In the wake of the Greg Bird injury and Mike Ford promotion, the Yankees found themselves short of depth at first base. According to Chris Cotillo, the team remedied that by agreeing to sign veteran first baseman Logan Morrison to a minor league contract. Max Wildstein first reported that a deal was close.
Morrison, 31, is a career .239/.325/.427 hitter with a 106 wRC+ across portions of nine seasons in the big leagues. He spent all of 2018 with the Minnesota Twins, where he hit .