TAMPA — One day you are Gary Sanchez and Aaron Judge. You are Miguel Andujar and Gleyber Torres.
You are today and tomorrow and, snap, somehow it happens so quick that you are trying not to be yesterday.
Greg Bird came late in the 2015 season and with one precocious at-bat after another seemed to establish himself for long-term residence as the Yankees’ first baseman. He was 22 and he says now how much he was looking forward to seeing all those talented guys he played with in the minors join him in the majors.
Instead, they have passed him, and so has Luke Voit, who was not even a Yankee until July of last season.