{"id":624720,"date":"2026-03-15T07:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/624720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:38:19","slug":"kervin-castro-has-yankees-attention-in-push-for-one-of-final-bullpen-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/624720\/","title":{"rendered":"Kervin Castro has Yankees\u2019 \u2018attention\u2019 in push for one of final bullpen spots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Observations from Yankees spring training on Saturday:<\/p>\n

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Ring the Bell\u2019<\/p>\n

Cody Bellinger drilled a triple to the gap in right-center field off right-hander Jonathan Bowlan and is now batting .320 through nine exhibition games.<\/p>\n

Brutal on basepaths<\/p>\n

After drawing a walk and stealing second base with no outs in the second inning, Jazz Chisholm Jr. was promptly picked off by right-hander Bryse Wilson.<\/p>\n

On the very next pitch, Jasson Dom\u00ednguez was caught attempting to steal second base.<\/p>\n

Caught my eye<\/p>\n

Kervin Castro made his sixth appearance of the spring, throwing 1 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings of relief Saturday, and has yet to give up an earned run.<\/p>\n

\"Kervin<\/p>\n

Kervin Castro is pictured during the Yankees\u2019 Feb. 16 spring training game. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n

The righty, who was added to the 40-man roster in November, has a chance to claim one of the last two bullpen spots.<\/p>\n

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\u201cKervin\u2019s gotten my attention,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n

The Yankees have their first split-squad doubleheader of camp, with Luis Gil starting at home against the Tigers at 1:05 p.m. and Paul Blackburn starting the nightcap against the Orioles in Sarasota at 6:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Yankees spring training on Saturday: Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,755,1365,57239,3289,1363,13041,58674,2277,4,5808,142],"class_list":["post-624720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-bryse-wilson","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-exhibition-games","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","tag-jonathan-bowlan","tag-kervin-castro","tag-luis-gil","tag-mlb","tag-paul-blackburn","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116232055955771035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624720","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=624720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}