Ben Rice showed up to camp this month after putting on about 10 pounds since he was called up by the Yankees last June, most of which appears to be muscle in his upper body as he tried to fill out his 6-foot-2 frame over the winter.
The Yankees are giving Domínguez a long runway this spring to make the full-time transition from center field to left field, after his late-season experiment there last year did not go well.
Devin Williams spoke to Hal Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman last week to voice his preference for keeping his beard, but didn’t think anything would come of it.