An inning after Volpe fielded a grounder cleanly, he had his first springtime error, dropping the ball on the transfer from his glove to his hand. That was when the hustle double happened.
In his first spring start, Clayton Beeter struck out four batters in three scoreless innings against a lineup that included several Marlins players.
The right-hander, who played his final season at Triple-A, appears to be on the verge of supporting the Yankees in their quest for a starting pitcher.
Beeter looked the part on Thursday night, even if he might not receive as much attention as other pitching prospects like Will Warren and Chase Hampton.
At Steinbrenner Field, Gerrit Cole will start the team’s Grapefruit League opener against the Blue Jays at 6:35
The Texas Rangers’ superior defense helped them win the World Series the previous year. The Rangers made the second-fewest mistakes in baseball in 2023 with 57. The Arizona Diamondbacks, the Rangers’ World Series rivals, were the only club with fewer.
The Rangers committed one of the worst numbers of mistakes in baseball in 2022—96. The team’s mentality was altered by manager Bruce Bochy, and MLB.com predicts that this will continue in 2024 with the return of the majority of the players that fueled the progress. The Rangers performed well in the site’s recent prediction of which clubs would play the greatest defense in 2024.
Their forecasts were based on positional difficulty adjustments, FanGraphs depth charts, and ZiPS estimates. They portray the Rangers
