Perhaps it will be much ado about nothing.
Or maybe it will be somewhere in between Trent Grisham taking ground balls at first base semi-regularly over the past two seasons and Oswaldo Cabrera actually playing first base on occasion after making himself an option there.
But when the Yankees re-signed Amed Rosario earlier this month, Aaron Boone asked the right-handed-hitting utilityman if he had his first-base glove ready. Rosario has played a total of 7,718 innings in the field throughout his big league career across seven different positions — every one except catcher and first base.
The Yankees are planning on at least seeing if Rosario can be an option at first base this season, though. He occasionally could be a complement to the left-handed-hitting Ben Rice and perhaps mean they will not have to devote more dollars to a righty-hitting first baseman.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
