TAMPA — The Yankees pegged for Austin Wells' Grapefruitreeg's debut on Friday.
However, the catcher had other ideas.
Wells wanted to catch Will Warren, who was starting an exhibition against the Cardinals on Wednesday, so he made his point to Aaron Boone, who mandated three cameos that looked sharp on both ends of the battery.
“I think [Warren] It's going to be an important part of the team and he has something really bothering me, so I wanted to try and access the same page as him. “So it was important for me to get in there.”
Warren looked strong, turning 9, at age 9 while batting four of the first five batters he faced.
Wells didn't look very tattered either, and hit the ball out of the bat at 100.1 and 103.9 mph.
The Yankees already have six major league starters in five spots, but Warren represents the next arm. – It can become more and more important when they trade Marcus Stromann or get a rotational injury.
The focus of right-handers this spring was to go ahead with the batsmen. He felt he wasn't doing enough last season, giving up on his 26 runs as a big leaguer in his first 22²/₃ innings.
“Looking back at some of the last year, I was always fighting back,” said Warren, who revived curveball and refined the changeup in hopes of having more weapons to attack left-handed batsmen. “These are the greatest hitters in the world, so it's difficult to sell when set up to succeed.”
Gerrit Call His Grapefruitreeg will make his debut against the Blue Jays at Stein Brenner Field on Friday night. …Booon told Giancarlo Stanton, who remains in New York on Wednesday after having had personal problems for the third day in a row, “I have nothing to report.”
Clark Schmidt (back) throws two bullpen sessions on Tuesday and is scheduled to practice live batting by the end of this weekend. …Scott Efross (hamstrings) had an imaging experience, but the results were not found on Wednesday afternoon. .
Former Met Dominique Smith has been home for the second day in a row. This is because without the help of the wind, non-roster invitees recruited Cardinals' top pitching prospects and delved deeper into a 392-foot shot.
