Teixeira pegged as the next great Yankee

While the Yanks don’t begin their competitive Spring Training schedule until next week and Opening Day is still a few weeks away, already Mark Teixeira has been anointed the Yankee savior in the wake of the A-Rod scandal. Steve Politi in The Star-Ledger called the latest first baseman a Yankee throwback in a recent profile. Considering that Teixeira will be around for the next eight years, it’s a reasonable if lofty expectation. The rhetoric though can be a bit tough to stomach before Teixeira takes his first Yankee AB.