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Sweeny: Bird Is Again The Word At First Base For Yankees

By Sweeny Murti
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFAN) — Here’s the scary part about Greg Bird’s spectacular 2015 debut with the Yankees. He knew all along that this shoulder wasn’t right.

So when you ask him if he feels like he did before last February’s surgery on the torn labrum in his left shoulder, Bird tells you something that makes your ears perk up.

“I feel better in a lot of ways,” Bird said after an early morning round of batting practice Monday at Steinbrenner Field. “And I think that it’ll continue to get better as I get more and more used to just playing every day.