He speaks with enthusiasm for the project - and says the courses he is taking have to be better "than sitting there with a can in my hand".

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"I went there, I asked questions, I walked away with nothing in my hand, " Cervelli said Wednesday, the first day of workouts for pitchers and catchers at Yankees camp.

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As he stood there with the pen in his hand, very obviously reading the badge pinned to my lapel, I found myself wanting to shake him out of the little dream he was in.

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