Earlier today, MLB announced that Robinson Cano, Albert Pujols, Adam Jones, and Yasiel Puig will headline a group of players heading over to Japan to play a five-game All-Star series against the Japanese National Team in November. Ron Washington will manage. The rest of the roster will be unveiled at a later date, and I have to think a Yankee will go given the team’s popularity and marketability. The question is who. Jacoby Ellsbury? Brett Gardner? Maybe Dellin Betances? Pitchers will be tricky because they’ll either have a long layoff (miss postseason) or a heavy workload (play in postseason). I guess we’ll find out soon enough. I’ll be very surprised if the Yankees don’t send a player.
Here is tonight’s open thread. The Staten Island Yankees will be on SNY, plus the Little League World Series is on and MLB Network will air a regional game. There’s also a preseason NFL game on as well. Lots of sports tonight. Sports sports sports. Talk about any of those games, November’s All-Star series in Japan, this afternoon’s win, or anything else right here.
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