Pitchers and catchers reported to Yankees spring training a little over a week ago, and now today, we check off another milestone on the way to Opening Day. It\u2019s the Grapefruit League opener! Yes, it\u2019s that special time of year when MLB players appear in games they don\u2019t particularly care about, all with the explicit goal of not breaking something. But it beats \u201cno baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first game will be in Sarasota against the Orioles. Since it\u2019s a spring road game, that means we\u2019re not getting as many regulars, so that makes our question today a bit more tricky than one might think. So who\u2019s hitting the first long ball of the spring?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s who we know is making the trip:<\/p>\n
As such, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Austin Wells would be good guesses since they\u2019re both power threats. And if Amed Rosario is facing a lefty, well, he did slug .491 against southpaws in 2025.<\/p>\n
Maybe there\u2019s a surprise in store though! We\u2019ll update this post once we know the full lineup, but make your best guess! And hey, it\u2019s not out of the realm of possibility that the Yankees go homerless today, too, so Aaron Judge and more are in play for tomorrow.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s more than just the spring opener today on the site! Andr\u00e9s will begin our morning by musing on the Yankees\u2019 ever-evolving international baseball operations overhaul, Jake will celebrate the 113th birthday of late-1940s\/early-\u201950s standout Tommy Henrich (Old Reliable), and Michael will preview Trent Grisham\u2019s 2026 season. Peter will have you covered on the exhibition game against the O\u2019s.<\/p>\n
New York Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles<\/p>\n
Video: Gotham Sports, MLB Network, MASN<\/p>\n
Venue: Ed Smith Stadium, Sarasota, FL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitchers and catchers reported to Yankees spring training a little over a week ago, and now today, we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,4,125,7660,3997],"class_list":{"0":"post-582719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-orioles","14":"tag-pinstripe-alley-discussions","15":"tag-today-on-pinstripe-alley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116102628455447902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582719","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=582719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}