Selected in the 12th round of the 2021 MLB Draft by the New York Yankees out of Dartmouth... signed with the Yankees on July 28, 2021... was a non-roster invitee to Yankees Spring Training in 2024... moved up to Triple-A Scranton/Wiikes-Barre on June 5, 2024 before the Yankees called him up on June 18, 2024 ahead of his Major League debut after Anthony Rizzo went on the IL with a fractured arm... was ranked by MLB as the Yankees' No. 12 prospect at the time he was called up in June 2024... played baseball and hockey in high school before joining Dartmouth, where he played in just 30 games over three years due to the Covid-19 pandemic... was scouted by the Yankees playing summer league ball -- he hit .300 in 30 at-bats for the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod League before being drafted by the New York Yankees with the 363rd pick in the 12th round of the MLB Draft... has seen time in the Minors at catcher, first base and as a DH... was named a Yankees Organizational All-Star by MiLB.com in 2023 and was named the Eastern League Player of the Month for August 2023 while with Double-A Somerset... attended Noble & Greenough School before college, where he played for head coach Rob Murray... served as captain of the baseball team as a senior when he was named first-team All-Independent School League and the team MVP... he also earned the Sziklas Award as the player who contributed the most to the hockey team... member of the ISL Keller Division championship hockey team as a freshman as the squad posted a 21-3-1 record... born Feb. 22, 1999 in Cohasset, Massachusetts... son of Dan and Sophie Rice; he has one brother and one sister... his father played baseball at Brown in the mid-’80s and his brother Sam was a distance swimmer at the University of Tennessee