{"id":582336,"date":"2026-02-20T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582336\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:36:00","slug":"yankees-austin-wells-giancarlo-stanton-belt-homers-in-batting-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582336\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Austin Wells, Giancarlo Stanton belt homers in batting practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observations from Yankees\u2019 spring training on Thursday in Tampa:<\/p>\n<p>Going bye, bye<\/p>\n<p>Austin Wells and Giancarlo Stanton both crushed home runs off Osvaldo Bido during live batting practice, with Stanton\u2019s blast hitting halfway up the scoreboard in left-center field.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.46285714;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38548153\" width=\"863\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Giancarlo-Stanton.jpg\" alt=\"Giancarlo Stanton, taking batting practice earlier this week, hit a home off Osvaldo Bido during BP on Feb. 19, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-38548153\"  \/>Giancarlo Stanton, taking batting practice earlier this week, hit a home off Osvaldo Bido during BP on Feb. 19, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Bido beatdown<\/p>\n<p>Bido, claimed off waivers earlier this month but out of minor league options, got beat up a bit during his inning of work. <\/p>\n<p>He just escaped a line drive smoked back at him by Aaron Judge , and Trent Grisham tagged a deep fly ball to the warning track.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.97460938;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38548130\" width=\"575\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Osvaldo-Bido.jpg\" alt=\"Osvaldo Bido, throwing earlier this month, gave up home runs to Austin Wells and Giancarlo Stanton during the one inning of batting practice he threw on Feb. 19, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-38548130\"  \/>Osvaldo Bido, throwing earlier this month, gave up home runs to Austin Wells and Giancarlo Stanton during the one inning of batting practice he threw on Feb. 19, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Caught my eye<\/p>\n<p>J.C. Escarra mixed in some first base work with his regular catching duties Thursday and also brought out his third-base glove.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo beyond the box score with the Bombers\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Yankees by Greg Joyce, exclusively on Sports+.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Escarra made cameos at both corner infield spots last season, and his ability to play there in a pinch adds to his case to make the roster, giving the Yankees more flexibility off the bench even if they carry three catchers.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees begin Grapefruit League play on the road against the Orioles in Sarasota, Fla., with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/19\/sports\/elmer-rodriguez-set-to-start-yankees-grapefruit-league-opener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top pitching prospect Elmer Rodr\u00edguez getting the start<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Yankees\u2019 spring training on Thursday in Tampa: Going bye, bye Austin Wells and Giancarlo Stanton both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[1217,5,310,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,151,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-582336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-austin-wells","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkyankees","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-spring-training","18":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116101340300731105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}