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Kyle Higashioka was very much looking forward to last Thursday at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. He was primed to be Gary Sanchez' backup with Austin Romine moving on to Detroit.So that Opening Day would've been the first in his career. Instead, he was in Bend, Oregon doing workouts to prepare for whenever that Opening Day comes around - if ever - this year.' Thursday would have been my first major league Opening Day,' Higashioka penned in. 'But, to be honest, I didn't really think about it during the day.' I think over the years I've gotten pretty good about only worrying about stuff I can control.

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I know that right now, my goal is to stay ready for when the season does start. Mx vs atv supercross encore for xbox 360. As long as I'm prepared for it, then good things can happen.' How has he been preparing?

Higashioka has a ton of space at his in-laws' farm in Oregon to work out. He explained how he has a pitching machine that he'll set up in a barn to do catching drills with his wife, Alyse, feeding it with baseballs. He also has foam balls he can hit.' No, there are no animals in the barn when I'm working on my catching,' he wrote.

'It does smell like hay in there, but that isn't too bad.' After baseball drills, Higashioka is picking up the guitar more often than he has in a while.' Sometimes I play guitar, sometimes I play video games. On the guitar, I think I'm getting sharper, making fewer mistakes. Although my peak guitar ability was a few years ago, when I was living by myself. When you're married, you don't want to play guitar a few hours a day.' And as is the case with many players right now, video game chats have been a great way to stay connected with teammates throughout this hiatus.

NBA players are setting up a players-only NBA 2K tournament, for example.For Higashioka, FIFA is the game of choice with Tommy Kahnle and Adam Ottavino, while Call of Duty is also a favorite.' I'm in touch with a lot of my teammates, sometimes one-on-one (I talk with Mike Tauchman a lot), sometimes in a group text,' he also admitted.And that's about all Higashioka can do, like the rest of his teammates, to stay ready for the season.

There has been no indication as to when the season will begin, with MLB still working on what a season could look like in 2020.' To the fans, I guess I would just say hang in there,' Higashioka said. 'Hopefully, at the very least, baseball is going to come back at sometime this year and we can all have that normal, everyday stuff. And we can still have Opening Day.' Scott Thompson, SNY.tv Right now, the Yankees are simply worrying about whether or not they're going to have a season to play in 2020. But, with the hiatus, it's worth examining how this roster is set up at the moment, and more specifically, how it could change next season and in the short-term future.This season, the Yankees are primed to contend for a World Series title, and that was evident when GM Brian Cashman said you know what to the luxury tax threshold and paid Gerrit Cole $324 million over the next nine seasons to be his bonafide ace. That was added to the massive amount remaining on Giancarlo Stanton's contract.So, as of now, the Yankees are at, which is well over the $208 million threshold.

A World Series would definitely suffice with that kind of spending. But what about spending for the future?

With coronavirus continuing to spread in the United States, Yankees RHP Masahiro Tanaka decided it was best to fly to Japan with his family.Tanaka tweeted out in Japanese his reasoning for returning home with his wife and 1-year-old, which had translated by a Japanese member of the media.' By entering Japan from the United States where the new coronavirus is expanding, even though we currently have no symptoms, would you still infect someone without knowing it?'

'Wouldn't my family get infected? There were various thoughts.' Matt Blake's first year as pitching coach of the Yankees wasn't supposed to go this way. But, nevertheless, this is how things are with the league suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.Blake's pitchers were starting to hit their stride, as they prepared for Opening Day that would've been this past Thursday. But now.well, Blake is working off an online spreadsheet to track their at-home workouts all over the country.'

There's no playbook here,' Blake told. 'Nobody's ever gone through it, so there's no tried-and-true recipe to fall back on.'

As the world was looking at the NBA and their first case of coronavirus among their players, the Yankees announced that they had a minor leaguer in their camp that, making it the first case in MLB.For minor leaguer Matt Minnick, that was the moment his eyes really opened to the coronavirus pandemic.' It was surreal,' Minnick told the. 'We know what was going on in the world, but suddenly we were on a conference call with doctors talking about it.

I was concerned for the player and his family. For me, I wasn't scared, I felt fine. It was just surreal.' Former Yankee Alex Rodriguez took some time out of his day on Sunday to talk with Mets superstar 1B Pete Alonso about anything from baseball to what the reigning NL Rookie of the Year likes to cook.But, when A-Rod's Q&A was over, he asked Alonso if he had anything to ask and the youngster asked a very good question that had an even better answer.Alonso wanted to know how Rodriguez dealt with the pressure of hearing boos, specifically when he was going through his appeal process after being suspended 211 games for PED use. The Yankees were playing the Red Sox in August - right after the suspension was slapped on him - and the Fenway Park faithful were definitely letting Rodriguez hear it. MLB and the Players Association agreed to a deal regarding how a shortened 2020 season would be handled, and part of the deal impacts players currently facing suspensions under the joint domestic violence policy.SNY's Andy Martino confirmed that under the new agreement, a player like Domingo German (who has 63 games remaining on a suspension that began last season) will still have to serve the current time left on his suspension in 2020.

But if the season is significantly shortened or even canceled, the suspension will not carry over to the 2021 season.German was originally, retroactive to Sept.19, which is when the right-hander was first placed on administrative leave by MLB. Andy Martino, SNY.tv A series of Yankees roster moves Thursday brought one surprise, when the team sent top pitching prospect Deivi Garcia all the way down to Double-A Trenton.Garcia struggled in spring training, going 0-2 with a 7.46 ERA. But it turns out that the demotion had nothing to do with his performance - 'zero,' according to a source - and does not preclude Garcia from starting the season in New York, which is still in play.As a source explained the move, rosters were frozen and the Yankees only had three spots at Triple-A Scranton. Those went to players with major league service time - pitchers Michael King and Ben Heller, and infielder Thairo Estrada. With Scranton full, Garcia went to Trenton. But that was only because of the service-time seniority issue. No Opening Day baseball is a tough pill to swallow, as the coronavirus pandemic has pushed back the season indefinitely.

But for Aaron Judge and manager Aaron Boone, remaining optimistic is the best thing to do in these hard times.Thursday was supposed to be the day the Yankees kicked off their 2020 campaign against the Orioles down in Baltimore, so it makes sense these two took the time to tweet out their disappointment about the season not starting on time.But that doesn't mean there won't be a season at all, with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred saying on SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt on Wednesday that he hopes things can ramp up in May. The Yankees were supposed to hand the ball to new ace Gerrit Cole to face the Orioles on the road Thursday, kicking off the 2020 season on Opening Day. But Cole is going to have to wait for that start now due to the coronavirus pandemic.How long? Well there's no telling for sure.However, as SNY's Andy Martino pointed out earlier this week, MLB's current thinking is to this year. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred also appeared on SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt on Wednesday, where he said he wants to start ramping things up in May if he can. Many Yankees staff members (including manager Aaron Boone) and players have left Tampa for home to wait out the coronavirus pause, but some players (including DJ LeMahieu and Giancarlo Stanton) remain.On Wednesday, Boone - who said he has been checking in regularly with GM Brian Cashman - spoke to Yankees beat reporters to provide updates on what's been going on in Tampa and elsewhere. An update on Aaron JudgeJudge, who is, is still in ' when it comes to his cracked rib and will be re-evaluated in a few weeks.Like Giancarlo Stanton, the expectation is that Judge will be ready to go when the regular season starts no earlier than May 10.

Yankees outfielder/designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton, who was slowed by a calf injury during spring training, has progressed to the point where he'd likely be able to return to games if spring training was still going on.' If we were to start spring training games up tomorrow, he'd probably be ready to go,' manager Aaron Boone.Stanton, who has continued to prepare for the season at the club's spring training facility in Tampa , was among a group of Yankees who were hitting last week. Rays ace Blake Snell is a Cy Young winner and one of the best pitchers in the American League.

His stuff on the mound is dangerous when it's on, and the Yankees have to see him more than other teams being in the AL East.But, during a live stream on SportsCenter's Instagram, Snell began talking about hitters he actually hates to face. And one of them is Aaron Judge.Snell explained to former NBA star Richard Jefferson why he hates facing Judge, and his answer isn't just because the 6-foot-7 slugger can hit a mistake pitch from him a country mile. With new directives potentially coming from the state of Florida in their efforts to combat the spread of coronavirus, the situation at the Yankees' spring training facility in Tampa could be up in the air.It's possible that fitness centers will be closed soon in the state, with there also potentially being a shelter-in-place order from Hillsborough County, who reports that some of the players still working out at the facility are concerned about it shutting down.'

I don't know. That's something I am going to have to think about. Maybe Arizona,' Tyler Wade told Ackert about where he might go if the facility closes. 'I think a lot of guys are going out there. Hopefully, maybe since our numbers are small, I mean there's three of us, four of us in there not counting the rehab guys. They are doing their thing in the training room.

So we're never this close to each other. So hopefully it's beneficial to us.' Scott Thompson, SNY.tv There has been no update from MLB since they released their latest mandate of banning organized workouts at spring camps, as social distancing and even self-quarantining has been the norm for not just players but everyone in the country.But when things do return to normal and MLB is allowed to kick off their 2020 season - whatever that may look like - the Yankees will have a few roster decisions to make before baseball resumes.So they can during these tough times, manager Aaron Boone will have to think about issues with his roster and lineup such as. While we don't know when baseball will be back - or how long the season will be when it returns - one Yankees legend doesn't think a team winning a World Series title during a super abbreviated season should carry much weight.' I don't think you can play a 60-game season and you call yourself a champion,' Mariano Rivera said on Friday.The five-time World Series champion added: 'Anything can happen in 60 games. I don't think it's enough. People don't play on all cylinders, the whole teams are different.

I don't know. It's a great question, because I don't know what's going to happen if the season is starting in June or July.' As I write this, there was supposed to be just six days until Opening Day. However, the coronavirus pandemic has suspended the season indefinitely.MLB is doing what the rest of us are (hopefully) doing in taking the right precautions to counteract the spread of the virus. The league's latest guildelines allows players to remain at their spring facilities if they'd like, but only use of the gym and training facilites are allowed. No more organizated workouts can take place.Players like Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and others are in still there to stay active and prepare for the season, while manager Aaron Boone is among those that drove home. It's a very sensitive and surreal situation, but it's what we all have to deal with at the moment.

While giving an update on his injury status, Yankees OF Aaron Judge surprised reporters with yet another ailment he was dealing with.Judge's condition initially began as a 'minor right shoulder problem,' but turned into a stress fracture in his rib as well as shoulder pain. Now he told multiple reporters on Friday that he had, what called, pneumothorax. That's better known as a collapsed lung.It was undisclosed, but it doesn't matter now because it is 'completely gone,' said the All-Star. He is now allowed to fly if he so chooses. Though MLB players and coaches are allowed to return to their home cities if they so choose, many have found it easier to stay at their spring training facilities, including a few Yankees.Tyler Wade is one of those who has stayed in Tampa to participate in the very limited activities teams are allowed to do under MLB's guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

And he spoke to reporters on Friday about how that adjustment has been going.Wade told that he believes Tampa is 'the safest place to be.' The Yankees still have access to the gym and training facilities, but they're not allowed to have any organized group workouts, whether it is formal or informal.

Yankees infielder DJ LeMahieu was at the team's complex at Steinbrenner field again on Thursday - a day after hitting at the facility along with Giancarlo Stanton, Clint Frazier, and Tyler Wade.And LeMahieu said Thursday that his plan is to stay in Tampa for the foreseeable future., LeMahieu said being able to work out at Steinbrenner Field is keeping him 'sane' admist the coronavirus shutdown, adding that the gyms are closed in Michigan (where he lives) and the weather is better in Florida. Scott Thompson, SNY.tv The United States continues to feel the impact of coronavirus, even moreso than a week ago when MLB and the rest of the major sports leagues shut down.As of Wednesday afternoon, there were 6,519 known coronavirus cases in the U.S., with New York (1,717 confirmed cases) having the most in the country. Some cities, including San Francisco, have ordered residents to shelter in place. And New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in the city could be in early-May.Earlier this week, in accordance with CDC guidelines recommending for people to practice social distancing, than the April 9 start date.

The second week of May is now the earliest the season will start, and the wait could be much longer. Scott Thompson, SNY.tv We don't know for certain when the 2020 MLB season will get underway, as everyone's main priority is stopping the coronavirus spread throughout the country.But when it eventually does, the Yankees have a few players who need to step up big time. Or it could be a lost season.And it isn't as dramatic as it sounds. A lost season for the Yankees means not reaching the World Series because, well, that's what this stacked roster is more than capable of achieving. These catalysts, x-factors, pivot players - whatever you want to call them - are present on the Yankees depsite so much talent on the roster. On Tuesday afternoon, Major League Baseball announced that all 30 teams are donating $1 million each to assist ballpark employees affected by the delayed start to the 2020 season.' Over the past 48 hours, I have been approached by representatives of all 30 clubs to help assist the thousands of ballpark employees affected by the delay in the start of the Major League Baseball season,' Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.

'Motivated by a desire to help some of the most valuable members of the baseball community, each Club has committed $1 million. The individual clubs will be announcing more details surrounding this support effort in their local communities.' The timing of these announcements will vary because of the need to coordinate with state and local laws as well as collective bargaining obligations in an effort to maximize the benefits realized by each group of employees. I am proud that our clubs came together so quickly and uniformly to support these individuals who provide so much to the game we love.' A second Yankees minor leaguer has tested positive for coronavirus, the team confirmed on Tuesday evening.'

We can confirm that a second minor league player from our Player Development complex has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus,' the Yankees said in a team statement. 'While under self-quarantine, the player reported fatigue and an elevated body temperature to Yankees medical personnel. The test was administered on Sunday, and the player returned to self-quarantine following the positive results. We can also report that within the past 48 hours his symptoms have dissipated.' We will continue to follow all protocols and recommendations established by local and federal public health experts and Major League Baseball.' MLB is making is very hard for teams to continue their preparation for the upcoming 2020 regular season - whenever that may be - due to coronavirus precautions.

And because of that, Yankees manager Aaron Boone doesn't really see a point in staying at the team's Tampa facility.Speaking on, Boone said it 'is becoming harder and harder' for teams to have workouts due to that strongly recommends no group workouts. The team's gym and training facility is still open to players, but those informal workouts that they were participating in have since been banned.So Boone said he plans on returning to New York on either Tuesday or Wednesday, and do what the rest of us are doing: waiting. Anthony McCarron, SNY.tv After bagging Gerrit Cole on the free agent market over the winter, the expectations are sky-high for the Yankees in 2020. They've got their October lion to front a playoff rotation and the big bats to back him for what could be a deep postseason run, maybe even all the way to a ticker-tape parade.What key statistics could fuel the ride? Or derail it?

We've spent much of the spring hand-wringing over Yankee injuries (again) and while the club's roster seems deep enough for another season of subsisting on subs, who knows what will happen?Just like last year, Injured List numbers will impact the Yankees' season. While we wait for baseball to resume, let's chew on that and three other numbers that could make or break a pinstriped season: Tags:,. MLB announced Monday afternoon that Opening Day will be pushed back even further, following the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to restrict events of more than 50 people for the next eight weeks during the coronavirus pandemic.The earliest the season could kick off would now be mid-May, but MLB's statement added that the clubs remain 'committed to playing as many games as possible when the season begins.' The season had already been delayed at least two weeks, with 'social distancing' recommended over the weekend by MLB for spring training workouts for players who remain at team sites. Yankees GM Brian Cashman spoke with several reporters on Sunday to discuss a few topics, with the at the forefront.It was revealed on Sunday that a Yankees minor leaguer that hasn't been named yet tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday. Cashman said the player was immediately quarantined, and that's where he remains. After learning of the positive test, the Yankees' minor league facility was shut down at 11 a.m., per.In turn, Cashman added that the minor league facility has been shut down through March 25, and players will be getting food sent to their rooms.

Also, minor league players and staff are self-quarantining themselves, while Cashman said just one coronavirus test was administered. Like every other team around the league, the Yankees will be affected by the regarding player and staff safety due to the coronavirus.The new protocols are banning group workouts at any facility, as the league wants teams to practice 'social distancing' as best they can. Were among Yankees that got together on Saturday to put in work during an informal workout.But soon players on the 40-man roster may be told to leave the facility, just as minor leaguers have been instructed to do league-wide. The Yankees also have the, as multiple reports say a minor leaguer tested positive and was quarantined on Friday. MLB has released their latest memo regarding the safety of its players and staff members with coronavirus concerns still the top priority of the league. And their suggested guidelines are even more strict than shutting down spring training.Players have been working out at their spring training facilities despite games being cancelled as well as the delay of the regular season. But MLB really wants its players and staff members to adopt stricter use of 'social distancing,' and that would seize any group or individual workouts at camps.'

The strong recommendation from our infectious disease and public health experts is that Clubs should avoid all activities in which players congregate in significant numbers or are otherwise unable to practice the 'social distancing' protocols recommended by the CDC,' the memo read, thanks to. 'The risk of a player in a Club facility contracting the virus is real, and we must implement protocols to protect the safety and well-being of our players and staff members. In addition, we must recognize that there is the potential for further federal and state restrictions that will impact our operations, including restrictions on travel.'