Thursday, March 28, 2013

Boesch Joining Team On Opening Day

After reading that Lyle Overbay and Ben Francisco will make the team, I've learned that Brian Cashman told Joel Sherman that Brennan Boesch will also be with the Yankees on Opening Day.

Based on this information I think the Active Roster, positional player-wise, is going to look like this:

Starters
Catcher - Francisco Cervelli
1st Base - Lyle Overbay
2nd Base - Robinson Cano
3rd Base - Kevin Youkilis
Shortstop - Eduardo Nunez
Left Field - Vernon Wells
Center Field - Brett Gardner
Right Field - Ichiro Suzuki
Designated Hitter - Travis Hafner

Bench
Chris Stewart (C)
Ben Francisco (RF/LF)
Brennan Boesch (RF/LF)
Jayson Nix (2B/3B/SS)

Although, since their Opening Day game is against a lefty (Jon Lester), I could see Nix starting at 3B, Youkilis starting at 1B, and Lyle Overbay being on the bench. Either way I'm pretty underwhelmed.

For the hell of it, I decided to put together a starting lineup if everybody on the team were healthy:

Starters
Catcher - Francisco Cervelli
1st Base - Mark Teixeira
2nd Base - Robinson Cano
3rd Base - Alex Rodriguez
Shortstop - Derek Jeter
Left Field - Brett Gardner
Center Field - Curtis Granderson
Right Field - Ichiro Suzuki
Designated Hitter - Travis Hafner (LHB)/Kevin Youkilis (RHB)

Bench
Chris Stewart (C)
Kevin Youkilis (1B/3B)/Travis Hafner (DH)
Vernon Wells (OF)
Eduardo Nunez (2B/3B/SS)

That makes me feel a little better about things. Although we may not see Rodriguez nor Teixeira again this season.

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