TAMPA, Fla. -- There is a "good chance" that the Yankees will join the list of teams utilizing the "opener" strategy this season, according to manager Aaron Boone, who wants relievers Chad Green and Jonathan Holder to be ready if and when that assignment should come.

Green was first to toe the slab, allowing a first-inning run in Tuesday's 6-2 Grapefruit League victory over the Rays before yielding to Luis Cessa. Holder is getting the ball to "open" on Wednesday against the Astros in West Palm Beach, set to hand off to Domingo German.

"We've been talking about it the last couple of days," Boone said. "It was kind of on our board to get a look at it. I would say at least a few days, we were talking about it and deciding officially a couple days ago. Let's open with them there and give them all a little taste of it."

Green said that the biggest challenge was knowing when to warm up. He began his five to six minutes of throwing from the bullpen mound at about 12:50 p.m. ET, which gave him about 10 minutes to sit in the home dugout before Green threw the game's first pitch at 1:07 p.m. ET.

"You try not to have too much time," Green said. "I warmed up a little too early today. It's nice to do it in Spring Training, just to know how long it takes to warm up. It's going to be a little trial and error, but I think the big difference is that the mound is brand new when you go in. Overall, it's pretty much the same."

Though Boone initially seemed ambivalent about the opener craze last season, a strategy popularized by the Rays and followed by several clubs (including the A's, who used Liam Hendriks to open the American League Wild Card Game at Yankee Stadium), the Yankees did use one on Sept. 24 when Holder started a 4-1 victory over the Rays at Tropicana Field.

With the Wild Card having been clinched two nights before and the division decided, the idea then was to allow Boone and pitching coach Larry Rothschild to align their rotation for postseason games.

Now, it would be to help withstand the injury that will keep Luis Severino out of action until at least May 1, plus the delayed arrivals of CC Sabathia and perhaps Gio Gonzalez, who is not expected to be ready for the season opener after verbally agreeing to a Minor League contract on Monday.

"It's just another thing you can throw at a different team," Green said. "I wouldn't say every team is capable of doing it, but it seems like our bullpen is deep enough where we're able to cover some innings. For us, I think it makes sense. It's something that I could see us using throughout the year."