Greg Bird is beloved by a huge section of New York Yankees fans who were all over social media reacting to his first days hitting.
Eric Boland tweeted a video of Bird homering off Masahiro Tanaka:
Sim game AB of Greg Bird vs. Tanaka this morning. Larry Rothschild calling balls and strikes. On 3-2 pitch Bird homered off scoreboard in right center pic.twitter.com/LjkZuA179p
And fans went wild with optimism that Bird was back! Not that I want to disagree, it’s just that two days of camp do not a comeback make.