The sun is shining, the grass is green, people are refusing to follow public health guidelines, we’re all far too obsessed with Gary Sánchez’s at-bats ... baseball — even exhibition, seven-inning baseball — is back. The Yankees dropped their first spring contest, losing 6-4 to the Blue Jays in a planned seven-inning game.
Michael King did not look good in his first outing of the Grapefruit League season. Any kind of serious evaluation at this point in the spring is pretty foolish, but the results in two innings weren’t what we wanted. On the plus side, King touched 97 with his fastball and sat around 96.