CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Justus Sheffield pounded his glove before he walked off the field. Not long ago, a Yankees manager might have said, "It's not what you want," about the top pitching prospect's first outing of the spring.
Still, Sheffield said, he had his eyes on the regular season and making his big-league debut -- and not on the fact that he didn't last his planned two innings in Sunday's 8-3 win over the Phillies at Spectrum Field before an announced crowd of 7,951.
"I want to show them that I can pitch at this level," Sheffield said.