TAMPA — At some point over the next few days, Aaron Boone will call a player into his office or pull him aside and inform him that he is making the Opening Day roster for the first time in his big league career.

It will happen for Oswaldo Cabrera, though that isn’t much of a surprise by now.

It may happen for a reliever or two such as Greg Weissert or Matt Krook.

And it will happen for a shortstop to be determined, either Oswald Peraza or Anthony Volpe, after they compete in a battle that the Yankees insist they will take down to the wire.