{"id":600861,"date":"2026-03-02T02:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/600861\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T02:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:12:14","slug":"cody-bellinger-gives-update-on-back-issues-sidelining-him-at-yankees-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/600861\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Bellinger gives update on back issues sidelining him at Yankees camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA \u2014 Cody Bellinger knows the deal by now.<\/p>\n

The Yankees veteran\u2019s back issues have become almost an annual rite of passage around this time on the calendar, which gives him assurance that he will be back on the field soon.<\/p>\n

For now, Bellinger is sidelined<\/a> after his back tightened up on him Friday, keeping him out of games this weekend.<\/p>\n

The Yankees have an off-day Monday, but Bellinger is expected to hit live batting practice Tuesday and then return to game action Thursday (not Wednesday since the team has a lengthy trip to play in Fort Myers).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s honestly very mild,\u201d Bellinger said Sunday morning at Steinbrenner Field. \u201cJust ramping up activity and it just tightened up on me a little bit. Really nothing serious. Where we\u2019re at on the schedule and not even being March yet [when it happened], take a few days, get right and then I think by the time I get back into games, I\u2019ll still be able to have plenty of at-bats to get ready for the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CodyCody Bellinger during the Yankees\u2019 spring training game against the Braves on Feb. 26, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Bellinger had played in three exhibitions before the back issues came on. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same thing he dealt with last April during the regular season, when he missed two games before getting back on the field.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old outfielder, who re-signed with the Yankees on a five-year, $162.5 million contract<\/a>, said he knows what kind of treatment he needs to get his back right.<\/p>\n

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\u201cVery knowledgeable of that process,\u201d he said with a wry grin. \u201cBut even today, feeling really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan McMahon is in line to start at shortstop Tuesday and Thursday as the Yankees want to see if the third baseman can be a backup option there, which would give them greater flexibility in how they build their roster to break camp. <\/p>\n

If McMahon looks the part, they may not necessarily need to carry a backup shortstop behind Jos\u00e9 Caballero while Anthony Volpe is on the IL (they are still trying to figure out if Oswaldo Cabrera will be fully ready after coming back from a broken ankle last May).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Cody Bellinger knows the deal by now. The Yankees veteran\u2019s back issues have become almost an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,1365,4,62,185,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-600861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cody-bellinger","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116157164078812502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600861","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=600861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}