CLEARWATER, Fla. — Two automobiles don’t fit into a one-car garage.
That is the only way to view the Yankees’ first-base competition between Greg Bird and Luke Voit. Barring an injury, one is going to make the Opening Day roster and the other is going to get a Triple-A stall in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
If Bird and Voit could play another position, it might be possible for Aaron Boone to carry both, but they don’t. In a time when versatility has emerged as the darling of roster configuration, Bird and Voit are strictly first basemen who could DH, but the Yankees have Giancarlo Stanton to do that.