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Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports NJ Advance Media | Brendan Kuty (via Twitter): Yankees manager Aaron Boone is very impressed with what he has seen from Nick Nelson so far in spring training. According to the skipper, he could potentially have an “immediate” job as a reliever in a Jonathan Loásiga-type role, which means as a multi-inning guy. The right-hander has a power arm and showed glimpses of his potential in 2020, when he had a 4.79 ERA in 20.2 frames. During Grapefruit League play, Nelson has a shiny 0.00 ERA in 6.1 innings, with no walks and six whiffs. Since Zack Britton is going to...

Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Spring training is a time for experimentation. Pitchers try to add new pitches to their arsenals, position players try their hands at new positions to increase their versatility — there have even been cases of players working to become switch-hitters during preseason workouts, as the Rays’ Ji-Man Choi attempted in 2020. In a similar vein, the YES Network has used this spring’s exhibition games to experiment a bit: in order to spruce up a broadcast in which only one person from the YES team, Meredith Marakovits, is actually at the game (the other two have eit...

Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports When spring training began, the Yankees’ catching plans seemed pretty straight forward. Gary Sánchez was the team’s starter behind the dish. Kyle Higashioka was the backup and, in light of Erik Kratz’s retirement, the Yankees brought in Robinson Chirinos as an injury replacement option. The 36-year-old veteran signed a minor league contract with the team in February. Now that Chirinos is sidelined indefinitely due to a fractured wrist, those best-laid catching plans are now in flux. Sánchez, in particular, has a lengthy track record of soft-tissue injuries...

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Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images The Yankees entered spring training with two pitchers at the top of their priority list: Jameson Taillon and Corey Kluber. Seeing them healthy and productive after being almost entirely absent in 2020 would go a long way toward building confidence in the team’s rotation. Taillon has done his part so far, and while he wasn’t at his sharpest during his Friday start against the Tigers, he still kept them off the board. He worked around two walks and a double by Wilson Ramos to get through the first two frames unscathed, then walked Robbie Grossman and gave...