Spring Training News & Notes From Day Four

Is it really already day four of Spring Training? Are our pitchers really throwing live batting practice already? Where does the time go. Carlos Beltran made his appearance at Yankees camp for the first time, the catchers took batting practice from out pitchers, and Michael Pineda was on the mound. It was an awesome day down in Tampa at the Yankees camp, here are a few notes from today.

Yoshinori Tateyama finally has his visa issues out of the way and has made it to the United States and Yankees camp today for the first time. Tateyama is already in full workout mode and likely has to catch up to the rest of the pitchers in camp.

Michael Pineda and Jose Campos both threw bullpen sessions today coming off of injuries and steps back after being acquired by New York from the Mariners.

Francisco Arcia, Peter O'Brien, and Jose Gil were scheduled to take batting practice against David Phelps, Adam Warren, Dellin Betances, and others.

Speaking of batting practice Mark Teixeira took outside batting practice for the second straight day today and hit a ton of line drives.

Once again a big thank you to Chad Jennings for the batting practice and bullpen assignments. He really does the best job of anyone in the Yankees blogosphere covering the Yankees Spring Training.

· Live batting practice
David Phelps (Brian McCann catching; Sanchez hitting)
Adam Warren (Francisco Cervelli catching; McCann hitting)
Jim Miller (Austin Romine catching; Cervelli hitting)
Vidal Nuno (John Ryan Murphy catching; Romine hitting)
Preston Claiborne (Gary Sanchez catching; Murphy hitting)

· Going to the minor league complex to throw BP around 11 a.m.
Dellin Betances
Dan Burawa
Robert Coello
Shane Greene
Fred Lewis
Bryan Mitchell
Jose Ramirez
Francisco Rondon
Nik Turley
Chase Whitley