In the next few days, an important decision needs to be made at the corner of 161st Street and River Avenue, one that we have not yet discussed here on Pinstripe Alley. No, it doesn’t have to do with the battle for the fifth rotation spot, or the Jay Bruce opt-out — it has nothing to do with roster construction, in fact. Rather, it has to do with something far more important: the fate of the mass vaccination site at Yankee Stadium.
Back on February 3rd, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that a partnership between the the New York Yankees, SOMOS Community Care, and the New York National Guard had made it possible to open up a mass vaccination site at Yankee Stadium, open to residents of the Bronx.