TAMPA — This won’t go down as the best day in Yankees camp, if nothing else than for this reason:
Jacoby Ellsbury ranked as the second-least discouraged center fielder at George M. Steinbrenner Field.
Yes, the Yankees’ $153 million apparition still roams among the living, we confirmed on Sunday, as he reported to spring training about a month later than his teammates. Plantar fasciitis, an unanticipated side effect he incurred while rehabilitating from last year’s surgery, had kept him flying solo in Arizona, just as he operated lone-wolf style for the entirety of 2018 while coping with enough ailments to fill a season’s worth of “House” episodes.