{"id":671449,"date":"2026-04-09T06:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671449\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:12:29","slug":"ben-rice-shows-he-still-has-a-lot-to-learn-but-tino-martinez-thinks-his-futures-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671449\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Rice shows he still has a lot to learn, but Tino Martinez thinks his future&#8217;s bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is still a learning curve for Ben Rice \u2014 at the plate and at first base.<\/p>\n<p>Both were on display in the Yankees\u2019 3-2 loss to the A\u2019s on Wednesday night at the Stadium, as the first baseman botched a few balls in the field and struck out four times in a game for the first time in his major league career.<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t helped by low throws from Yankees infielders throughout a frigid night in the Bronx. <\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the rough outing looks like a blip in what has been a terrific start to the season for the 27-year-old, catching the eye of one of his predecessors at first base, Tino Martinez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is still a learning curve for Ben Rice \u2014 at the plate and at first base. Both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,731,8057,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,428,24559,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-671449","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-ben-rice","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkyankees","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-tino-martinez","19":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116373274540086673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671449","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=671449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}