We’re not right here to foretell that Ben Rice is on the identical trajectory as Aaron Decide — or wherever near it, for that matter.
However Decide does know a bit of one thing about taking some lumps in his first style of the massive leagues and coming again for 12 months 2 with a vengeance.
“I think it’s like taking a test,” Decide mentioned earlier than this season started, in gentle of the variety of younger gamers the Yankees had been banking on taking vital steps ahead, Rice included.
“You take a little practice test, see the test, see what’s going to happen, see what you’re going to be facing, what the grind’s about, the routine. It just helps you prepare for that next season. Because when you get called up, you don’t know what you’re getting into. You’ve never experienced that before. People have told you about it, but until you step between those lines and really do it, you don’t know what it’s about. So for me, it helped me prepare the right way and know what’s ahead of us.”
