Including today, the Yankees only have five more exhibition games to play this spring. Four Grapefruit League games plus Monday’s exhibition game at Nationals Park. We’re beginning to see the light at the end of the Spring Training tunnel. Soon meaningful baseball will return.
The Yankees are on the other side of Florida to play the Cardinals today and they are using a true Spring Training lineup. The bare minimum regulars and a whole bunch of minor leaguers. That’s what happens when you play back-to-back days 200 miles away from the home base and don’t want to send guys on long bus trips.