Tyler Austin has re-established prospect value and could be knocking on the door.
This has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad season for Yankees first basemen.
In retrospect, losing Greg Bird to a season-ending labrum tear in February was a sign of things to come. Mark Teixeira has been awful and hurt and then awful again. Dustin Ackley was mostly awful before he suffered a season-ending labrum tear of his own. Chris Parmelee made a cameo appearance before being lost to a hamstring injury. Ike Davis was....well, he was Ike Davis.
The blackhole grew large enough that Rob Refsnyder served (admirably) as an interim-first baseman.