Yanks make a few cuts and try to figure out their pitching schedule

The New York Yankees are in a little bit of a mess. The reason they are in a mess is because of the rainout today. The Yankees have 7 pitchers who need to pitch and only 9 innings against a major league team tomorrow. They have been calling around to see if they could find another team to play a split squad tomorrow. Another option they may have is to play against one of the minor league teams. They may also play a B game at home tomorrow. Joe Girardi had this to say "It's a mess kinda, we don't have it completely ironed out. Right now, it's a little pain in the rear." A.J. Burnett, Andy Pettitte, Joba Chamberlain, Phil Hughes, Mariano Rivera, Chan Ho Park and Damaso Marte all need to throw. The Yankees have a scheduled off day on Tuesday but Girardi said that wouldn't solve the problem because they are trying to keep everyone on schedule or as close to it as possible. My guess is they find a team who will play a split squad tomorrow and everyone will get their work in, if no one will cooperate then they will probably play a B game at home and they will still get their work in. I think it is less of a problem with a veteran team. The cuts that took place today were Jesus Montero, Austin Romine, Colin Curtis and Reid Gorecki. They are all headed to the minor league complex. I am not sure if I will be able to get more information later about what is going on with the schedule but if I do I will post it on here, if not I will have something tomorrow. Enjoy this beautiful day everyone and pretty soon we will have baseball again. UPDATE: 3:45PM-The Yankees will play a intrasquad game at home tomorrow. Here is how the pitching will work. One of the teams will have Andy Pettitte, Mariano Rivera and Damaso Marte and they will go against the other team who will have Joba Chamberlain, Chan Ho Park and Dave Robertson. The rest of the team will head to Clearwater to face the Phillies, A.J. Burnett will start that game with Phil Hughes coming on in relief.

Grapefruit League Games 6 and 7(split squad)Yankees at Pirates and Phillies at Yankees

The New York Yankees will play 2 split squad games today. They will play at home against the Phillies and at the Pirates. There aren't too many notes yet this morning, Mariano Rivera and Damaso Marte did throw batting practice this morning. They each had no issues and will throw bullpens on Thursday. Mariano Rivera is now scheduled to get into a game on March 17th which is a 7PM home game against the Astros. Chan Ho Park was also supposed to throw today but he was out with what Joe Girardi called a sore glute. This invokes bad memories of Carl Pavano but we will see what happens. If the Yankees are really relying on Chan Ho Park they will be in trouble so I wouldn't worry about that so much. I should have information on Francisco Cervelli later on this afternoon or evening. Here are the 2 Yankee lineups for todays games. Yankees Lineup(Home vs Phillies) Gardner(CF) Johnson(DH) Teixeira(1B) Posada(C) Cano(2B) Swisher(RF) Thames(LF) Russo(3B) Pena(SS) Javier Vazquez makes his first start of the spring. He is scheduled to be followed by Mark Melancon, Royce Ring, and Dave Robertson. Yankees Lineup(Road vs Pirates) Jeter(SS) Granderson(CF) Winn(RF) Rodriguez(3B) Miranda(1B) Rivera(C) Hoffman(LF) Pilittere(DH) Corona(2B) Alfredo Aceves makes the start. He is scheduled to be followed by Jeremy Bleich, Zach McAllister, Grant Duff and Ivan Nova.