Tampa,FL

February 22, 2011-The Yankee camp is in full swing. The Yankees are looking good so far but we will see how good they are in their first game this Saturday against the Phillies. The game is at Stienbrenner Field in Tampa. The first pitch is at 1:30.

Positive News:

Robinson Cano worked out 6 days a week during the off-season. Even with the fact that he showed up late to camp, Cano looks ready to have a repeat season.

Alex Rodrigues lost 7 lbs in the off-season and hopes to put up better numbers

Derek Jeter hopes to have a better year after last season. Last year he had all career lows. he has met with the hitting coach, Kevin Long, about three weeks earlier than the first day of spring training to work on his swing.

Francisco Cervelli met with team mate Robinson Cano, Cano helped Cervelli with off-season training. Cano pushed Cevelli to win the competition as back up catcher,(Cervelli probably will do most of the catching)

The Yankees Universe called last season a complete fail, The Yankees seem hungry to to better. My opinion and I am a member of the Yankees Universe, I would not call last year a fail, there were some highs and lows. The pitching rotation last year was not good.....at all. The bats went quiet as the season wore on and that effected them in the playoffs.

Cliff Lee.......all I can say is its his decision the Yankees GM (Brian Cashman) should have gone after the other free agents after Lee said he would not announce his decision till December.

Bad Notes

Yankees prized left pitcher Manny Banuelos and right hander Dellin Betances will be headed for Double-A Trenton at the end of Spring Training.

Bartolo Colon, showed up to camp 25lbs overweight, his dreams to pitch in the major league will not come true this year unless he losses the weight.

To close some good news. C.C Sabathia has a third year opt-out of his contract. He said he was not going to opt-out and he was going to stay were he is in New York.

C.C Sabathia pitching in 2009