NJ.com · Mar 14, 2018
Handicapping Yankees' second base opening again with Neil Walker in mix
TAMPA — When spring training began, the Yankees had five contenders for their open second base position.
Or so we thought.
Based on whom manager Aaron Boone has been playing at second in the Yankees’ first 18 Grapefruit League games, it’s clear that there were three favorites:
Gleyber Torres, Tyler Wade and non-roster Danny Espinosa.
Espinosa was released on Monday and Torres was reassigned to the minor-league camp on Tuesday.
Wade is still around and now competing with a new guy who has been a pretty good big-league second baseman for the last eight seasons, Neil Walker.
Jace Peterson, a non-roster player who started at second for Atlanta in 2016, still is officially in the mix