Despite the fact that New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said before the game on Wednesday: “I don’t even know, in my mind, if I look at it as a competition,’’ surely Greg Bird and Luke Voit must view it as a virtual life and death struggle, with the loser being assigned to AAA Scranton Wilkes-Barre to begin the season.
The New York Yankees’ first base position battle is still in full effect:
The first base job for the New York Yankees is a much-coveted position around Major League Baseball and if Bird and Voit aren’t fighting tooth and nail to win it, they don’t deserve it.