In last Wednesday’s check in with Greg Bird I mentioned that the Yankees first base prospect was likely the next recipient of a promotion in the Yankees system. Bird was in Double-A with the Trenton Thunder when the post went live and was in Triple-A with the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders before the week was done, who says Brian Cashman and the Yankees don’t read The Greedy Pinstripes?
In all seriousness though Bird was finally effective, and
more importantly healthy, enough to garner the promotion and is in perfect line
to replace Mark Teixeira when his contract expires. Bird will likely spend the
remainder of the season in Scranton barring a catastrophic injury to Garrett
Jones and will at least compete for a job in Spring Training 2016 as long as
everything goes as planned.
The RailRiders now have the great problem of having too many
good players and potentially not enough positions to play them all. Kyle Roller
is an All-Star this season at first base while Austin Romine in behind the
plate, Aaron Judge is in right field and has dabbled in center field some all
while Luis Severino continues to shut guys down on the mound. It’s a great problem
to have and the future looks bright in the Bronx.
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