Today at 1:05 p.m. ET, the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers go head-to-head in spring training action live from Florida. The game can be live streamed here.
Adam Warren will take the hill for New York while Max Scherzer makes his spring debut and mans the mound for the Tigers. Warren went 3-2 with a 3.39 ERA for the Yankees last season while Scherzer is the 2013 American League Cy Young Award winner and had a league-leading 21 wins with eight losses alongside a 2.90 ERA last season.
The Yankees continue to show off their offseason imports as centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury will leadoff, rightfielder Carlos Beltran will bat third and Brian McCann will hit cleanup and play behind the plate
Ellsbury hit .298 with nine homers and 53 RBIs and led the MLB with 52 stolen bases for the World Series champion Boston Red Sox while Beltran hit .296 with 24 homers and 84 RBIs for the St. Louis Cardinals-who lost to the Red Sox in the World Series. McCann hit .256 with 20 homers and 57 RBIs for the Atlanta Braves last year.
After going 0-for-2 in Thursday's game, Derek Jeter will sit in favor of Brendan Ryan as he continues the final spring training of his career.
Jeter said he realizes how important he is to the team even this late in his career.
"I've always been an important part of the team," Jeter said, after the Yankees dropped an 8-2 decision to the Pirates via the New York Post. "I've never gone into the season thinking I wasn't important. I understand that my job is important. If I ever felt that I wasn't important, then I would have left a long time ago."
The Yankees and Tigers go head-to-head in spring training action this afternoon in Florida.
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