{"id":597454,"date":"2026-02-28T04:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/597454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:37:25","slug":"spencer-jones-continues-to-show-off-prodigious-yankees-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/597454\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Jones continues to show off prodigious Yankees power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 The Yankees are getting the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/22\/sports\/spencer-jones-ohani-like-swing-delivered-home-run-in-strong-yankees-start\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full Spencer Jones experience<\/a> early on this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By and large \u2014 emphasis on the large \u2014 they will take it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jones homered Friday for the third time in four games, crushing a 427-foot shot off the batter\u2019s eye in a 17-5 win over the Twins at Hammond Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always fun to hit \u2019em out of the yard,\u201d Jones said. \u201cBut at the end of the day, as long as I\u2019m taking swings at the pitches that I want to, as long as I\u2019m seeing the ball well, that\u2019s usually how I judge myself from day to day in games, being able to read pitches and make good decisions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three home runs account for Jones\u2019 three hits this spring, going 3-for-8 with four strikeouts and two walks. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.36351531;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/022626Yankees04CW.jpg\" alt=\"New York Yankees center fielder Spencer Jones hitting a solo homer in the 7th inning.&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-38630319\"  \/>New York Yankees center fielder Spencer Jones hitting a solo homer on Feb. 26, 2026.<br \/>\n Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>When he grounded out in the second inning Friday, it marked the first out he had made this spring that was not via the strikeout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-7, left-handed slugger has continued to tinker with his swing mechanics early in camp, trying to cut down on the strikeouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of conversations behind the scenes, working on some stuff, cleaning up the [bat] path and finding some cues and working with guys to learn,\u201d Jones said. \u201cYou don\u2019t really know what you got until you\u2019re out there facing an arm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.44022504;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38630327\" width=\"850\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/022626Yankees07CW.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer Jones\" class=\"wp-image-38630327\"  \/>Spencer Jones is having a powerful spring training for the Yankees. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Back in Tampa, Gerrit Cole faced hitters for the second time in his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/23\/sports\/gerrit-cole-sees-the-horizon-of-return-and-what-that-means-for-yankees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rehab from Tommy John surgery<\/a>, throwing 22 pitches against Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Trent Grisham. <\/p>\n<p>Stanton remains in line to make his Grapefruit League debut in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 The Yankees are getting the full Spencer Jones experience early on this spring.\u00a0 By&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,2281,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,151,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-597454","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-gerrit-cole","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-spring-training","17":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116146409800455389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597454","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=597454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}