Almost one month ago, Luke Voit and Greg Bird continued to tear up spring training and seemingly make things difficult for the Yankees’ brass to decide who deserved the first base spot. Brian Cashman responded by saying that he didn’t think both would be on the Opening Day roster, meaning one would start the season down in Triple-A.
That looked more and more like Bird as spring training came to a close. Sure, he was doing his usual song and dance of crushing baseballs on the exhibition stage, but so was Voit.