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Game 31: Yankees win over the Braves 6-4

Today was an important day for some Yankee players. Some made a good impression and some didn’t. Some will remain on the team and some might get released. Let’s look at the players battling for spots.

Melky Cabrera:

He’s battling Brett Gardner for the center field position. He didn’t hurt himself by going 3-for-4 with 1 run scored. His average for the spring is now .346. I still don’t think he has potential to be great. To me, he’ll always be a good defensive center-fielder who’s an average hitter.

Brett Gardner:

Just last week we were talking about how Gardner had the starting center field position locked up. After going 0-for-2 with a strikeout, his position isn’t so secured.

Brett Tomko:

He pitched 3 innings of shut out ball lowering his spring era to 1.17. I don’t know how he’s winning this spring training battle between Alfredo Aceves and Dan Giese for the long reliever position. Tomko has been a pretty terrible pitcher his whole career. His numbers speak for themselves this spring and he’s winning going away.

Dan Giese:

He let in 3 runs but only 1 of them was earned. Still, he was very effective last year but his era this spring is 6.89. That’s not good for some one who’s fastball tops out at 87 mph and throws a bunch of off speed pitches. I like Giese because he was good last year. It will be a shame to see him not make the 40 man roster.

Alfredo Aceves:

He gave up an earned run in 3 innings but has a 4.60 spring era. He’ll most likely be sent down to the minors.

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We have a good idea that Brett Tomko will win the long reliever role because he’s earned it but it’s hard to say which way Joe Girardi will go with Gardner and Cabrera.

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I’d like to mention that the YesNetwork is a bad tv station. Today I was watching Matsui’s grand slam game and they messed it up. The game froze while Matsui was rounding the bases. Then when the game went back on, they didn’t reshow Matsui’s home run. Talk about anti-climatic. Yes, we need them for the Yankees but that’s all they are good for.

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