KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Rodriguez will report today to the Yankees’ spring training complex in Tampa, Fla., to continue his rehabilitation from right hip surgery.
Rodriguez had surgery March 9 in Vail to remove an impingement in the joint and drain a cyst in the hip.
“I’m very encouraged,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said before Sunday’s game against the Royals. “To have a labrum surgery and be doing what he is doing already is very encouraging.”
Girardi said Rodriguez would stretch, do agility work, light jogging, take some grounders, hit off a tee and take soft-toss swings today.
“He has long days,” Girardi said. “It is not like normal spring training where you show up for a couple of hours and you go home.”
With the Yankees opening a series tonight at Tampa Bay, Girardi said he expects Rodri- guez to be at the game.
Rodriguez hit .302 with an American League-leading .573 slugging percentage last season. The three-time MVP is expected to return to the lineup in May.
First baseman Mark Teixeira, who signed a $180 million, eight-year contract with the Yankees in the offseason, was held out of the lineup Sunday for the second consecutive game with tendinitis in his left wrist.
