{"id":470445,"date":"2026-02-15T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/470445\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:17:08","slug":"ben-rice-injury-latest-on-yankees-1bs-neck-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/470445\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Rice injury: Latest on Yankees 1B\u2019s neck, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025-03-22T002420Z_921011642_MT1USATODAY25734013_RTRMADP_3_MLB-SPRING-TRAINING-NEW-YORK-YANKEES-AT-D.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ben Rice Yankees spring training\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Ben Rice injury: Latest on Yankees 1B's neck, more 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> Mandatory Credit: Mike Watters-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees are going to start the season without Gerrit Cole, Carlos Rodon, and Anthony Volpe due to injury. Cam Schlittler is dealing with a non-worrying back issue. Now, catcher Ben Rice is working through a neck issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This injury, though, was not from any sort of baseball activity.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI fall asleep in one position and wake up in another, something everyone deals with,\u201d Rice told reporters (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/14\/sports\/yankees-ben-rice-dealing-with-minor-neck-injury-from-sleeping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Greg Joyce<\/a>, NY Post).<\/p>\n<p>While it is deemed minor and should not impact him in any long-term scenario throughout spring training, he has yet to hit the batting cages, though he did catch Rodon\u2019s bullpen session on Saturday. Rice will likely serve as a secondary option behind the plate to Austin Wells this season while getting the bulk of his playing time at first base, even after the Yankees re-signed Paul Goldschmidt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rice is coming off a breakout campaign in which he posted an .836 OPS with 26 home runs and 65 RBI in 138 games.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>For more on Ben Rice and the Yankees, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/sports\/baseball\/new-york-yankees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AMNY.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mandatory Credit: Mike Watters-Imagn Images &#13; &#13; The New York Yankees are going to start the season without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[27449,363,99,12404],"class_list":["post-470445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ben-rice","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470445","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=470445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}