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Perhaps it will be much ado about nothing.

Or maybe it will be somewhere in between Trent Grisham taking ground balls at first base semi-regularly over the past two seasons and Oswaldo Cabrera actually playing first base on occasion after making himself an option there.

But when the Yankees re-signed Amed Rosario earlier this month, Aaron Boone asked the right-handed-hitting utilityman if he had his first-base glove ready. Rosario has played a total of 7,718 innings in the field throughout his big league career across seven different positions — every one except catcher and first base.

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The Yankees are planning on at least seeing if Rosario can be an option at first base this season, though. He occasionally could be a complement to the left-handed-hitting Ben Rice and perhaps mean they will not have to devote more dollars to a righty-hitting first baseman.

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