after sending Jasson Dom\u00ednguez to Triple-A on Friday night<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cObviously I think it was a good opportunity, that\u2019s why I came here and was excited to be here,\u201d said Grichuk, who will make $2.5 million. \u201cWith the late start and some things out of your control, I tried to make the most of it. Glad I did enough to crack it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Through Saturday, Grichuk was only batting 2-for-19 with a .308 OPS, but indicated he felt close to finding his timing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Oswaldo Cabrera during spring training. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel far at all,\u201d he said. \u201cLeading up to this, I was playing that game of, in between [games], doing things I wanted to do to prepare for the season and get my timing, see pitches, but also try to produce to make the team. But now, go out there for the last few games and do some things that I need to do to prepare myself physically to get in the moves that I need to make for the different pitches in a game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Grichuk had a bit of a down year last season, but for his career has hit .268 with a .819 OPS against lefties.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unlike, say, Dom\u00ednguez, Grichuk also has experience not playing every day and still producing when he does get in the lineup against lefties \u2014which will likely mean Trent Grisham heading to the bench, Cody Bellinger sliding to center field and Grichuk starting in left. It is a role he has excelled in in recent years after being an everyday player earlier in his career, with a change in mindset helping that transition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to say it too bluntly, but it\u2019s, \u2018eff me or eff it,\u2019\u201d Grichuk said. \u201cI changed my mindset to, \u2018eff it,\u2019 and kind of took off. Not, \u2018Poor me,\u2019 in any situation, if I haven\u2019t gotten at-bats in a while, if you\u2019re facing a tough guy, whatever the case may be. I feel like it\u2019s allowed me to play free and loose and just be ready when my name\u2019s called.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for Cabrera, the fan favorite faced an uphill battle to make the team after arriving at camp still trying to find the final burst in his recovery from a gruesome ankle injury last May. After getting into his first game on March 6, he was still hopeful he would have enough time to show he was ready, but instead he will get everyday reps in Triple-A.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cabrera, like Dom\u00ednguez, will travel to Arizona with the Yankees for exhibitions against the Cubs on Monday and Tuesday before heading to Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre, which may have a stacked roster to begin the season \u2014 a good sign for the big league club.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOswaldo just needs to play,\u201d Boone said. \u201cI really like the corner he\u2019s turned the last month, but then even more specifically in the last week or so. But now he just needs to play and stack days. Obviously we know what he\u2019s capable of when he\u2019s healthy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKELAND, Fla. \u2014 The 26-man Yankees roster is nearly set.\u00a0 The last bench spot was finalized Saturday, when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,4,62,1364,1448,185,151,594],"class_list":["post-636461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-baseball","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-oswaldo-cabrera","tag-randal-grichuk","tag-sports","tag-spring-training","tag-tigers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116270523433691240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636461","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=636461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Yankees outfielder Randal Grichuk (34) singles during the first inning against the Detroit Tigers at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images<\/p>\n