Baseball is a weird sport. Every single day the game will show you something you’ve never seen before, yet so much of what happens on the field is a repeat of something we’ve seen countless times before. We’ve all seen bloop singles and majestic homers and down-and-away sliders for a swinging strike. We watch for the weird, not the the history that repeats itself.
So far this spring the weird has avoided Yankees’ camp, and that’s a good thing. Weird can be fun, but a boring run of the mill Spring Training is a-okay with me. History may be repeating itself on two fronts, however, and with the organization’s top two position player prospects.