Open Thread: March 13th Camp Notes

The Yankees lost 3-0 to the Phillies this afternoon. CC Sabathia allowed three runs (two earned) on five hits and one walk in 1.2 innings. One scout told Erik Boland Sabathia was 86-89 mph and his “breaking ball (was) not playing at all against right-handed hitters”. That’s nothing new. Michael Pineda allowed one hit and one walk in three scoreless innings. He struck out four. Dellin Betances struck out the only man he faced and Aroldis Chapman struck out three in his scoreless inning.

Starlin Castro had two of the team’s five hits. Chase Headley, Didi Gregorius, and Carlos Corporan had the other three. The Yankees made five errors as a team (Sabathia, Castro, Chapman, Aaron Hicks, Dustin Fowler) and all but Fowler’s were pretty hilarious. Joe Girardi let everyone sleep in today because of daylight savings time says Jared Diamond, and geez, it was obvious on the field. Lots of sloppy defense and lackadaisical play in general. Everyone was looking forward to tomorrow’s off-day, I guess. Here’s the box score, here are the video highlights, and here are the day’s notes from Tampa:

• The Yankees announced their first round of roster cuts after the game: LHP Jacob Lindgren was optioned to Triple-A Scranton and RHP Domingo German, RHP Chad Green, RHP Kyle Haynes, RHP James Kaprielian, RHP Brady Lail, C Santiago Nessy, LHP Tyler Webb, C Francisco Diaz, C Kyle Higashioka, C Sebastian Valle, IF Jorge Mateo, IF Deibinson Romero, IF Tyler Wade, OF Lane Adams, OF Aaron Judge, and OF Dustin Fowler were all reassigned to minor league camp. Lindgren is the only real surprise. There are still 53 players in big league camp.
• Brian McCann was removed from this afternoon’s game for precautionary reasons after taking a foul pitch just above the knee cap. It stiffened up a bit afterwards. McCann said he would have remained in the game if it were the regular season during an in-game interview. [Jack Curry]
• Brett Gardner (wrist) took nine at-bats in a simulated game and everything went well. The Yankees are going to see how he feels tomorrow before finalizing any plans, but right now Gardner is tentative scheduled to play in his first spring game Wednesday. [Bryan Hoch, Curry]
• Tomorrow is the first off-day of the Grapefruit League season and it’s a full off-day. No workouts or anything scheduled. The Yankees play their first night game of the spring Tuesday. Ivan Nova gets the start and the game will be televised.

This is tonight’s open thread. This afternoon’s game will be replayed on YES after tonight’s Nets game, so figure it should start around 11pm ET or so. MLB Network is showing the Rangers and Angels live right now, then there will be games on tape delay the rest of the night. Both the Knicks and Nets are playing later tonight and there’s some college hoops on the schedule too. Talk about anything other than religion or politics here. Thanks in advance.