The biggest news yesterday was obviously that the Yankees finally released Jacoby Ellsbury. I don’t care that the only reason they did it was because insurance would not cover the final year of his contract, I’m just happy he’s finally out of our lives.

The biggest news yesterday was obviously that the Yankees finally released Jacoby Ellsbury. I don’t care that the only reason they did it was because insurance would not cover the final year of his contract, I’m just happy he’s finally out of our lives.

The second biggest story line from yesterday was that the Yankees designated Greg Bird for assignment. Now, this does not mean we’ve seen the end of Bird. Nobody could pick him up and he could wind up back with the Yankees in spring training, but I imagine some team will fall in love with his sweet left-handed swing because they watched that one clip of him hitting a home run off Andrew Miller a thousand times (don’t deny it, we all have.