It will be a short commute for many of the Yankees' pitchers and catchers, who have already been in the Tampa area for some time, working out at the club's Minor League complex. Among them: Nathan Eovaldi, Jacob Lindgren, Andrew Miller, Bryan Mitchell, Ivan Nova, Michael Pineda, Gary Sanchez and Luis Severino.
Masahiro Tanaka, who created a minor stir when he said that he was not sure if he would be ready to start on Opening Day due to offseason elbow surgery, is also scheduled to return to Tampa after traveling to New York for the birth of his first child.