TAMPA — The Cousins cousins had a household reunion Saturday at Yankees camp.
Veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins got here to Steinbrenner Discipline to go to relative and Yankees reliever Jake Cousins, and to make the rounds earlier than taking in a recreation towards the Astros.
Whereas the quarterback-needy Giants and Jets may use one like Kirk Cousins, it stays to be seen whether or not the Falcons will reduce him this offseason earlier than the second season of a four-year, $180 million deal and set Michael Penix Jr. as their starter going ahead.
Jake Cousins, who is ready to start out a throwing program Monday after being shut down for 5 weeks with a forearm pressure, wouldn’t thoughts having his cousin across the New York space.
“That’d be cool because typically it’s hard for us to see each other’s events or be in the same area, just because we’re opposite seasons and kind of overlap,” he stated just lately. “So if we’re in the same area, it’d be cool to see each other more often.”
Clarke Schmidt threw one inning of dwell batting apply Saturday for the primary time since coping with a cranky again final week.
It was the primary time that the right-hander has confronted hitters since camp began, although he had thrown dwell a number of instances earlier than spring coaching started.
“He looked awesome,” supervisor Aaron Boone stated. “Not surprising, right? I called balls and strikes for it and it was really good. He was sharp, electric.”
Schmidt threw about 20 pitches, together with strikeouts of Oswaldo Cabrera and Trent Grisham.
If he bounces again from this session nicely, he’s anticipated to throw another earlier than stepping into recreation motion.
Ben Rice continued to make noise on the plate, drilling a house run that got here off the bat at 113.3 mph.
After including some muscle within the offseason, the catcher/first baseman has been noticeably hitting balls more durable this spring.
The Yankees made their first spherical of cuts from large league camp Saturday, reassigning RHP Sean Boyle, OF Brennen Davis, RHP Chase Hampton, RHP Cristian Hernández, LHP Jayvien Sandridge, RHP Kevin Stevens, RHP Leonardo Pestana and C Omar Martinez to minor league camp.
Jen Pawol, a New Jersey native who performed softball at Hofstra, was the house plate umpire Saturday. Pawol spent final season umpiring at Triple-A.
“I actually went up and introduced myself there later in the game,” Boone stated. “Had a nice interplay along with her. She has a superb popularity.
“I thought she missed a couple calls on the captain in that first [inning],” Boone added with a smile, “but overall I thought she did a good job. Certainly enjoyed my introduction to her.”
