NEW YORK | Yankees manager Joe Girardi won’t know until March what to expect of Alex Rodriguez in 2015.

FILE - In this April 1, 2013, file photo, reporters surround New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez who held an impromptu press conference outside the clubhouse door before the Yankees Opening Day baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York. A lawyer for the University of Miami's former pitching coach says Alex Rodriguez admitted to federal investigators he used steroids. Attorney Frank Quintero Jr., who represents Lazaro Collazo in his defense of charges of conspiracy to distribute performance-enhancing drugs, told The Associated Press that the New York Yankees third baseman confessed to steroids use, according to Drug Enforcement Administration documents provided by the government to lawyers in the case. The Miami Herald first reported Rodriguez's confession Wednesday,Nov. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
FILE – In this April 1, 2013, file photo, reporters surround New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez who held an impromptu press conference outside the clubhouse door before the Yankees Opening Day baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York. A lawyer for the University of Miami’s former pitching coach says Alex Rodriguez admitted to federal investigators he used steroids. Attorney Frank Quintero Jr., who represents Lazaro Collazo in his defense of charges of conspiracy to distribute performance-enhancing drugs, told The Associated Press that the New York Yankees third baseman confessed to steroids use, according to Drug Enforcement Administration documents provided by the government to lawyers in the case. The Miami Herald first reported Rodriguez’s confession Wednesday,Nov. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
FILE – In this April 1, 2013, file photo, reporters surround New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez who held an impromptu press conference outside the clubhouse door before the Yankees Opening Day baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York. A lawyer for the University of Miami’s former pitching coach says Alex Rodriguez admitted to federal investigators he used steroids. Attorney Frank Quintero Jr., who represents Lazaro Collazo in his defense of charges of conspiracy to distribute performance-enhancing drugs, told The Associated Press that the New York Yankees third baseman confessed to steroids use, according to Drug Enforcement Administration documents provided by the government to lawyers in the case. The Miami Herald first reported Rodriguez’s confession Wednesday,Nov. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Rodriguez was limited to 44 games in 2013 following hip surgery, then was suspended for all of this season for violations of baseball’s drug agreement and labor contract.

Girardi spoke to the third baseman about potentially playing some first base on days Mark Teixeira is given off. Girardi says “we’re going to have to see where he’s at in spring training. But he’s working and trying to get prepared.”

Girardi was at Yankee Stadium for the team’s United Service Organizations event to pack goods for U.S. servicemen and servicewomen.

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