The Yankees are back in action tonight following yesterday’s off-day, their first of the Grapefruit League season. The big story tonight is CC Sabathia’s spring debut. This will be his first game action of any kind since last May thanks to his knee issue aside from his recent simulated game, but that doesn’t really count.
Everything has gone well for Sabathia in Spring Training so far — he’s thrown bullpens and simulated games and all that and reported no problems with the knee — so tonight is about preparing for the season. Getting stretched out and developing a feel for his pitches. That sort of thing. Hopefully he makes it through in one piece.
Tonight’s reason to watch: Sabathia, obviously. I know people are going obsess over the radar gun but I have no reason to think Sabathia’s velocity is coming back. He’s 34 and has a million miles on his arm. I’m going to looking at his location more than anything. Is Sabathia consistently hitting the glove? That’s most important.
Here is the starting lineup that face the visiting Blue Jays tonight:
- LF Brett Gardner
- 3B Alex Rodriguez
- RF Carlos Beltran
- 1B Mark Teixeira
- C Brian McCann
- DH Garrett Jones
- CF Chris Young
- 2B Stephen Drew
- SS Didi Gregorius
LHP CC Sabathia
Available Pitchers & Position Players: I haven’t seen tonight’s lineup card floating around anywhere so I have no idea who is coming off the bench or out of the bullpen tonight. Sorry.
It’s nice and sunny in Tampa this evening. No clouds and it’s cool, with temperatures in the low-to-mid-70s. Tonight’s game is scheduled to begin at 7pm ET and there are plenty of ways to watch: YES, MLB Network, and MLB.tv are all showing the game live. It will be blacked out in the Yankees’ market on MLB Network but not MLB.tv. Enjoy the game.
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