"We've got to see where he's at," said Girardi, who has kept in touch with A-Rod a couple times per month via text. "He's going to be 40 next summer and we've got to see where he's physically at. If he can play the field, how many days he can play the field, how many days he needs to DH. I don't think really any of us know about him until we actually get him into games in spring training."