Greg Bird was back in familiar territory Saturday afternoon, roaming around George M. Steinbrenner Field and flashing his easy power in batting practice.
But the first baseman also had long hair, a beard and good health — the first two of which he never had with the Yankees and the third not often enough.now trying to make his major league comeback with the Blue Jays
. He signed a minor league deal with an invite to big league camp earlier this month, and appears to have a shot at making Toronto’s Opening Day roster. “You always think [what if],” Bird said of his Yankees tenure before crushing a two-run homer in Saturday’s exhibition. “But you look back on the past and learn from it, not dwell on it. It’s fun to reminisce and talk about. I’ll forever hold memories that I had with [Aaron Judge] and other guys. But it happened the way it happened and you can’t change it. We had fun and I’m looking forward to watching him play and playing against him now.
Judge described Bird as one of the best hitters he has played with — “I still believe that,” the Yankees slugger said Saturday — but Bird’s time in The Bronx was derailed by injuries. There was the surgery for a torn labrum that sidelined him for all of 2016, plus ankle and foot injuries that limited him to just 140 games from 2017-2019.
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