The two outfielders then tested out their new positions in fielding drills later that day.
"The good thing about pretty much all of our outfielders is that we're pretty much athletes, " Wells said.
Musicians stood onstage noodling on their instruments with the languid air of outfielders warming up in the sun.
So Girardi was able to play all four of his regular outfielders Tuesday: Granderson, Gardner, Vernon Wells and Ichiro Suzuki.
Outfielders fidgeted as they awkwardly caught lazily arcing balls that were hit too high to sail out of the park.
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And I can tell you right now there are five outfielders in this room that probably disagree with their opinion.
Two other key parts, outfielders Curtis Granderson and Nick Swisher, are major power threats but also inconsistent all around players.
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We saw short fly balls routinely drop in front of outfielders that McCarver had noted just moments earlier were playing too deep.
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The parameters were rather basic in nature: seven starting pitchers, two closers, two catchers, seven infielders, seven outfielders, two coaches and one manager.
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Several other regulars--infielders Troy Tulowitzki, Clint Barmes and Garrett Atkins, plus outfielders Brad Hawpe, Seth Smith, Dexter Fowler and Ryan Spilborghs--are homegrown draft picks.
With the Dodgers playing five infielders and two shallow outfielders, Valdespin drove a 2-1 pitch to right for the first game-ending RBI of his career.
In the last 50 years, just 10 teams have had three or more outfielders with at least 300 plate appearances who were worth zero marginal wins apiece.
"There's a perception that we're in on a couple dozen starting pitchers, three dozen outfielders and infielders, 17, 18 catchers, " GM Ned Colletti said during the winter meetings.
Going around the diamond, other members of our all bottom-line team include catcher Paul Lo Duca, infielders Mark Loretta and Sean Casey, and outfielders Milton Bradley and Shannon Stewart.
Having that many outfielders who are that useless is a problem in its own right, but also a symptom of something else, like an inability to develop or acquire certain kinds of talent.
The Yankees are couching it as an experiment and say nothing is final, but unless something goes drastically wrong over the next month, this is how the Yankees will deploy their outfielders in 2013.
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