Game 48: The Return of Greg Bird

(Presswire)At long last, the Yankees are whole on offense*. Greg Bird rejoined the Yankees today and he’ll make his season debut tonight. He had ankle surgery at the end of Spring Training and the recovery timetable put him on track to return in late May, and wouldn’t you know it, he’s actually back in late May. Hooray for that.

The Yankees have been woefully short on left-handed power this season — their lefty bats have 18 homers and a .386 SLG, which is pretty terrible — and Bird can help fix that. Even with all the injury problems, he’s hit 23 homers with a .480 SLG in 108 career big league games, postseason included. That’ll play. A blowout win would be nice today. Sock some dingers, let…