This might be the year for Greg Bird. Sound familiar? It should, but seriously, this might be the year for Greg Bird. Multiple underwhelming seasons and an organizational desire to avoid carrying two full-time first basemen meant Bird’s chances of making the big league roster were very slim just a month ago, but Bird just won’t go away. There’s still has a long way to go before anyone can say he’s unquestionably the best first baseman in the organization, but right now, the Yankee first base competition is far from settled.
Luke Voit came into spring training as the top first baseman on the depth chart and reasonably so, but since camp broke, Bird has done quite literally everything possible to keep the competition alive.