{"id":590532,"date":"2026-02-24T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/590532\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:20:16","slug":"joel-shermans-3-things-i-think-why-ben-rices-ascension-is-so-critical-to-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/590532\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Sherman\u2019s 3 Things I Think: Why Ben Rice\u2019s ascension is so critical to Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Sherman remains embedded in Yankees camp and comes to us with a heaping bowl of thoughts on Ben Rice.<\/p>\n<p>First, Yankees fans are going to love the comp Joel has for Rice.\u00a0Here\u2019s a hint on said comp: He\u2019s one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/kyle-schwarber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best power hitters<\/a> not named Aaron Judge this decade.<\/p>\n<p>He came up at the same position Ben Rice has. He was also considered one of the most impactful bats for each of the World Series-caliber teams he\u2019s played on over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Figure it out yet? The answer is in the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel Sherman remains embedded in Yankees camp and comes to us with a heaping bowl of thoughts on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,731,81,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,430,428,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-590532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ben-rice","10":"tag-kyle-schwarber","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkyankees","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116126759478312178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590532","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=590532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}