It’s been a long journey to the big leagues for J.C. Escarra, but Yankees manager Aaron Boone officially informed the 29-year-old that he has cracked the team’s Opening Day roster on Saturday afternoon.
The skipper called Escarra into his office and joked with him that he was being sent back down to the minors — before telling him that he has “earned this opportunity” to head north with the club.
“What a journey,” Boone told Escarra. “It’s just getting started again. Now we have real things to go chase. You’ve earned that right — we have a lot of good people in that room that you’ve earned the right to be here and to be that guy.