Spring GameThread: Yankees @ Jays
DUNEDIN, FLORIDA - MARCH 14, 2026: A view of an official Rawlings Major League Baseball base prior to a spring training game between the Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays at TD Ballpark on March 14, 2026 in Dunedin, Florida. (Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images) | Diamond Images/Getty Images That headline is a lie, it isn’t the Yankees, it is wannabe Yankees. They have a split squad day and all the ‘real’ Yankees are staying in Tampa.
I can’t really complain, the Jays do the same. There used to be, maybe still is, a rule that a certain number of ‘regulars’ have to be in every spring game, but team ignore it. It is still there: Major League Baseball’s spring training road trip rules require that, for road games, clubs play “a minimum of four players who were regulars on the previous year’s Major League team or who were platooned on the previous year’s Major League team on a regular basis, or who have a reasonable chance to be regulars on the Major League Club’s squad during the upcoming season.
” The regulars are supposed to play “a minimum of three complete innings. ” Team have, in the past, been fined for this. But then MLB team pretty much print their own money.
Well, they would, but we give all of ours to them. Today’s Lineups YANKEES BLUE JAYS Amed Rosario – 3B George Springer – DH J. C.
Escarra – C Daulton Varsho – CF Randal Grichuk – LF Vladimir Guerrero – 1B Seth Brown – 1B Addison Barger – RF Paul DeJong – SS Alejandro Kirk – C Yanquiel Fernandez – RF Jesus Sanchez – LF Max Schuemann – 2B Kazuma Okamoto – 3B Kenedy Corona – CF Ernie Clement – 2B Enmanuel Tejeda – DH Andres Gimenez – SS Ryan Weathers – LHP Cody Ponce – RHP Go Jays Go. There is a Dunedin New Zealand. I’ve been there, it has the oldest Brewery in New Zealand, which was very cool.