That headline is a lie, it isn’t the Yankees, it is wannabe Yankees. They have a split squad day and all the ‘real’ Yankees are staying in Tampa.
I can’t really complain, the Jays do the same. There used to be, maybe still is, a rule that a certain number of ‘regulars’ have to be in every spring game, but team ignore it. It is still there:
Major League Baseball’s spring training road trip rules require that, for road games, clubs play “a minimum of four players who were regulars on the previous year’s Major League team or who were platooned on the previous year’s Major League team on a regular basis, or who have a reasonable chance to be regulars on the Major League Club’s squad during the upcoming season.” The regulars are supposed to play “a minimum of three complete innings.”
Team have, in the past, been fined for this. But then MLB team pretty much print their own money. Well, they would, but we give all of ours to them.
Today’s Lineups
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YANKEES |
BLUE JAYS |
|---|---|
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Amed Rosario – 3B |
George Springer – DH |
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J.C. Escarra – C |
Daulton Varsho – CF |
|
Randal Grichuk – LF |
Vladimir Guerrero – 1B |
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Seth Brown – 1B |
Addison Barger – RF |
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Paul DeJong – SS |
Alejandro Kirk – C |
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Yanquiel Fernandez – RF |
Jesus Sanchez – LF |
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Max Schuemann – 2B |
Kazuma Okamoto – 3B |
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Kenedy Corona – CF |
Ernie Clement – 2B |
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Enmanuel Tejeda – DH |
Andres Gimenez – SS |
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Ryan Weathers – LHP |
Cody Ponce – RHP |
Go Jays Go.
There is a Dunedin New Zealand. I’ve been there, it has the oldest Brewery in New Zealand, which was very cool. They had a funny story: The brewery uses water from a spring and they were given use of this water, with the condition that they have a tap for people of the town so they can use the watch too. One year a radio station, on April Fools day, said that, for that day, the tap would have beer running through it.
People lined up for blocks.
I mentioned this because, when looking for a picture of Dunedin, I got pictures of the other Dunedin. It is a beautiful place.
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