THE HAMMER FALLS ON CERTAIN YANKEES

Just wanted to keep you in the loop on some interesting developments around Yankeeland as they finalize their rosters just one week before Opening Day.

First off, our friend Russ Canzler.  We like Russ at BYB and today we wrote a great piece about him titled COULD RUSS CANZLER BE THE KEY BACKUP AT FIRST BASE?

The problem is he was reassigned just a few short hours after we posted that piece.  That’s what happens right around this time of year.  Guys play their guts out with the hope and dream of making it, but he didn’t and was reassigned… that’s baseball.

That’s not all though:

Preston Claiborne has been optioned to AAA.  According to Chad Jennings of LoHud who chatted with Girardi, the Yankees thought he would do much better this Spring.  Girardi said: “He just really never got on a role in spring training. As we told him, we know he’s capable of pitching much better than he did. It’s his job just to go get ready.”

Other guys are Zoilo Almonte, an outfielder. He was also optioned to AAA.  That means Ichiro Suzuki is in fact sticking with the Yankees and all those rumors from Buster Olney and Jon Heyman about "Ichiro’s days numbered" are just crap, at least for now.

Scott Sizemore will join Canzler. He too was reassigned.

As Chad Jennings writes: “... It’s basically down to Eduardo Nunez, Yangervis Solarte, Dean Anna and Zelous Wheeler for two bench spots. Nunez and Anna are on the 40-man."

Just wanted to keep you in the loop. I love our BYB audience.

The new baseball season is 1 week away… I can’t wait!

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