Yates will be on the Yankees' Opening Day roster, Wallace Matthews of ESPN New York reports.
The 29-year-old right-hander will have a chance to make his mark at the major league level this season out of the Yankees' bullpen after two very different campaigns with the Rays in 2014 and 2015 (3.75 ERA in 2014, 7.97 ERA in 2015). He has been almost unhittable this spring with a 12.3 K/9 rate to go with a .409 WHIP coming into Saturday. He'll be a middle innings option for an already loaded Yankees bullpen.