1992,4260,32843,106946,38784,4700,27449,146352,1994,76817,103664,9306,10656,6134,363,103663,369,32033,215960,99,18708],"class_list":["post-463618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-boone","tag-aaron-judge","tag-amed-rosario","tag-angel-chivilli","tag-austin-slater","tag-austin-wells","tag-ben-rice","tag-brian-cashman","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-gary-phillips","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-pitchers-and-catchers","tag-sports","tag-will-warren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}