A boring winter gave way to a boring spring \u2014 the latter coming with a better connotation than the former.<\/p>\n
But now, after getting the band back together from the last time they were on the field for a game that counted \u2014 Game 4 of the ALDS in October \u2014 the Yankees are about to find out whether their wavering belief in the roster they finished 2025 with can pay dividends in 2026, sprinkling in the help of a few additions along the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we have a good, strong, deep roster of players that are capable of great things,\u201d general manager Brian Cashman said. \u201cWe look forward to testing that theory.\u201d<\/p>\n
While 24 of the 26 players from the 2025 ALDS roster are back in the organization, the biggest potential difference this season is the looming return of Gerrit Cole. The former AL Cy Young winner\u2019s comeback from Tommy John surgery was one of the most promising developments of a relatively uneventful spring training for the club, keeping Cole on track to potentially make his season debut at some point in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boring winter gave way to a boring spring \u2014 the latter coming with a better connotation than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[1797,106,1205,1217,5,731,3936,2281,4,81741,1690,62,2548,2547,185,428,122,142],"class_list":["post-639337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-aaron-boone","tag-aaron-judge","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-austin-wells","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-brian-cashman","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-preview-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-trent-grisham","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116279842436542063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639337","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=639337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}